Unanswered Questions
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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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HSK and most used Chinese characters
I have been wondering how come the HSK list be so diferent from the list of the most used Chinese characters.
The only list I know about character frequency is Jun Da's list. On the first 2635 most ...
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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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Lists and Conjunctions
Is the use of a conjunction between the second-last and last word in a list a natural Chinese construction?
Sometimes the construction feels like an Anglicism: I do not hear it in daily speech that ...
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Terminology for Teacher Pension Form in Taiwan: "基数“ and ”大口“
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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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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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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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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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What is the real etymology of “China”?
What is the current theory and has there been a reliable answer?
The most celebrated theory that it derives from 秦 (Qin, as in the first dynasty, or the preceding state) I find a bit suspect. In ...
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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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Help with Buddhist meaning of 麼
麼 Occurs repeatedly in later Tang and early Song Dynasty Buddhist texts. Does anyone know of its Buddhist meaning, most translators disregard it. Thanks.
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Does this scroll say 䤛食琴心?
I was given the following scroll
and would like a translation before I keep it up on my wall. I believe it says “䤛膳琴心” but I’m not sure. Moreover, I’m not familiar with this idiom and don’t know what ...
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Under what circumstances can you use 又…又…?
Can you only use 又 with adjectives, or can you also use it with verbs, verb phrases, and nouns？ I want to say, "Summer this year is rainy and cloudy.", so I wrote, “今年夏天是又雨天又云天。” Is this correct, or ...
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Is “(t 某某, s 某某)” accepted notation for showing tradtional and simplified characters together?
I've never come across the notation "(t 某某, s 某某)" to indicated traditional and simplified Chinese characters together, so I was quite confused when I came across this on the Wikipedia page for Fuxi:
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