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The elder brother's name is "Tikki Tikki Tembo-no Sa Rembo-chari Bari Ruchi-pip Peri Pembo", which is not Chinese, but the book claims means "The most wonderful thing in the whole wide world," and the youngest is "Chang", which apparently is Chinese, but does not actually mean "little" or "nothing". According to the Internet, "Chang" means "constant" or "often", but depending on the intonation, can mean a lot of things, including "long" and "great" (as in "The Great Wall of China"), so kind of the opposite of "little".

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