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Offline angryChineseKahanist

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YouTai
« on: January 17, 2010, 12:31:00 AM »
Chinese people refer to Jews as "You Tai".
Anyone have any idea why? Or where it came from?
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Re: YouTai
« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2010, 12:54:50 AM »
It's a Chinese transliteration of Judah/Yehudah as far as I know, so it becomes You Tai Ren (Judah/Yehudah person [or people]). I might be wrong, but this is what I've read in the past.

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Re: YouTai
« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2010, 01:01:01 AM »
So probably Judah, Ju-dah was passed from one mouth to another and finally recorded as YouTai.
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Re: YouTai
« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2010, 01:04:21 AM »
It's possible, but I don't know. Jews have a long history in China, going back to at least the Han Dynasty (2nd century BCE to 2nd century CE):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_China
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Now we must honour the Guardian of Heaven,
the might of the Architect, and His purpose,
the work of the Father of Glory-as He, the Eternal Lord, established the beginning of wonders. He, the Holy Creator, first created heaven as a roof
for the children of men. Then the Guardian of Mankind the Eternal Lord, the Lord Almighty
afterwards appointed the middle earth, the lands, for men.

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Re: YouTai
« Reply #4 on: January 17, 2010, 09:00:42 AM »
I may be wrong, but I have read somewhere that it may be an abbreviation of the original Sanskrit name attributed to them in China as "Yuddha Deo" or "Juddha Deo", which literally translates as "War Lord" or "Lord of War".
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Re: YouTai
« Reply #5 on: January 17, 2010, 09:12:14 AM »
Wo Shi He Lan Ren.
Islam Shi Da Bian.
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