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by travisgriggs 1320 days ago
When I saw the headline, I figured this was something out of the University of Washington, and therefore named after my home state of Washington. :)

It obviously is not. What does “wa” mean in Chinese? Or is it really just (w)eb (a)ssembly?

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"wa" is the pronunciation of "凹"

Chinese is a kind of hieroglyph. The shape of "凹" is very similar to the logo of this project, and it looks like the letter "C" rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise. So it maybe means a C/Coder that lies down.