Unanswered Questions
103 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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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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1answer
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How to write and structure a modern professional follow-up email like a native Chinese speaker?
I'm interested in how the modern professional email structures differ between Chinese and English.
I'd like to create a go-to template/structure that can convert what native English speakers ...
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What did Eastern Han Chinese sound like?
As I was improving an answer to this question in the History SE, I discovered that the prestige Luoyang dialect of the Eastern Han and Three Kingdoms period didn't actually fall under Old Chinese but ...
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Are there northern dialects which still preserve velars before front vowels?
It's well known that Modern Standard Mandarin has merged what were historically velar stops and alveolar silibants when followed by front vowels. For instance, 京 is "jing" rather than "ging", and 津 is ...
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Do any good topolect maps exist for Chinese?
I've been rummaging through English dialect maps. Here's an example of one on Twitter:
And an American one for good measure:
Do any good topolect maps exist for Chinese?
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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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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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At what rate can native speakers of Mandarin Chinese read?
This study found that Chinese native speakers read aloud at an average rate of 255 characters per minute (CPM) with a standard deviation of 29 CPM. Presumably this rate is significantly slower than if ...
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Help identifying characters on a memorial coin
I recently got my hands into this coin
No idea how it got here, nor where it came from, I've tried to identify the text with some chinese speaking friends but we are unable to fully comprehend.
So ...
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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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Is the pinyin of 「操」in「情操」and「步操」the same in Mandarin？
Originally posted at http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?4,130404
由細到大，自己同身邊嘅人都將「劉備」個「備」字讀成與(比)字同音
而「曹操」個「操」字就讀成與(粗)字同音
但最近睇港版，『三國 』(2013)
「劉備」個「備」字讀成「預備」個「備」
而「曹操」個「操」字就讀成「...
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1answer
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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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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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What would you call “lizard people” in authentic Chinese?
Many may know the conspiracy theory about the world being secretly run by lizard people. In English I also hear the phrase "reptilian shape shifter" associated with the topic, but what would a native ...
