Fans of Chinese and Mandarin
It’s only China/Chine/Cina/Kina and variations of this in most European languages, South Asian and SE Asian languages The word China was thought to have derived …
Back in my dim and distant university days, I recall the professor in one of my linguistics classes discussing this. It’s difficult to decide what …
This is Fúzhōu (福州). Fúzhōu is a city in southeastern China, located in the province of Fujian. Fúzhōu is the capital of Fujian. This is Fǔzhōu (抚州). Fǔzhōu is …
I’m not currently teaching but I hold a degree in education. I did teach for a few years about a decade ago. I taught for …
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 …