The name is a portmanteau (smooshing-together) of the “interdigitate”, which means ‘to be locked together like one’s fingers when the hands are folded’. The latter term is, we must confess, one that was made up by a member of the LanGo team (if anyone knows a more orthodox name for these things, please get in touch!). Here we show our favorite examples of Chinese ambigrams (see Figure 8), as well as some Chinese-English interdigigrams. Now that’s awesome (x 2)!Ĭhinese Ambigrams and Chinese-English Interdigigrams
When these images are flipped upside-down, they will read the same way.
Here are two more English ambigrams we really enjoy: “Blessing” in Figure 3 and “awesome” in Figure 4. If having fun with language is something you hate, please do not read this post! English Ambigrams Practicing and memorizing are important, even indispensable skills to us as language-learners but wordplay lets us take a step back, loosen up and have some fun while we apply the knowledge we have acquired. In the ones we’re calling “crossings”, we’ll see cases where two distinct writing systems overlap (see Figures 6, 7, and 12), while “interdigigram” is our term for writing in which two systems interdigitate, or alternate like the fingers of one’s hands when brought together (Figures 9 to 11).īut most importantly, ambigrams and wordplay are a way of having fun! Playing with words (whether made of sound or written marks) allows us to flex our linguistic muscles with more enjoyment than we tend to get from drills or rote memorization. We also present several other kinds of cross-language wordplay for the same aim, including dual-writing-system “crossings” and “interdigigrams”. In this post, we present a team-compiled list of several of our favorite English ambigrams as well as some excellent cross-linguistic ambigrams to help learners of other languages (e.g., Korean, Chinese, French, German, Hindu, and Urdu) learn new words in a creative way. We LanGoers love ambigrams not only because we appreciate fun and imaginative wordplay, but they can also be great visual mnemonics for vocabulary in your target language. the same image now spells the word “holiday”! In some examples below, we’ll see that the two readings (or ‘messages’) conveyed by an ambigram need not be in a single language.
In Figure 2, viewed one way, the written marks spell the word “happy”.
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