Chinese Language

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For questions related to Chinese linguistics (the study of language), or terms and terminology used in linguistics.
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Literary Chinese (文言文 wényán wén, "text of written language"), a traditional style of written Chinese modelled on the classical language, making it different from any modern spoken form of Chinese.
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The Chinese literature
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Questions about the words used in a song
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Question specifically about the Mandarin dialect. (Not for arbitrary questions that happen to involve Mandarin.)
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Questions about understanding the meaning of words, phrases, etc. For in-context meaning, use [meaning-in-context].
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Questions about understanding words or phrases within a given context.
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For questions about measure words and classifiers (量詞 or 量词), e.g., 個/个, 雙/双, 張/张
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Middle Chinese (simplified Chinese: 中古汉语; traditional Chinese: 中古漢語; pinyin: zhōnggǔ Hànyǔ), formerly known as Ancient Chinese, is the historical Chinese dialect recorded in the Qieyun, a rime diction…
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Questions related to (lexical, grammatical, stylistic, ...) errors in the usage of a Chinese language.
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Questions related to Chinese names.
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For questions about generic, uncategorized, unofficial or unspecified notation marks
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Questions about Chinese numbers and counting.
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A tag for discussing the nuances of particles. Including 的, 了, 吗, 过, 吧, 个, 着, etc.
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a branch of linguistics concerned with the systematic organization of sounds in languages. It has traditionally focused largely on study of the systems of phonemes in particular languages…
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a group of words that form a single unit in the syntax of a sentence.
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Questions about the official transcription writing system that is used to write the reading of chinese characters using the roman alphabet.
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For questions about polite expressions, etiquette, formalities, social norms, etc.
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