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Is it considered a bad thing to choose a book character's name as yours in Chinese? Picking a name from a book etc?

names

answered 2 hours ago Alan Zzz 426

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What does 不对付 mean?

word

answered 3 hours ago Alan Zzz 426

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Is 今天的锻炼打卡了 correct usage of the phrase 打卡?

usage

modified 9 hours ago Tang Ho♦ 62.2k

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How do we translate 这就要求我们做好企业管理，防备出现轰轰烈烈开张，随即偃旗息鼓的局面?

translation

answered 12 hours ago Pedroski 13.3k

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Resources for learning Mandarin Chinese

resources

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What is the difference between 但 and 只?

meaning difference

answered 16 hours ago Brian Cheung 133

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Under the rules for tone sandhi and half 3-rd tones, is it correct to pronounce a (3-3) as (3h- 3h) or it must be pronounced (2-3)?

pronunciation sandhi

modified 20 hours ago Becky 李蓓♦ 10.8k

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How do you combine the sandhi rules for consecutive 3rd tones and half 3rd tones in a sentence like 我很高兴?

pronunciation sandhi

modified 20 hours ago Becky 李蓓♦ 10.8k

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What happens with tone sandhi with consecutive third tones, e.g. wo3 hen3 hao3?

tones sandhi

modified 21 hours ago Becky 李蓓♦ 10.8k

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How should I parse “有过之而无不及”?

expressions phrase-meaning

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稀里糊涂and糊里糊涂, Are there any differences?

meaning word

modified 23 hours ago Community♦ 1

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How to give news of my grandmothers death

translation meaning mandarin

modified yesterday r13 1,079

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Chinese IMEs - Wubi, Cangjie

input-methods

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Cangjie reference

vocabulary characters cantonese

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method to type Cangjie secondary signs?

traditional-chinese

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Meaning of seal (Characters identified: 媒體勇士)

translation character-identification seal

answered yesterday dROOOze 19.8k

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Is this a correct sentence “你今天就不说多的话了”?

meaning-in-context sentence-structure phrase-meaning

modified yesterday mika 228

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Is there a word or phrase in Chinese referring to the physical office of Chinese authority?

word-requests

modified yesterday r13 1,079

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Monolingual Mandarin illustrated dictionary in traditional characters

mandarin traditional-chinese dictionary

modified 2 days ago 水巷孑蠻 11.8k

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Ways to politely insult somebody's intelligence in Mandarin?

mandarin vocabulary

answered 2 days ago r13 1,079

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What does 敢于亮剑 mean?

phrase

modified 2 days ago r13 1,079

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Tag Questions with 是不是

grammar

modified 2 days ago Giuseppe Romanazzi 469

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How do I precisely understand 坐井而观天，曰天小者，非天小也 (the origin of the chengyu 坐井观天)?

translation meaning classical-chinese

answered 2 days ago daotian 318

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'it cant be helped' translation in cantonese

translation cantonese equivalent-phrase colloquialisms

modified 2 days ago Tang Ho♦ 62.2k

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What is the Mandarin PinYin pronunciation for the Bushou that cannot be typed?

pronunciation simplified-chinese radicals dictionary

modified Jul 25 at 23:40 DAZANG 1

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What is the polite way to say a grandparent has passed away?

word-choice vocabulary cantonese topolect

answered Jul 25 at 4:09 CCS 11

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Why do the names of some Chinese companies consist of “repeated” words?

culture syntax

modified Jul 25 at 0:30 Luke Sharkey 73

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Two-part Allegorical Saying Collection | 歇后语合集

mandarin

answered Jul 24 at 22:14 r13 1,079

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Can “I/me” be read as “ou” in Cantonese?

pronunciation cantonese

modified Jul 24 at 20:32 blackgreen 5,085

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Segmenting Chinese words for the index of a book

word

answered Jul 24 at 20:09 r13 1,079

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Why does 苏 have the meaning revive?

meaning

answered Jul 24 at 7:35 dROOOze 19.8k

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Yue/Min/Wu/Gan/mandarin phonetic correspondance

cantonese phonology

modified Jul 24 at 6:33 Tan Kian-ting 21

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What is the signature and red seal on my landscape painting? (Characters identified: 廣城作)

translation character-identification seal calligraphy

answered Jul 24 at 6:32 dROOOze 19.8k

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What romanization system is this? （“sin thai juan” for “心太軟”)

romanization

asked Jul 24 at 1:21 WinMacLinUser 121

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Similar pronunciations of tea/茶 across languages

pronunciation etymology

modified Jul 23 at 18:48 Glorfindel 394

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How would you express ''swerving all over the road'' as in a drunk driver?

vocabulary

modified Jul 23 at 10:28 blackgreen 5,085

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Translating as Past or Present tense

translation grammar mandarin past-tense

modified Jul 22 at 23:44 r13 1,079

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Character vs. glyph vs. grapheme/morphogram vs. ideogram vs. logogram vs. pictogram vs. symbol vs. syllable

terminology

modified Jul 22 at 23:27 sage 1

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Why does “yin” (陰) comes first in “yin-yang” (陰陽)?

etymology word-order phonology

answered Jul 22 at 16:28 sunfy 4,085

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Idiomatic Cantonese translation: Ugly American

translation

modified Jul 22 at 12:46 水巷孑蠻 11.8k

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Precise meaning of 马到成功

meaning phrase idioms

modified Jul 22 at 6:43 Wayne Cheah 1,835

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Is there a pattern for when you need to include 去 for future tenses?

grammar

modified Jul 22 at 2:07 Giuseppe Romanazzi 469

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What does 东突之敌 mean here?

meaning-in-context

modified Jul 21 at 20:30 zyy 3,034

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How is 了 being used in 没有了职务?

grammar particles

answered Jul 21 at 19:42 r13 1,079

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Does the character 大 make a name seem “Unsophisticated”

usage characters names

answered Jul 21 at 9:39 Curiosity 459

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What does 大型纪录片 mean?

phrase

answered Jul 21 at 9:26 Betty 2,284

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How do we translate “to expect”, in the sense of “the author expects the reader is familiar with Chinese culture”?

translation word-choice

answered Jul 21 at 8:45 Pedroski 13.3k

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What level of a position 卿 is at as in 国务卿?

word

modified Jul 20 at 11:01 Community♦ 1

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