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Well, it depends on situations. I mean, there are varieties of contents written in Classical Chinese, for instance, essays, philosophical tracts, biographies, history books, poems, …
No, not at all. Referring to a woman as 美女 (mei nü, Mei Nv) is a normal in China. It’s certainly not sexist. However, you …
They could refer to Green Dragon of the East, or 东方青龙 in Chinese, and White Tiger of the West, or 西方白虎 in Chinese, two of …
Well, it depends on you. I mean, if you choose 芸婕 as the combination of one generational name and a given name, then you could …
Since your name is Navodya Dissanayaka, I would suggest you take this name as your Chinese name, i.e., 狄雅娜, whose alphabet letters are Di Yana …
As I understand it, Buddha 佛陀 means 覺者 the enlightened. As far as I know, the Indo-European root is *bheudh, and means to be aware, …
No, it is not. Tsang is the Cantonese romanization of the surname 曾, whose Pinyin version is Zeng. When Zang is seen as a surname …
Instead of frightening readers with implacable monsters, Chinese ghost stories tend to use the spirit world (the very concept of “ghost” is rather fluid) to …
Friends who know me well are aware that I have a bee in my bonnet over a large number of Simplified Chinese Characters that have …
If this is the kind of slum you are talking about, unfortunately, there are none in China. What is associated with slums in China are …