On Apr 28, 8:08 pm, cha bing wrote:
On Apr 28, 11:51 am, Space Cowboy wrote:

I guess. Another li4 character without the grass radical on top means
sharp. You find that character using the dao radical on the right
which is the downstroke and hooked downstroke.

Jim

The "Li" character on my tea packaging is the "Li4" that means sharp.
According to three different dictionaries I have (all from mainland),
the "Li" used in the word "jasmine" is the same as the "Li4" that
means "sharp", except with the grass ("cao") radical. Both "li"'
characters appear to use that "Dao" radical within them, except I
guess it is not the "radical" when the grass radical is on top.

Since we've gone this far into a Chinese discussion (it would be a lot
easier if I could just post a picture of the character, but this has
given me a great excuse to pull out old chinese text books), the "li"
on my packaging contains the grass, or "Cao" radical on top
(simplified form), the growing grain, or "He" radical on the lower
left (similar to the tree radical, only with a slanted line on top),
and the knife, or "Dao" radical on the lower right. It almost looked
like, in the packaging you sent that the lower left in some writings
of "Li" could use what I understand to be a "wei" character (meaning
"not, no") instead of the "he" character. Due to the font, I can't
tell which one babelcarp uses.

Interestingly, neither "Mo" nor "Li" appear to have any independent
meaning. Anyone know why they are used together for the word
"jasmine" (e.g., is the word is a phonetic approximation of a foreign
word), or is that just the way the word is written?

-Charles

"Moli" is probably a chinese phonetic approximation of the south/
southeast asian terms for Jasmine. Jasmine is called "Chameli" in
Hindi, "Melipu" in Tamil, and depending on where in Indonesia "Meulu"
or "Melati".

Just a matter of curiousity, why don't you by the dried chrysanthemum
and green tea separately and blend your own flower tea?

Just a matter of curiousity, why don't you by the dried chrysanthemum
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Well, I never actually found the dried chrysanthemums. The "tea" I had
with chrysanthemums was just the dried flowers, no actual tea. I'm
sure you can purchase them online somewhere, but I was in the store
and just looking through their tea selection to see what I could find.
I understand dried chrysanthemums to be good for your stomach and my
wife was feeling a bit off at the time.