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What is the difference between 嫐 and 嬲?
According to mdbg.net, both characters have a meaning of "to tease":
嬲
to tease / to disturb
嫐
to tease / to play around with
Are both of them primarily used as synonyms for "tease"? Or are they ...
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Why is 伴 used for buddy?
Is it true that 伴 comes from the word, 半(half) and thus can be interpreted as (significant other person)?
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Why does 写 not have a dot on top?
Many hanzi have a roof on top, including a dot. From the HSK2 list, we have:
客 家 字 完 室 安 它
The commonly used hanzi 写 is unlike these because it does not have a dot on top.
Chinese-tools.com ...
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Should 屋 and 居 use radical 户 instead of 尸?
户 means home. So these examples are not suprising: 房 fáng (house), 扁 biǎn (flat), 扇 shàn (fan [mostly used indoor]), 扉 fēi (door)
尸 means corpse, and it looks like it refers to tail or something ...
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Why do some Chinese characters for animals not use the radical 犭?
why some Chinese words don't use the rule of prefix?
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Does the beta like character (as in 陳, 附 and many more) in Chinese have a special meaning?
It probably doesn't. I tried searching but couldn't find one.
But would be great if it does! Would help me remember so many new words. I hope somebody has figured out a pedagogical role of that ...
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Why is the radical of 难 > 隹 and not 又?
难 nan2, difficult; hard. Kangxi radical 172 隹.
My teacher says the radical for this character is 又 but the dictionary says clearly it's 隹.
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Semantic radical and dictionary header for 将
The Unihan standard, just like virtually every online dictionary, lists 寸 as the 部首 for 将.
The 部首归部 reference published in 2009 (http://www.moe.gov.cn/publicfiles/business/htmlfiles/moe/s230/201001/...
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What was this online dictionary's name with ancient traditional and simplified characters and glyph origins? [duplicate]
I once found a Mandarin Chinese dictionary which for each character listed the ancient, the traditional and the simplified Chinese characters. For each it described its meaning and how it developed ...
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