pinyin: māma qí mǎ, mǎ màn, māma mà mǎ; lit. 'Mother is riding a horse, the horse is slow, mother scolds the horse'. Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den: poem of 92 characters, all with the sound shi (in four different tones) when read in Modern Standard Mandarin Although at first glance the single character sentence 子子子子子子子子子子子子 does not seem to make sense, when this sentence is read using the right readings of the kanji 子 (in the example it only borrowed the pronunciation but the meaning of the Logograms, like Man'yōgana), it means "the young of cat, kitten, and the young of lion, cub". It is told in the work Ujishūi Monogatari that the Japanese poet Ono no Takamura used this reading to escape death. Jedli na hoře bez holí, meaning either "they ate Elderberries on a mountain using a