Fans of Chinese and Mandarin
The first character for autumn represents a cricket, which was carved on the back armor of ancient turtles and the shoulder blades of cows for …
Most languages have only one alphabet. Chinese has zero. Chinese has no alphabet at all. It uses a system of characters to represent words and ideas. There …
Context is needed for differentiation. There is no difference between “下次見“ and ”下次見“ unless you say it out。If you space the three words (spoken words) …
Well, this title wenkui, or 文魁 in Chinese, was conferred on people who passed tests in the Provincial Examination and ranked the 7th or below …
Eh… no, not really. At least not anymore lol. Modern Chinese characters are not particularly effective at conveying meaning through visual representation, but ancient Chinese …
I must answer this question because the calligraphy work I’ve been recently copying is the 峄山碑，Yi Mountain Stele, which features the standard official script of …
Mandarin Chinese is the most frequently spoken Chinese language or dialect with more than 900 million native speakers. The Chinese characters are more or less …
To be honest? Because you are totally misreading the character. The word lung is, on the left, the radical 肉 meat, flesh, which is used …
Mutual intelligibility. French and English use the same alphabet, but have you ever noticed that as an English speaking person you can’t understand most things …
As pointed out in the previous answer, this Chinese character“州” in pictographic writing refers to the land in the middle of rivers, representing the basin …