Questions tagged [simplified-characters]
For questions about simplified Chinese characters (standardized in printing since the 1950s in mainland China). Not merely for questions which happen to be written in simplified Chinese.
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How to tell Simplified and Traditional Chinese apart?
Imagine that I know nothing about the language. I open a book and look at some Chinese text.
What’s the easiest (and deterministic) way to tell if I'm looking at simplified or traditional Chinese?
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Translate “修路致富” into English [closed]
How to translate the title “修路致富” into English? I want to use it as the title of my paper.
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Written electronic communication speed in Simplified Chinese vs English
I am wondering about communication and typing speed in common scenarios.
How fast can one communicate using Simplified Chinese on a phone or a computer?
How does it relate to speed of communication ...
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Does "这很大钱! 再见大学钱...." make sense? Or have I written it wrong?
For my Chinese class, I have to make a film recording an exchange in a restaurant. I'm trying to say "This is a lot of money! Goodbye college money..." in reference to someone spending too much on ...
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Trying to Write a Short Photo Caption and Description
I am trying to translate this caption and description. However, I am not entirely sure if my translation is correct.
Caption: "When I was in San Francisco's Chinatown"
Translation: 当我在旧金山的唐人街
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At what age one stops calling a person 孩子？
I've seen a text where 20-year-old woman was called 女孩子, is it usual in China?
The text I'm referring to:
我大哥认识一个女孩子，她的名字叫李明英。李小姐今年二十岁，是大学生
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Does 都 refers to the 天天 or to the 晚上 in the following sentence?
Does 都 refers to the 天天 or to the 晚上 in the following sentence:
天天晚上都很忙
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Does 周末那两天 means both Sunday and Saturday?
The original sentence is：
周末那两天他看电视。
周末那两天 means both Sunday and Saturday?
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Study abroad in Hong Kong, should I start learning traditional?
I am currently learning Mandarin and simplified characters, but as I am studying abroad in Hong Kong next year, should I start learning traditional characters? Or are simplified characters widespread ...
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Correct the sentence
I'm trying to say: "It's not true. You are sitting the fourth from the right side"
那不是真的。 你坐在第四个右边。
Is it correct?
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Proper way to say "I don't know what the problem is." [closed]
What is the proper way to say "I don't know what the problem is" in Mandarin?
Not sure if this is a “问题” or a "关系“ structure.
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Is 一日千秋 a chengyu?
Is 一日千秋 a chengyu? I have tried searching for it using google with mixed results.
If it is a chengyu, what is its grammatical function?
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Please correct my chinese "Today is my day"
Today is the Singles' day, so I want to say something like "Today is my day. I accept your congratulations". Sure, it's some kind of a joke.
Could you correct me, please, if I'm wrong:
今天我的日子！ ...
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How could I correctly say "I moved here when I was eight years old"? [closed]
I am working on a self-introduction, and say where I was born. How could I correctly say that I moved house when I was 8 years old?
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Could you correct me if I'm wrong
Is it natural to say:
我不知道你为什么不常回我信息 (I don't know why you take so long to text me back).
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What is the use of 的是?
I have this sentence: "我觉得奇怪的是", which translates to "I feel weird". But wouldn't "我觉得奇怪" suffice?
What is "的是" supposed to do in this sentence? From my research, the best conclusion I came up with ...
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Chinese Dialogue Assignment
For this assignment, we were tasked to create a dialogue with the following criteria:
1.Talking about oneself, family and time.
In this dialogue students will exchange basic information about oneself
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How to say "it was nice meeting you yesterday"
I'm a newbie to Chinese. I'm learning it by myself. So I have some questions. Could you correct me if I'm wrong?
I want to say "It was nice meeting you yesterday" or "I was glad meeting you" etc.
I ...
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Evaluating / Grading A Short Chinese Translation (tech writing) - 4 Versions
If you are fluent in Chinese and also familiar with technology writing this challenge is for you!
Below is a short text sample in English and 4 different translation samples of that source. Have ...
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A reputation for something
I know the word for reputation is 声誉, but how would I use this word to form sentences like:
Chinese has a reputation for being a hard language.
This boy has a reputation for being naughty.
What ...
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Why is 見 replaced with 见 from simplified to traditional Chinese?
I'm trying to find out why certain (parts of) characters were replaced with others while developing the simplified Chinese writing system.
I want to know why 见 replaces 見? As in 问题，問題.
Many thanks.
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What is the Chinese term for a DGEN or Degen Gambler
What is the Chinese term for a DGEN gambler or a Degen Gambler, this phrase is usually used not in a bad way by pro gamblers who considers themselves or others DGEN/Degen gamblers as they thrive and ...
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Difference between 等待 and 等到
I'm struggling to differentiate between the two. Can someone explain this? Perhaps include some example sentences too.
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What is the difference between Chinese simplified and Chinese traditional?
I'm Indian. I'm trying to learn Chinese. I searched Google translate, it's showing Chinese simplified or Chinese traditional.
What is the difference between Chinese simplified and Chinese traditional?...
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What does the phrase '我的妈来' mean when it is used to express shock or surprise?
I know the literal meaning, but could someone please tell me the meaning in english when it was used as an expression (for example, when someone see a huge mansion and he said: "我的妈来! What a huge ...
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Is it correct to use 首都 for capital of province?
I am trying to do a cultural project on the city of Harbin. However, I'm not sure if it is correct to say this. I found out that Harbin was the capital of the province of Heilongjiang. If I said, ...
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How do I say 'excuse me'?
So, I just found myself in a spot of bother. I decided to go to learn how to make some Chinese knots, but everything there was Chinese, so I had to speak Chinese. I understood the instructions that ...
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Google Translate English to Chinese roman letters [closed]
In this video guy says every Chinese character has a pronunciation that can be written in roman letters.
Is it possible to configure Google Translate so that when I type hi it translates to Ni hao?
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Need an API to convert Pinyin to Simplified Chinese characters
I need a tool that is like Google's transliterate that will convert Pinyin to Chinese Character. It works like this:
http://shawnwow.com/chineseCharacterHelpr/transliterateTest.htm
But since it is ...
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Is it correct to say 人在中国喜欢乒乓球比踢足球, 但是人在美国喜欢踢足球比乒乓球?
你们好！
I'm a student currently studying Chinese. We have an oral assessment where we will need to compare Chinese culture and China to the culture of the Western world.
I was wondering if it is ...
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Can someone translate me this to english?
I have an image that is something wrote in chinese I think. Can someone translate it please? Thank you.
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How do you say "cupcake"?
What is the pinyin and simplified Chinese characters used for the word cupcake?
When looking it up there is no reliable answer. Some people seem to just call it by the chinese words for "cake" but ...
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What does 春德东更 mean and in what language?
What does that phrase 春德东更 mean? I found the writing on a t-shirt (which you can see below). When I look up the phrase on Google and Google Translate, the results doesn't come up with any satisfying ...
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Polite noun to refer to a colleague who is departing a company?
What is a polite noun to refer to a colleague who is departing a company?
For example, in English I might simply refer to them as a "leaver". (So someone who is leaving.) This is simple and non-...
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Why Chinese use too many 错别字?
What do you do when your Chinese friend say something that you don't know? You will ignore whatever that is, pretending you got it and move on. Most of the time, it's not even your fault that you can'...
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Are there characters in which the radicals are the same but the position changes the meaning?
Are there any characters in Chinese that have the same radicals in their formation, but the position of those radicals result in different meanings.
e.g. A character made up of two radicals, AB, and ...
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Chinese ellipsis marks
How is an ellipsis 省略号 written in Chinese?
。。。
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The only reference I can find on this is this word reference forum which states ....... This also says 6 dots.
E.g.,
在這裡輸入您的訊息.........
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What's the difference between xuéxí 学习 and xué 学? [duplicate]
I understand they both translate to meaning, "to learn, to study" but what is the purpose of this distinction?
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Need help finding the character encoding for my name
Chinese here! I have a really rare symbol in my name. The symbol was originally in the ‘traditional’character set, written as 頔 (pronounced as ‘di’) , but later China came up with a simplified version ...
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In Chinese, how can I describe someone as being cynical?
cynical as in "believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others."
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I visited shanghai a few years ago and bought a necklace. Unfortunately, I don't remember what the necklace says. Can someone help me translate? [closed]
Please help me translate this! (https://i.stack.imgur.com/6Ok5z.jpg)
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Which decomposition option of the Chinese character 天 tiān ‘sky’ is correct?
Decomposition of the Chinese Character 天 tiān ‘sky’ Poll
二 èr, 人 rén
一 yī, 大 dà
一 yī, 大 dà, 一 yī, 人 rén
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一点 or 一点儿 on HSK 1?
MDBG lists 一点儿 as not an HSK entry. I've seen other lists that do say it is an HSK entry.
Is it common for the HSK to include erhua variants instead of non-erhua? My understanding is that erhua ...
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What is the appropriate response to "Your Chinese is so good!"
A lot of the time, Chinese people will respond to a foreigner speaking Chinese with "wow your Chinese is so good!" What is a polite way to respond without sounding rude or full of yourself? Especially ...
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How do the Chinese address letters?
Please answer in simplified Chinese.
In English, we do this on the front of the envelope of a letter:
For example:
To master (x) or Sir (x) or Lady (x)
Address
In the inside we put:
Dear (x).
And:
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Do the Chinese have text speak?
Please answer in simplified Chinese characters
I recently met a Chinese person who was right in there with the acronyms, abbreviations and text-slang. Words like:
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brb
gtg
imo
So as you can see, ...
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How to write "Everyone" in Chinese？
Can anyone tell me how to write to "everyone" in Chinese. The symbol to write "everyone ". In a video they showed it to write people symbol 2 times. But when I am searching on Google it is not correct....
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Examples of "bad" simplified characters/简体字?
In particular, there should be many examples of 形声字 ("phono-semantic compound characters") which were "damaged" by simplification. I am interested especially in characters where a 声旁 ("phonetic") or ...
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In ancient China, was there an equivalent of pinyin?
The question is the title. Considering pinyin is in romanised form, did the ancient Chinese have pinyin to help them learn characters, or did they just have to repeat them hundreds of times to help ...
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Help me identify this Chinese word?
I was in Shanghai on a business trip several weeks ago. One evening, while my coworker and I were walking down Nanjing Road on the way back to our hotel, we were accosted my many ladies of the night ...
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