What do the Dutch and Chinese have in common? Both call penguins „goose.“ The Dutch use the term „fat goose“ (vetgans is a synonym for penguin in Dutch). The Chinese see the cute, flightless seabirds as „geese standing on their tiptoes,“ at least that’s what the Chinese term 企鹅 qǐ’é for „penguin“ suggests (企 qǐ means, among other things, „standing on tiptoes,“ 鹅 é is the Chinese character for „goose“).