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characters technical

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grammar usage difference particles

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Are HSK6 questions 51 through 60 (语病) so difficult that it's reasonable to just guess?

hsk

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Can an adverb modify another adverb in Chinese?

grammar usage sentence-structure phrase adverbs

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lyrics internet-slang songs

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What's the meaning of 虚化 in Chinese linguistics?

meaning-in-context terminology linguistics

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translation mandarin

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What is 了 doing in 这个表快了+time？

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etymology slang

modified Jun 9 at 17:33 Jacob 3,636

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What does it mean for a woman to be 贤惠 (xiánhuì)?

meaning culture

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translation vocabulary

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Is the ''a'' in ''ta'' pronounced as the ''a'' in ''tan'' or the ''a'' in ''tang''?

pronunciation

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In 则无迟重之虞所谓顶头悬也, does 顶头悬 translate to “Incoming Danger”?

meaning-in-context classical-chinese

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在一篇关于墨尔本疫情的文章里，作家为什么先写“爆发”再写“暴发”？

meaning-in-context difference

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How to translate “something separates me from other people” in Chinese?

translation usage

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What is known about the new HSK 2020 format?

hsk

modified Jun 21 at 12:48 Becky 李蓓 7,646

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Is there an idiomatic way to express 乱说 or 胡说八道 in an elegant way?

idioms chengyu terminology

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word meaning of 回也其庶乎 in Classical Chinese

classical-chinese

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Can I replace 可以不用 with 不需要？

meaning-in-context

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What is the literal translation of the first line of the Tao Te Ching?

translation meaning-in-context

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Is 各式各样 Taiwanese version of 各种各样?

usage difference idioms

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How do you refer to multiple people with the same surname?

mandarin names

answered Jun 30 at 14:12 fefe 7,041

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meaning-in-context idioms

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Difference between Verb + 不了 and Verb + 不动

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What is the difference between 乾 and 幹?

vocabulary difference

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Chinese word well illustrated graphically

characters simplified-chinese

answered Jun 16 at 19:08 blackgreen 2,249

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HSK6的第101题（缩写）请求反馈：富有爸爸和会花钱的儿子

writing-critique hsk

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Trust/Believe : “信任” vs “相信”

word-choice usage vocabulary

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Is there a chengyu to mean “undeserved reward” or “undeserved luck”?

chengyu

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Is there an idiomatic way to express being overwhelmed by vocabulary?

idioms

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Translation and script type of Chinese calligraphy scroll (Characters identified: 高明配天敬璧)

translation character-identification seal calligraphy

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Why does “I go” also mean damn it? (我去)

etymology slang colloquialisms

modified Jun 11 at 10:51 Community♦ 1

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Why 了 in 走+time+就到了？

grammar meaning usage difference particles

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Why was I told 在什么情况下……吗？ is wrong?

grammar

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Why is 很早 after the verb in 我起床很早?

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If 冬 in itself means winter, why add 天?

translation grammar character-components

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Meaning of 的 in 我十岁才到的美国

grammar meaning-in-context

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Is 塔拉費薩爾 an appropriate transliteration of my name?

traditional-chinese names transliteration

answered Jul 1 at 5:20 Betty 1,245

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What's up with this mixed simplifed and traditional album cover?

traditional-vs-simplified

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What are the grammatical functions of 一米八五 and 一个小时?

grammar

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Passive object position in 是…的 structure?

grammar usage sentence-structure phrase word-order

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Stylistic assessment of a Western first name as the basis for a Chinese name

names transliteration

modified Jul 2 at 21:57 Tang Ho 47.6k

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Can you still use “Number + MW + 多” when the Number can be more than one MW larger?

grammar usage meaning-in-context sentence-structure

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Characters' original forms that have no independent usage

glyph-origin

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In 有一只小鸟真可怜，它在树枝上冷得发抖 why is 有 at the start?

translation grammar sentence-structure

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