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by dathinab 1978 days ago
It's not that simple, depending on the Mandarin writing it can also refer to "essence" and probably some other things.

It's appearing in traditional Chinese medicine and seems to be a fairly important concept there.

It also seems to be used as a name.

So Jing is a fairly wide spread well known mandarin word but a Jing + OS + wrong pronoun-cation sounds similar to a not that widely known english word which seems to have gone out of fashion quite a while ago...

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Yes, you know a lot about Chinese. But the Jing of JingOS means Whale specifically. You can check here: https://www.jingos.com/about/