iSudoku
Today I stumbled upon a Sudoku website that has interesting and clever Chinese IDNs. Simplified Chinese 爱数独.中国 Traditional Chinese 愛數獨.中國 Both 爱数独 and 愛數獨 mean Love(s) Sudoku . The website concerns an App called iSudoku. Now to the clever part. 数独 and 數獨 mean Sudoku. 爱 and 愛 mean love. The romanization of 爱 and 愛 in both Chinese and Japanese is ai . The pronunciation of ai in both Chinese and Japanese is i . Thus iSudoku becomes 爱数独 or 愛數獨. But what of the Japanese form of Love(s) Sudoku ? In Japanese Kanji this would 愛数独. Well Huáng Jīng (黄晶) has already thought of this. 愛数独.中国 redirects to the Simplified Chinese address 爱数独.中国. I am totally impressed. This adds a whole new dimension to the i prefix used by Apple. iPhone becomes Love Phone , iPad becomes Love Pad , iPod becomes Love Pod and iWork becomes Love Work ...etc... ☺