Another explanation for Cantonese people’s preference of “pig” zyu1 may be that it is a homphone of 珠 “pearl” Examples include Zyu1 hoi2 (city), Hoi2 zyu1 (a district in Guangzhou), and 'Zyu1 Gong1' (the Pearl River). Among our grandmother's generation, many girls were also given names with 'Zhu' i