Unanswered Questions
117 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Pronounciation of 腺
Quoting Wiktionary, the glyph origin of the character 「腺」 is as follows:
A 国字 (kokuji, “Japanese-coined character”) coined in the late 1700s–early 1800s by rangaku scholar Udagawa Genshin as a ...
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Unknown Traditional Chinese characters on lacquered boards
I'm a East Asian preparing to celebrate the Lunar New Year and have been given these pictures of lacquered boards from my father.
The first picture I suspect contains stylized Seal scripts. I cannot ...
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How similar do terms have to be to connect them with 與, 與其，及其？
I often want to make my sentences short in order to pass our classroom exercise of writing a 簡體 abstract from memory in under 5 minutes. The biggest problem seems to be that I use 與，及其，與其，in ...
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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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Pronunciation of “轧” in 富顺(县)?
《富顺方言》has an entry that reads:
【轧】
读音：ōā（连读）
释义：碾压，轧扎。
举例：1、小心车子轧斗人！
2、有一道菜叫“轧海椒”，下饭安逸得板。
The thing that is confusing me is the:
读音：ōā（连读）
I've checked in the actual print edition of ...
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Can anyone translate this Seal Script into english for me?
I played this game called Sleeping Dogs that I really loved! It took place in Hong Kong and the main character Wei Shen has this tattoo on his arm that I thought would be cool to have. After doing ...
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The number of “components” (potentially) to define a Chinese character typeface
This post goes into some hypotheticals on how long it might take to design a Chinese font compared to a Latin font.
It shows an image of potentially some "radicals" which could be used as the base ...
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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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Is there a Chinese name for the initiality theorem?
This is a very specialized question. There is a branch of mathematical logic called Homotopy Type Theory in English, and in Chinese 同伦类型论. There is a Baidu page on it baike.baidu.com/item/同伦类型论. A ...
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Can someone tell me if this script is correct?
I'm trying to write in full cursive with my own personal style and this is one of my first letterings.
I'm quite happy and I think that it does look readable, but I'm afraid that the two long line I ...
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What is this flute inscription?
A saw this inscription on a flute. Can someone tell what does it is?
I'm really curious.
Thanks in advance.
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Etymologies and relationship between the characters 錘, 槌, 鎚, and 椎
Wiktionary lists 錘, 槌, 鎚, and 椎 to all have the meaning of "hammer", but I'm not sure if that was the original meaning for any of those characters, and they all (or at least some) appear to have ...
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Please help identify traditional Chinese painting
I've inherited a Chinese cloth painting from my ancestors. I'd be grateful if you could help me know more about the artwork through the signature and seal.
Regards,
VinayakFull artwork
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Is there any study on the relative difficulty of native Chinese speakers with different dialects learning another dialect?
I wonder if there is any research conducted in China, on the relative difficulty of Chinese speakers learning different dialects. I'm looking for something like the research by the Foreign Service ...
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Meaning of the saying 逢着天门
逢着天门 Does anyone know the meaning of this saying or idiom? It is part of the commentary to a Shenshu verse, which doesn't really make sense to me, but it seems this expression more or less explains ...
