Unanswered Questions
90 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Number of phonemic vowels in Middle Chinese
How many phonemic vowels are there in Middle Chinese? I'm interested in this question because Shanghainese has 16 phonological vowel/12 phonemic vowels, and was wondering if it had innovated more ...
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Has there ever been an English translation of 《輶軒》"Fangyan"?
《輶軒使者絕代語釋別國方言》has a couple of different names including《方言》and《揚子方言》.
In English it mostly just gets called Fangyan.
The entire Chinese text has been put up on ctext.
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the first Chinese ...
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What is the meaning of ...不断向产业链的高端提升是发展趋势的要求?
I can't quite get the last part of this
专家：这个问题不能一刀切。对于东部的企业，因为起步较早，有一定产业规模和资金积累，所以调整产业结构，提高技术含量，不断向产业链的高端提升是发展趋势的要求。
Can I rewrite the last bit thus:
不断向产业链的高端提升是发展趋势的要求。= 发展趋势的要求是不断向产业链的高端的提升。
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Yue/Min/Wu/Gan/mandarin phonetic correspondance
I am looking for a table of the regular phonetic correspondances between the different chinese varieties (Yue, Wu, Gan, Min, Mandarin...). For instance I noted a g (Yue)/j(mandarin) correspondance (e....
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What does 汉学家 really mean?
According to its face value, 汉学家 should mean someone who has made great accomplishments in the research of subjects in relation to the Han people, like John King Fairbank （费正清）or even the former US ...
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Retention of 其 as a modal particle in modern Chinese
There is a recent Chinese Stack Exchange question on the significance of 其 in 尤其, given the meaning of the word is largely contributed by 尤.
I am quite confident that some of the answers in the thread ...
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Correct understanding and use and of the words in 全都是用爷爷的番茄，生菜和黄瓜做的。
In the sentence
全都是用爷爷的番茄，生菜和黄瓜做的。
全都是 is a adverb to say without exception.
用 is a preposition to say "with"
爷爷的番茄 , is the object
生菜和黄瓜做 ,is the other part of the object
and 做的 , is the ...
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Can you download the Hanyu Da Cidian (漢語大詞典) as E-book format or PDF?
Unquestionably, an e-book format is way more convenient than these physical volumes or CDs! Where can I obtain 漢語大詞典 as E-Book?
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The Shanghainese pronunciation of 無
吳語小字典
吳語學堂
I have two sources for the Shanghainese pronunciation of "無" (leaving colloquial pronunciation aside); one says the initial is /v/ while the other /ɦ/. I found the same ...
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The meaning of 打 in 邊個打邊個
In Cantonese, 唔知邊個打邊個 means "don't know (confused) who is who"
The verb 打 (hit; attack) here seemingly occupy the position of 'is' in this phrase
But the meaning of 'is' is not included in ...
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Segmenting Chinese words for the index of a book
I am trying to make a strict index of individual words for a large work of literature, using Chinese word segmentation, such as are found at the back of reference books. . e.g. "大星............ ...
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What romanization system is this? （"sin thai juan" for "心太軟")
I came across this music video which features a pretty weird romanization system, I don't think I have seen before and I couldn't find any information on it (it is not listed on the list of ...
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Need Chinese phrase that would mean "dedicated craftsman" for calligraphy piece
I am a ten-year student of Chinese calligraphy and am thinking of creating a calligraphy piece that would mean "dedicated craftsman". I have not been able to find such a phrase in idioms or ...
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What does 大出天下 mean?
It is found in an exhibition of Qin Dynasty held in Xi'an city. The exact words are 秦国35代国君发奋图强，做好了“大出天下”的准备。I have checked the words online for the meaning, but finding no answer.But roughly I think ...
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Trying to translate signature and stamp for Chinese print (Characters identified: 戊午九月石年)
Trying to find the origin of this print and the translation of the signature and seal.
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