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Jan 8	comment	How would one accurately translate “万事大吉”? 万 can be more accurately translated as "myriad", which also means 10,000 but more often is used to refer to a large multitude in English; this usage is coincidentally very similar to that of Chinese 万.
Jan 3	revised	How does foreign word transliteration work in the context of Cantonese vs Mandarin? Add Mandarin pinyin and Cantonese Yale romanizations
Dec 22	awarded	Yearling
Oct 2	comment	Locale pronunciations of standard mandarin This previous question may also be relevant: Characteristics of Northern and Southern accents
Sep 25	revised	Taiwanese Mandarin vs Mainland Mandarin Add tags and change title to clarify topic
Sep 25	revised	Does tone sandhi apply to 成语 edited tags
Sep 25	revised	我(也)很好 and tone sandhi edited tags
Sep 25	suggested	suggested edit on Taiwanese Mandarin vs Mainland Mandarin
Sep 25	comment	What's the subject of this sentence? To give a little more background, Chinese is an example of a null-subject language where the subject of a sentence can be omitted when it is evident from context who or what the subject is. Not only that, but Chinese is also a pro-drop language, meaning that even objects can be omitted when the context is clear.
Sep 25	answered	Taiwanese Mandarin vs Mainland Mandarin
Sep 7	revised	Authoritative source for 一 changing to 4th tone before 1st, 2nd or 3rd deleted 261 characters in body
Sep 7	revised	Pronunciation of 一 in 一个 edited tags
Sep 7	revised	Authoritative source for 一 changing to 4th tone before 1st, 2nd or 3rd Change link to Google Books link
Sep 7	revised	Authoritative source for 一 changing to 4th tone before 1st, 2nd or 3rd Add quote regarding pinyin
Sep 7	answered	Authoritative source for 一 changing to 4th tone before 1st, 2nd or 3rd
Sep 1	suggested	suggested edit on How were Chinese characters taught to Chinese children before the introduction of pinyin?
Aug 31	revised	How were Chinese characters taught to Chinese children before the introduction of pinyin? The English Wikipedia link is probably more useful for the questioner.
Aug 31	suggested	suggested edit on How were Chinese characters taught to Chinese children before the introduction of pinyin?
Aug 31	comment	How were Chinese characters taught to Chinese children before the introduction of pinyin? Even Bopomofo is a modern invention though (introduced in the 1910s according to Wikipedia). For centuries, 反切 was the way dictionaries indicated pronunciation, as dda indicated in his answer.
Aug 29	comment	How to describe differences between Cantonese and Mandarin? @Krazer: jogloran is correct; the existence of glottal stops is only related to null onsets. Refer to Modern Cantonese Phonology, p. 550: "Cantonese syllables such as aː, aːm, and ok can be regarded as beginning with zero-initial, even though syllables of this kind may actually begin with a glottal stop [ʔ]; because glottal stop in syllable-initial position is not a contrastive speech sound (or phoneme) in Cantonese, it is still classified as zero-initial."