Unanswered Questions
59 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Zhong Shan Suit Inner Shirt Cantonese Name
I would like to ask the Cantonese speakers about the 中山裝.
As we know, 中山裝 is similar to the western suit, 西裝, it is designed with the jacket (外套) and the inner shirt (長袖衫). However, my friends told ...
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1answer
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How did “kitsch” (刻奇) come to stand for emotional contagion in a group?
刻奇 is said to be a loanword from English meaning:
kitsch
Kitsch in short is said to be:
Kitsch is garish and sentimental art or other objects.
In long it is defined as:
Kitsch (/kɪtʃ/; ...
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Simplified Chinese Stroke order animation
I want to show Simplified Chinese stroke order animation with unity or C#, is there an open source library?
If not, is there paid repository of stroke order diagrams in unity or C#?
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2answers
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Games to learn Chinese with?
I’ve been looking online for the bigger part of a day in search of roleplaying games in Chinese for helping me learn it more efficiently.
I also asked my girlfriend (Chinese) to help me find a game ...
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0answers
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Translation for these symbols (Google turned back nothing!)
My grandfather received a painting when he was invited to China as part of a group of representatives of Sweden. I've always wondered what the symbols meant and since he has passed away and Google ...
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1answer
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Terminology for Teacher Pension Form in Taiwan: "基数“ and ”大口“
Stack Exchange!
I'm currently busy translating an old union pension form for a Retired Taiwanese schoolteacher.
One of the fillable note sections in the pension lists the number "56" using checking ...
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3answers
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Why is 于 needed after 不屑 (but sometimes not)?
In the following sentence:
也有一些“小资女人”的领军人物开始不屑于说英文了，偶尔来句日文或法文才能彰显自己的不同。
This sentence uses 不屑于, not 不屑, but the meaning would be something like:
Also, some leaders of “小资女人” started to look ...
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1answer
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What part of speech are 应答用语?
Words like
OK
好的
诶
are often used in response to other people's requests, proposals and the like.
In Chinese they're often referred to as 应答用语.
Is 应答用语 a part of speech? If so what would it be ...
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1answer
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Is Chinese writing pictorial, ideographic - or neither?
Chinese writing - that of Mandarin - does not seem anything like picture language as that is represented by Egyptian hieroglyphs. Nor does it seem ideographic in the sense that each character ...
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1answer
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Sogou IME (on Ubuntu): How to output pinyin with tone marks?
I have Sogou Pinyin on Ubuntu and things work fine, but I haven't been able to figure out how to type Pinyin with tone marks, e.g. 'mǎ', etc.
I've looked into the settings but found no option like ...
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0answers
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What does this seal stamp say?
My parents have bought some type of ceramic vessel (plate, pot, something like that), which has the following stamp on the bottom:
Armed with 米好 '-'’s answer on how to decipher seal script, I’ve done ...
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Assimil Chinese Old & New Editions
你好,
In the 1970's, I believe, Assimil, the famous publisher in France which creates autodidactic methods, hired Phillip Kantor to write the two part textbook "Chinese With Ease," which is fairly well-...
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2answers
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Can I split up time phrases and adverbs?
If there is more than one part to a time phrase (e.g. both 今天 and 八点) can I place one of them before the subject and one after? Is there any situation in which this would be okay?
他今天八点要去看电影 (not ...
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1answer
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One more painting signature, ink + gold
I am very grateful for helping me with signature on lovely Chinese painting, I have one more in my collection, judging by the back of it it has at least 100 years. It is painted with ink and gold, the ...
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1answer
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Handwriting 行書 semi-cursive online
Hi is there any website where we can input a chinese character and watch how it is written (the process) in 行書 semi-cursive form, and not how it is written in the normal "formal" stroke. In order to ...
