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Are individual white hairs 髮 or 毛？

word-choice

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Difference of 青 and 黑

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Why can't we say 谁是她？

grammar

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Can "ask" be translated as "让"?

translation

answered Oct 3 at 23:24 Chiduru Okubo 31

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How to understand "乒乓大方卜"?

meaning meaning-in-context food

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搞得头，弄得头，睡过头 what does mean 头 in these three examples?

translation grammar meaning

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非 at the beginning of a sentence - Classical Chinese

classical-chinese

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"不管我做什么，她都说我能做得更好。" What is the function of "都" in this sentence?

grammar sentence-structure ambiguity

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How does Classical Chinese deal with vertical numbered lists and punctuation marks?

classical-chinese punctuation

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向 vs 对 to express the coverb 'towards'

usage

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在 meaning “When”

grammar

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Is there a Mandarin counterpart for the Cantonese slang 做媒?

mandarin cantonese slang

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Is there such a thing as dyslexia in Chinese?

writing

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Difference between 我很饿 and 我是饿

grammar

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I'm trying to figure out who the artist is on a painting. I don't know if it's Chinese or Japanese (Characters identified: 新羅山人秋岳)

translation character-identification seal calligraphy

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Garden Path Parsing of 雲南那兒的人有少數幾個民族說的是漢語的方言

translation syntax

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How to properly space Chinese with English and numbers in between?

translation punctuation

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What is the difference between 创造，创作，制造，制作，and 创建？

word-choice difference mandarin vocabulary

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How does 省's original meaning (ocular disease) semantically appertain its nounal (1. province) and verbal senses (2. examine; 3 economize; 4. omit)?

etymology

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What is the counterpart of self-respect in Chinese?

vocabulary culture synonyms

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What does 黄 (Huáng) in 黄色 ("yellow") mean, and can it be used as a name?

meaning vocabulary

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what is the different between 文言 and 书面？

grammar

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How is 一举两得 pronounced?

pronunciation sandhi

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How did 端 semantically shift to signify "destroy", when its semantic component 立 signifies 'stand'', 'establish'?

etymology

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What is the difference between the potential complement phrases 得了 and 得到?

grammar complement

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What is the difference between 做 vs. none in 这是我妈妈(做)的菜?

meaning difference

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Did the Chinese 獅子 = "lion" originate from the Persian شیر (šīr)?

etymology loanwords

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Why many professional Xiangqi players cannot pronounce 車 correctly?

pronunciation terminology spelling

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What are difference betweeen the Quotation marks " " and「」? And How do we use them?

difference

answered Oct 9 at 9:21 Silica 76

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What does my tattoo really mean? (Characters identified: 媳自強)

translation meaning character-identification

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How did 徹 originally signify a hand breaking a pot?

glyph-origin

answered Sep 29 at 11:15 dROOOze 20.6k

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Could you help me translate this picture?

translation character-identification traditional-chinese handwriting calligraphy

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Purpose of 是 in 我是问

grammar

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Help Translate Chinese Seals (Characters identified: 袁珮珞玉芹)

character-identification seal

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"我对他的观点提出抗议。and " 我对他的态度变了" both sentences use "我对他的," but seemingly in a different way

translation grammar ambiguity

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Are 煤碳 and 煤炭 the same thing ("coal")?

difference word

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Is using 是 correct in “我也是又累又渴”

grammar

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Using 的 to specify qualities

grammar adjectives

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What is the difference in 一点儿都不贵 with and without the 都?

grammar meaning difference

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Is this sentence correct 今天你想我了没？

phrase-meaning

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How does 亡 's original meaning (cutting edge of knife) semantically appertain its senses of 1. escaped and 2. go away?

etymology

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Grammar Question? 他没看了电影

grammar

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Can you translate this writing and red seal signature?

character-identification

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Meaning of míng

character-identification

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"你们现在有什么活动？" The material translation of this sentence confuses me. Is the usage of 活动 colloquial in this sentence?

translation ambiguity

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“说不上好”的标准读音是什么？（What is the standard tone structure for "说不上好"？）

tones

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Does 靆 mean anything on its own (not followed by 靉)?

characters vocabulary

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Do these sentences make sense?

grammar

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