On Tue, 13 Aug 1996, Jack Ji wrote:

On Tue, 13 Aug 1996, Wing wrote:

AiRen means Lover. Ai=Love. Ren=person/human.  

Yeah, isn't Chinese so simple?  ^_^

*smiles* husband is umm... Logong. ;) (No, it's not spelled right for
this. I don't know my pinyin. ^_^;;;)

My parents always use xian shung. But that also 
means "mister," and "sir."  I think lao gong is 
right because gong means male in chinese. Lao 
pua means wife. But that's old. My parents just 
use tai tai (means great, great) for wife. 
Besides "lao" means old in CHinese.                            

	From what I've heard, "airen" is commonly used to mean "spouse" 
in mainland China.

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