>>>Or simply not bearing in mind that a building with a square footprint
>>>has four sides. :)
>
>There are four sides to that part of the tower. We only know from the
>text provided that it says PHOENIX HOUSE HOTEL in Standard on one of
>them. It's entirely possible - in fact, likely - that the name is
>rendered in Tongyu on at least two of the remaining three.

In fact, the Phoenix House Hotel is named in Standard on one side, Tongyu on the two sides adjacent to it, and in Kokugo (the original spoken and written language of the Fire Nation before Tongyu supplanted it internationally) on the side opposite of the Standard label, since the building was partially built by Fire Nation interests.

Kokugo also shows up more frequently in the Little Fire Nation neighborhood of Republic City, as well as in the Little Zipang neighborhood (where it's often mistaken for that foreign "Japanese" language).

--- Philip

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