homonym

This is because POE and Poe are homonyms, which means they are two different words that are pronounced the same way.

Another popular hashtag they use is “address book,” a near homonym for “homosexual” in Chinese, which has also spawned the offshoot keywords “female notebook” or “male notebook.”

“This is really problematic,” Trinkle says, pointing out a word that has a homonym with a similar definition.

The other constant is a sticky rice cake or nian gao, a homonym for "grow higher every year".

It’s also a linguistic pun: the Mandarin word for “dust,” chén, is a homonym for the word “old.”