Unanswered Questions
147 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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What are the answers to the HSK6 语病 ("faulty wording") questions on the 22 publicly available HSK6 exams?
There are 22 publicly available HSK6 exams. Since I'm studying this topic for my upcoming exam, I might as well self-answer the question...
Question: What are the answers to the HSK6 语病 ("faulty ...
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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 dictionary ...
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What are the Cantonese to English transliterations for 俊傑, 俊熙, 俊健, and 俊文? I found zeon3 for 俊. That does not sound right
What are the Cantonese to English transliterations for 俊傑, 俊熙, 俊健, and 俊文? I found zeon3 for 俊. That does not sound right.
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How do I prevent Chinese characters from being displayed in the wrong script on Windows? (Traditional/Simplified)
On Google Chrome, Chinese characters are being marked in different scripts on the same site, and traditional characters are rendered in a sans-serif font while simplified are rendered in a serif font:
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What did Liu Cixin mean by: In this book, a man named “humanity” confronts a disaster?
In a postscript to the American edition of The Three-Body Problem / 三体, the author says:
In science fiction, humanity is often described as a collective. In
this book, a man named “humanity” ...
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What is the most recent glyph origin theory for 尺 and 乇?
Recently when I was researching the character 尺 (chǐ; Chinese measure approx. 'foot'), I've been trying my best to find any recent theories about this character that could be available.
Now, I know ...
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Where to find collection of Chinese serialized verb constructions (SVC)?
I have encountered a pretty cool area of research of translating between Chinese and English back and forth, and found documents like A cognitive approach to multi-verb constructions in Mandarin ...
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I am hoping to find any information available regarding this stamp (Characters identified: 福 日本館印)
This stamp is on an Enso circle that I purchased at auction. I'm hoping to find out any information that may be gleaned from it.
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Is this seal script and can some one translate this to english?
This symbols are on a vase or urn and I like to know what they mean. It would be great if somebody can help me. I am not familiar with chinese so a translation to english would be great. I try to find ...
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Seal on vase identification help (Characters identified: 工藝)
This is the seal on the vase I’m trying to identify. The picture is of a bird and flowers. Thank you!
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Artist name and date of painting
What is the artist name and date of the painting? It’s ink on paper 7.5 in x 8 in.
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Hoping to identify a stamp on a bronze that I have
I am hoping someone can help me identify the stamp on what I believe is a Chinese bronze crab.
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Can you help identify seal markings?
I have over 40 ink paintings that I am trying to identify, flowers, fish, humans, horse etc. They are painted on very thin paper with Chinese writing.
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雙注 Double zhuyin?
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Background:
I'm a cangjie typist and only really use phonetic methods when looking up new words I don't know the shape of.
But I'm interested in double ...
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Could this kind of a radical-based null cipher be possible in Chinese?
I'm writing a story set partially in historic China, and it involves a network of secret agents who seek to communicate over the mail in innocuous-looking letters. So I need a description of a pen-and-...
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