And as far as Chinese goes? It's a fucked up language to begin with.
OOh! OOh! As someone who's powerleveled about studying chinese before, let me drop some anecdotes:
1. How do you pronounce "行", and what does it mean?
These are a few that come off the top of my head (n.b. I can't type in Phonetic notation):
-hang meaning a row. Also used in the chinese word for bank
-xing, meaning "ok" or to travel
-heng meaning skill
While this might be the most atrocious example I can think of, there are many other cases:
wikipedia said:
In Standard Chinese, one-fifth of the 2,400 most common characters have multiple possible pronunciations
2. "Lion eating poet in the stone den"
It's a story, consisting of about 90 chinese words, all pronounced some variation of "shi"