However, when morpheme boundaries come into play, vowel length can sometimes distinguish otherwise homophonous words. Jeong can be written with either of three homophonous hanja. The Korean family name Seol can be written with either of two homophonous hanja. "Jiajie" () are characters that are "borrowed" to write another homophonous or near-homophonous morpheme. Therefore, the average number of homophonous characters per syllable is six. In these varieties, "mayor" is pronounced , homophonous with "mare". Because there are so many, they are excluded from the list of homophonous pairs below. Tianlong is homophonous with another name in Chinese folklore. "Chiwen" is alternatively written , using the homophonous character (). It was also homophonous with "links", suggesting connectivity. A homophonous translation into Hebrew was composed in 2007 by Ghil'ad Zuckermann. Moreover, gala is homophonous with gal-la "vulva". As a result, the words "met" and "mate" are homophonous as . Any unit with this property is said to be "homophonous". Stopping of initial , however, is frequent making "then" homophonous with "den".