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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?

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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?

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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

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What's up with these bizarre noodle cooking instructions?

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 And what is it originally made of?

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Is 认 related to 人?

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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?

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

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Is this sentence correct 很多人需开始工作得帮家

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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

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what does 如今年至及笄 mean?

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Why do the news report use 某?

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How to compare the syllable structures of Chinese with Hangul?

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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?

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Who do 五尺童子 and 而屠戮 refer to here?

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What does "現代修真" mean?

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

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

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

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What doe these three seals mean?

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

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Repetition of the first verb (separable verbs)

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How to parse 各在鏡腿上綹兩把

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List of components with their meanings published by a reliable source

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

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

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

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

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

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Difference between 幺 and 么

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Please Identify Painting Signature

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If A伴随着B, then is it true that B伴随着A?

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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

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Seal script translation

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

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What is the significance of component 𢚩?

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

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Python function for splitting pinyin into syllables

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

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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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