What does "zhuno" mean?

[GeoffH]

I have the impression that the word "zhuno" (probably pronounced a little bit like a cross between "choono" and "juno") means something in Chinese or Japanese...

Is there anyone who knows this word, and whether it is an official Latin alphabet translation, and, can anyone give a direct translation?

Thank you

GH

ps. oh... and hello everyone, nice to meet you. I actually started learning Thai before i started learning Chinese but I'm sure I will learn Chinese at some point when I go back over to Asia

[chueggroll]

Well acording to my chinese teacher in means Bad fungshui or unlucky.

[skylee]

In standard mandarin, whose pronunciation is now commonly expressed in Hanyu Pinyin, "no" and "choo" do not exist.

豬玀 (zhu luo) is a curse word meaning swine.

[Lu]

Where did you hear this word, what's the context?

[GeoffH]

Where did you hear this word, what's the context?

Hey, you know how hard it is to get readable 5 letter domains?

As soon as I saw that the domain was available I got interested and started finding out what it was but I grabbed it before I really knew what it meant. most of the available 5 letter domains are not even remotely readable. kdbtf.com is available if anyone wants it... thought not

I was hoping that maybe it didn't mean much at all maybe, the fact that it maybe means unlucky or bad Fung shui is possibly an indication why it was not taken by a Chinese person; nearly all (if not all) of the similar domains were taken and most lead to east Asian sites. I thought maybe I got lucky and someones subscription had run out on it or they didn't want it anymore. Maybe they died from bad luck after buying the domain.

No point in going to the site by the way - its just silliness at the moment.

GH

[creamyhorror]

There's no reason to trust chueggroll's definitions since "zhuno" isn't even a valid word in Mandarin pinyin, the main romanization system. That's almost certainly the real reason why no Chinese person took the site. It's also not valid in Japanese roomaji, by the way.

[Lu]

Perhaps you could sell it to some Taiwanese :-p

And creamyhorror is right, this is not a word in pinyin, so most Chinese wouldn't be interested. (Although 'sina' isn't much of a word either in pinyin.)

[foodtarget]

"zhuno" isn't even a valid word in Mandarin pinyin, the main romanization system. That's almost certainly the real reason why no Chinese person took the site

A website name doesn't have to be written in standard pinyin. Just like English advertisements/websites sometimes use alternate spellings (thru, nite, etc.), Chinese websites can use alternate pinyin spellings. The Chinese site joyo.com (Joyo is supposed to represent 卓越) comes to mind, although as of last year it has become Chinese Amazon.

http://en.wikipedia.org./wiki/Joyo.com

[中文的力量]

I think that zhuno is a type of gun in japanese 銃の or じゅの see wikipedia http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%8A%83%E3%81%AE%E9%83%A8%E5%93%81

If it's not that, i think it's a japanese word, because zhunno sounds japanese or maybe korean but I don't know well the language yet to advance something.

[中文的力量]

Ｈｅｒｅ　ｉｓ　ａ　ｌｉｓｔ　ｏｆ　ｗｏｒｄｓ　ｉｎ　ｊａｐａｎｅｓｅ　ｔｈａｔ　ａｒｅ　ｐｒｏｎｏｕｎｃｅ　ＺＨＵＮＯ

樹の

壽の

順の

淳の

ジュンの

ジュノ

[skylee]

中文的力量, splendid advice.

[中文的力量]

lol it's just a nickname...

[foodtarget]

Ｈｅｒｅ　ｉｓ　ａ　ｌｉｓｔ　ｏｆ　ｗｏｒｄｓ　ｉｎ　ｊａｐａｎｅｓｅ　ｔｈａｔ　ａｒｅ　ｐｒｏｎｏｕｎｃｅ　ＺＨＵＮＯ

I couldn't find ジュノ in the dictionary, and 樹の and 壽の are not pronounced like "zhuno". Since "zhuno" is clearly not standard romaji, the original poster could be referring to a word that is actually spelled with elongated vowels in the first syllable, second syllable, or both (juuno, junou, juunou) and could possibly have double N's as well. I have no idea if all those combinations actually produce real words, but I guess a few of them do. And also, the first sound could potentially be a "ch" and not a "j". So there is a potentially long list of random Japanese words that could fit the vague description "zhuno".

[中文的力量]

yes it's true, i agree...

[imron]

the original poster could be referring to a word that is actually spelled with elongated vowels

No, it would appear that the original poster came across a random collection of 5 letters that hadn't yet been sold as a domain name and thought it might mean something in some language somewhere (with Japanese and Chinese being his first choice). The fact that it could be twisted and possibly interpreted as a word in those languages doesn't change the fact that it's not actually a word in those languages.

[creamyhorror]

No, it would appear that the original poster came across a random collection of 5 letters that hadn't yet been sold as a domain name and thought it might mean something in some language somewhere (with Japanese and Chinese being his first choice). The fact that it could be twisted and possibly interpreted as a word in those languages doesn't change the fact that it's not actually a word in those languages.

I was just about to say this. Clearly the OP was just recalling (or imagining) that he'd heard "some word like that" before and so snapped the domain name up. Taking it seriously like some people have done is just a waste of time, at least until the OP can provide a single real detail about the "word" he apparently remembers.

[foodtarget]

Yes, that does seem more likely. Well I guess "zhuno" must be an actual word in one of the worlds 6000+ languages just by coincidence....

[Lu]

Google gives this thread as the first result, but also this site that appears to be in a language that contains the word 'zhuno'. Now the OP only needs to figure out what language that is :-)

Google also finds two people named Zhuno, if they are ever in need of a website the OP could sell it to them.

[中文的力量]

Now the OP only needs to figure out what language that is :-)

It's de language of Maldives

[Lu]

The language of the Maldives is called Dhivedi and looks rather different than what can be seen on that site. Why do you think that is Dhivedi?