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What is the literal translation of this: 摊主是位上了年纪、身材瘦小的老人?

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How to input Chinese character partially?

rinn玲

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How to literally translate this: 看完连书带钱交给摊主?

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On the Chinese translation of some words "by" Christopher Columbus

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How to translate "开口呼、齐齿呼、合口呼、撮口呼" to English?

ming alex

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answered 12 hours ago

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Need help identifying this signature chop? wondering about meaning, age, history? (Characters identified: 彝齋)

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When did 民權 enter the Chinese language?

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Placement of 了 in 停在了离小岛不太远的地方

r13

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What's up with these bizarre noodle cooking instructions?

rinn玲

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How is this special paper for calligraphic works called in Chinese? And what is it originally made of?

rinn玲

141

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Is 认 related to 人?

Yue Yuan

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What are the Chinese words which are valid in Scrabble?

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What do these Asian Characters and Stamp Means?

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Is 结尾 a (separable) verb?

r13

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Does “XX是什么样的人？” refer mostly, and maybe only, to personality?

r13

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Is this sentence correct 很多人需开始工作得帮家

PdotWang

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Help understand this: 每本小人书都用牛皮纸加了层封皮，封皮上用毛笔写上书名

user2249675

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modified 2 days ago

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what does 如今年至及笄 mean?

Yue Yuan

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Why do the news report use 某?

Tang Ho♦

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How to compare the syllable structures of Chinese with Hangul?

PdotWang

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How do I know whether or not a character can be used separately?

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How are the sentences 我第一次挑战这么高难度的手术 and 这么高难度的手术我第一次挑战 grammatical? Where are the verbs?

Yue Yuan

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answered 2 days ago

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Who do 五尺童子 and 而屠戮 refer to here?

Ludi

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modified Dec 8 at 19:18

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What does "現代修真" mean?

Yue Yuan

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modified Dec 8 at 17:35

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Need help understanding: "人生要就不忍，不然就請你一忍到底。"

Yue Yuan

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answered Dec 8 at 16:49

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How to literally translate this: 会因为费用增加而让投资人不高兴?

r13

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modified Dec 7 at 20:34

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This is on the bottom of a bronze vase (Characters identified: 萬歷秊製)

Tang Ho♦

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modified Dec 7 at 3:08

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What doe these three seals mean?

Diesel

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modified Dec 7 at 2:57

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What are these two Cantonese words that mean "picky" ? They sound like 哦過 or 屙裹

Tang Ho♦

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modified Dec 6 at 21:49

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Repetition of the first verb (separable verbs)

PdotWang

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modified Dec 6 at 15:46

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How to parse 各在鏡腿上綹兩把

Sh.RYAN

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answered Dec 6 at 15:05

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List of components with their meanings published by a reliable source

joehua

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answered Dec 6 at 14:25

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What is the latest official document that describes simplification of radicals?

user2249675

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answered Dec 5 at 14:16

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Why "again" is expressed differently in the present and in the past. (又 and 再)

Michaelyus

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answered Dec 4 at 22:58

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Words equivalent to ideas surrounding transience? (Think: Wabi Sabi)

Michaelyus

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modified Dec 4 at 13:13

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Why did 鲁迅 write 贿路 and not 贿赂 ("bribe")?

user2249675

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modified Dec 4 at 5:10

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How do you understand her name "Bi-khim Hsiao"?

jimy

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answered Dec 4 at 2:48

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Difference between 幺 and 么

jimy

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answered Dec 4 at 2:22

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Please Identify Painting Signature

CommunityBot

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modified Dec 3 at 19:03

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If A伴随着B, then is it true that B伴随着A?

r13

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modified Dec 3 at 15:25

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How to pronounce "得" in 我的生命因得與萬物漂浮進空間的蔚藍

Pedroski

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answered Dec 3 at 10:59

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Seal script translation

CommunityBot

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modified Dec 3 at 8:06

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What are the English equivalents for 民宿, 农家乐 and 网红打卡点？

CommunityBot

1

modified Dec 2 at 20:01

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What is the significance of component 𢚩?

differentrain

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answered Dec 1 at 7:42

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What is the meaning of 重重 in 尽管他们背着重重的行李?

differentrain

42

modified Dec 1 at 5:26

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Python function for splitting pinyin into syllables

CommunityBot

1

modified Nov 30 at 17:08

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How to pronounce 一 in 他就一本本閱讀 and 他一有空就

r13

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modified Nov 30 at 17:01

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Other than 秘密，are there two-syllable words in Chinese where each syllable is a different character with the same pronunciation?

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