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I have to disagree with Paul Denlinger. “我” is not a modern word, nor being the pronoun for oneself in 20th century. “我” first appeared …
鸡你太美 is actually a meme. The original line was 只因你太美（only because you are too beautiful）， which was the first line of a song sang by …
This is actually a reduced form of the original character, 灋. In addition to the three drops of water, the word is made up of …
This is very difficult to translate, because the cultural connotations are so different. Literally, 緣 means hem, the hem on a garment, which doesn’t help …
It means working from 9 am to 9 pm, 6 days a week. It started to gain popularity when some Chinese company, predominately tech companies …
These are two very different questions. Classical Chinese is a language, it can be written in either traditional Chinese character fonts or any modern Chinese …
Definitely not. I am sure Cantonese isn’t that big in China (everything is bigger in China), so I consulted Wiki for a quick look. According …
The argument that the Chinese language isn’t very useful outside of China make some say 2 things: Duh. Like, a billion people speak it there. …
I’ve wondered about this myself. I checked Lucas Lee’s source as well, but it was not very detailed, so I looked to other sources. Note …
Not the best person to answer this question but since you requested to me, here’s how I memorize Mandarin pronunciation (spelling) of Chinese Characters. For …