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What Chinese characters are rare in modern but common in classical Chinese?
I browsed randomly through texts written in classical Chinese, and I noticed there were a lot of Chinese characters that were frequent in classical Chinese but never or rarely being present in modern …
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What is the origin of giving certain corners within houses own name?
Thanks to another question on this forum i learned that the south-western corner of a house has its own name: 奥. I was very surprised of this notion and could not make any sense why there might be nec …
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What is the function of 甲 in 桂林山水甲天下?
What i know:
甲 is used for enumeration of items or persons in a dialogue, it corresponds to western 1. , a) , I. , X.
桂林山水 = Landscape of Guilin
天下 = literary expression for whole china or whol …
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What is the meaning of 及 in the compound word 危及?
I know 及 as a conjungtion for words or phrases with the meaning "and".
What meaning does 及 bear here that makes semantically sense?