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Questions about Chinese characters, called Hanzi.
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Derivation of the character for "hydrogen" in Chinese?
If not already existing, Chinese coin new characters or borrow old characters to denote elements. Hydrogen is a coined one.
It’s neither transliterated nor translated. …
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Does 靆 mean anything on its own (not followed by 靉)?
As a native speaker, I have to admit that this is the first time that I see these two characters.
By the help of dictionaries, I found that together 靉靆 means very cloudy so that it's dark. … Not sure how to translate the term, but it means a word that is made of two characters (syllables) which have the same vowel; it has only one morpheme. …
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闕 meaning in 一闕短歌
闕 que4 refers to the two pillars of the gate of palace or tombs; later extended to mean watchtower. 闕 que1 is to leave empty, to lack, broken, to err. Using 闕 as a classifier of song/詞 is a mistake th …
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Why aren't pictophonetic characters more consistent?
As for dialectal differences, southern dialects in general keep more ancient features and thus fit the pictophonetic characters better. … When kids are learning characters at school, the pictophonetic patterns are usually not instructed. The map of pronunciation to glyph is taught character by character. …
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What is with the characters 覆, 復, 複, 复? Are they all the same ? They appears to have overlap...
On page 631 of 王力's 《古代汉语2》,
That is
1.重複、複雜
2.反復
3.覆蓋
1 and 2 both simplified to 复 according to the current simplified Chinese characters standard. …
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Naming characters in a xianxia short fiction!
SIBLINGS' AND TWINS' NAMES: If those are twin sisters and brought up together, it’s weird to have unrelated names, especially one with 1 and the other with 2 characters. …
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How did 贼 come to mean "extremely"?
There are actually several papers on this topic, e.g. 试析东北方言程度副词“贼”_张然 etc. They all agree that this particular usage inherits and develops that of 贼 from Middle Chinese.
The original meaning of 贼 is …
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What do these seal stamps and characters on my pair of Chinese paintings mean?
I can't read cursive inscriptions 草書 and can only identify several characters. … But it's lucky this is actually a from the famous 懷素自敘帖 so that I was able to identify it only through several characters. …
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Help finding unicode code point for compound character 任鸟?
鵀 is actually an existing character in CJK Unified Ideographs (U+9D40), meaning hoopoe 戴胜鸟. But since it's not frequently used, the corresponding simplified character 𬸊 is in 扩E：2CE0A.
There is an in …
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Why is 钾 (jiǎ) the Chinese character for potassium?
It’s transliterated from Latin kalium, the first syllable.
To avoid confusion in symbols, please note k in Latin is /k/ in ipa and g in pinyin, voiceless but unaspirated. The pinyin k is voiceless and …
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Is 泵 the only transliterated loanword with its own logogram in all of Chinese?
And your comment with characters with 口. I can't persuade you further in that regard, but I stand corrected for its use in chemistry. … (The following bold characters are also transliterated.)
If including characters for chemicals, there are some that are both 会意 and 形声, for example 氢、氯、氮、溴、碳. …
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