Merry Christmas!

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Artist: "Malcolm" 

I can't forget you.

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Artist: David Liu 

[The character on the inside of the border stands for 'dream' (mong, meng4)]
"I made this for my .plan."

You're a pig!  [Here's one to send to your close friends.]

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Contributed by: Nirgalli 

"Here are 2 that my friend gave me. Maybe you have had it, but it doesn't hurt
that I send them again, right?"  [Not at all...]

Character for "Pig" (C: joo; M: zhu1)

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Contributed by: leizhou xu 

[Here's a parital translation by Zane Au ]
"The 4 characters mean: Dark, Cloud, That, Haunt (v.)"

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Contributed by: Si Burton 

Happy birthday (C: Sang yet fai lok; M: sheng1 ri4 kuai4 le4)

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Artist: Liza Chu (lchu@u.washington.edu)

"It literally means "add gas", but generally it means "increase motivation"
or "more strength" (sorry for the poor translation)"  [It's all right :)]
(Cant: g...

From: zaneau@hk.net (Zane Au)

Thinking of you (C: seung nei; M: xiang2 ni3)

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Artist: David Liu 

"I was also going to submit the following "poem" for Dan's first compilation,
but I couldn't find it.  Well, here it is, an early entry for Version 2.  I
wrote it for a friend in H...

Artist: William Sawyer Grant 

"This is the remains of my other sig file but too many people responded to
it!  So I had to change it to the current version."
[Will's new sig is in the sig section towa...

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Artist: Unknown

How are you? (Cant: Nei ho; Mand: ni2 hao3)

The following is an excerpt of a collection of Chinese characters
by D. C. Au (dcau@casbah.acns.nwu.edu).

See the original site at:
http://pubweb.acns.nwu.edu/~dcau/

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mandarin|    Xin           nian          Hao
english |    new           year         happy
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hope those who don't know chinese don't mind. my surname, "yip" in
cantonese and "ye (4)" in mandarin, has the meaning of "leaf". i
incorporated "leaves" in the second and third attempts. share with a...

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