Hoarding and Butt have homophonic characters in Mandarin?

Premier Su Tseng-chang took to his social media accounts in cartoon form this week to warn against panic-buying toilet paper.

“We only have one butt, don’t hoard, don’t trust rumors,” the post read.

Once again, a clever homophone was deployed. In Mandarin, the first characters for “hoard” and “butt” are pronounced the same

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Once again, a clever homophone was deployed. In Mandarin, the first characters for “hoard” (囤積)and “butt” (臀部)are pronounced the same

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Thank you :cool:

Was staring at this real hard trying to figure out how these characters are homophobic :doh:

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