Fans of Chinese and Mandarin
The literal translation of Chinatown in Mandarin is 中国城. Another commonly used name, 唐人街, literally means Tang People Street. However, the term Chinatown itself may …
米国 (Beikoku) is an older name for the United States in Japanese. But the origins of 米国 — and the reason it ended up being …
Some foreigner friends of mine think that Chinese characters are “impossible” to master. What? 50000 characters? The truth is, as other answers have stated, there …
To avoid confusing 左/右 as a beginner, I associated the falling fourth tone of 右 yòu / yow and the very last falling stroke of 口 with the meaning “right”: …
This is an interesting question, from the perspective of non-Mandarin speakers prior to the advent of Modern Standard Chinese. This is a page from the …
Ok, I’ll try to unpack this as best as I can but please bear in mind that we are talking about 5,000 years of human …
A lot of answers here are excellent already. I’m just here to summarize: – It’s true that Chinese characters can be more cumbersome to write, …
I have to make a little clever remark here! To some extent this is a pseudo-question. Zhao Mengfu’s Huangting Jing — every single character in it is …
The symbol “々” represents the repetition of the previous character in both Chinese and Japanese. Back in the days when writing was done entirely by …
When I was young, there were books with characters printed vertically. One of my classmates told me that he enjoyed the vertically printed books because …