Fans of Chinese and Mandarin
Both languages have their benefits and drawbacks. English is a phonographic language, more or less. Each letter represents a distinct sound, and words are made …
This Chinese character 润, whose Pinyin version is rùn, has multiple meanings in Mandarin. As you mentioned, 润 could mean embellish. So, 润色, which literally …
The word “worship” is very misleading here because it has religious connotations. The Chinese don’t “worship” their ancestors; they have ceremonies where they pay respect …
Technically speaking, most real African people come from Africa came to China to live in the real life here. By real African people I mean …
This is a misunderstanding. 圣母 in Chinese internet slang means “A person with the purest virtues and highest sense of honor, a paragon of mankind”, …
When Nissan introduced the Bluebird model in Malaysia, the Chinese name picked for advertisement in Chinese language press was 蓝鸟, which literally means Bluebird. However, …
Just like English or it’s presuccessor, the Latin language system, uses prefix to indentify a word. 肉 means meat and in ancient symbolic characters, it …
TL;DR From an anglophone POV, Traditional Chinese is indeed a backward language! [Pages 16 {right} – 17 {left} of the Chinese version of Holes, by Louis …
In the past Chinese has been written on rolls of bamboo sticks which made it easier to write the characters vertically and from left to …
I don’t know about “inferior”, but I would expect that it is harder. When I lived in Hong Kong a lot of my ethnic Chinese …