Can you provide some examples of Chinese words that have different meanings when spoken with different tones?
The word ”中国”. As you can see,the ”Zhong” with the first tone and the “Guo” with the second tone in Mandarin combined as a word …
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The word ”中国”. As you can see,the ”Zhong” with the first tone and the “Guo” with the second tone in Mandarin combined as a word …
It depends on your original native language. I assume you are a native English speaker since the question was in English. If you study full …
There is no doubt that the character “王” (Wang) originated from the pictograph of an axe. This is a large axe from the Shang Dynasty, …
To be honest? I think you are making this difficult for yourself. You say the vocabulary is complex. In what way? I don’t know what …
It is easy and very flexible. There are many ways to avoid such bad situation. I just take 2 usual solutions. 1st, use other words …
I thought the order of the strokes of Chinese characters were easy- A horizontal stroke before a vertical one; A left-falling one before a right-falling …
Well, since your name is Diana Costa Paiva, I recommend you choose Bai Yana, or 白雅娜 in Chinese, as your Chinese name. 白 is a …
People who ask this question don’t seem to know that word spacing is quite a recent invention, and very few ancient scripts had spacing. Some …
As a native speaker, I wouldn’t misuse this phrase, but explaining it clearly is not straightforward. “我去” (wǒ qù) is a phrase favored by people …
When I first came to China I was 17 years old and ready to embark on the journey of college life. In the beginning, it …