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Question specifically about the Mandarin dialect. (Not for arbitrary questions that happen to involve Mandarin.)

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Difference between 坏 and 破

Just a side note to the other answers. One way to capture the difference is to look at each one as the resultative element of a compound. For 破, we might find this: 他把我的手機打破了 ‘He smashed my ce …
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How is the currency of Taiwan referred to in Mandarin?

previous periods, but here are some ways to refer to other currencies: mĕi jīn ‘American dollars’ rì bì ‘Japanese yen’ găng bì ‘Hong Kong dollars’ yīng bàng ‘British pounds’ These are from a Mandarin
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How is adding oil going to beneficial to the situation? 加油

If the Mandarin term was borrowed from the same source (also likely in my view), it could have been written with various characters down through the centuries. …
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