I've been "choosing to live," so to speak, for about 20 years now. It really feels like 2 steps forward 1 step back for me. Life's been dicking me over the past few months and I'm doing the worst I've been doing for the past few years. It really feels like life sucks from the macro scale to the micro.
I want to add that even today, it's the convention to refer to foreign names using the closest sounding Chinese characters. 華盛頓 is simply how George Washington would be referred to in Chinese today. Which character is used can also vary depending on the dialect/language used because it is pronunciation based, and the different dialect/language are pronounced differently (duh).
Trump, for example, is 特朗普 dak6 long5 pou2 in Cantonese and 川普 Chuān pǔ in Mandarin.
Biden is the same for both, 拜登 baai3 dang1 in Cantonese and Bài dēng in Mandarin.
A lot of them aren't common words at all. A lot of them with the 金 radical are probably names of elements. At random I looked up 釷 and it's the name for Thorium lol
The Meiji era American warrior's most priced weapon is the six shooter. The most famous one, the Big Iron, is said to have slain a legendary outlaw called Texas Red.
Aw man, she's great in Schitt's Creek