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Questions about the use of expressions, parts of speech, words, verbs, etc.

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Is 拿 only used to take "thing" and not "person"?

Yes, 拿 take a thing BY HAND (please look at the glyph, a box on a hand, that is to say, you take a box, 一个 “合” box 放在 “手” 上面), generally, we don't take a man, right? 请 = invite. you can check ancie …
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Why 天 is chosen for counting days instead of 日 in Mandarin?

we use 天 in oral Chinese, but 日 in writing Chinese, this is related to tone of characters, pronouncing fourth tone (4 声,入声) takes more efforts, so that we pronounce other characters with same meaning …
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