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Mary is usually written as 玛丽 in Chinese. Sometimes, it could be written as 玛莉 in Chinese. There are well-known people who share this name with you, such as, Mary Pickford, or 玛丽·碧克馥 in Chinese, a legendary figure in the cinema world. Mary-Louise Parker, or 玛丽-露易丝·帕克 in Chinese, another actress in the entertainment industry.
They are very similar and sometimes overlap. The most common pronunciation of English /r/ is as a labialized postalveolar approximant, [ɹ̠ʷ]. Some North American, Irish, and West Country varieties have a labialized retroflex approximant, [ɻʷ]. The syllable-initial Mandarin sound transcribed as <r> in Pinyin is most commonly somewhere between a retroflex approximant, [ɻ], and a … Read more
Dui Niu Tan Qin (对牛弹琴) is a well-known Chinese idiom/Chengyu. The idiom is very easy to understand, provided you know the corresponding 4 simple Chinese characters. 对 (duì): Face to face; opposite; opposing 牛 (niú): Cattle; ox 弹 (tán): Play; pluck 琴 (qín): Qin, a seven-stringed plucked instrument 弹琴 (tán qín): play the Qin instrument … Read more
Is Chinese arguably the toughest language in the world for a westerner to master? To speak, read & write in it as good as a native Chinese, would it take the best part of a lifetime? Apart from having official UN status, is it also a world language? Haha. Half yes half no. If you … Read more
In Chinese language, if Japanese have original name or brand written in kanji/Chinese characters, usually Chinese no need to change their name based on Chinese pronunciation. Unless if it’s very hard or weird to pronounce by many Chinese people or Japanese themselves allowed Chinese to make their name to pronounce and written based on Chinese … Read more
1 in 5 Chinese school kids in Malaysia aren’t even Chinese Non-Chinese students comprised 18% of Chinese-language primary schools in 2016, according to Malaysia Education Ministry Statistics, or almost 1 in 5 students. The enrolment of non-Chinese students particularly Malays and Indians actually rose by over 20% between 2010 and 2014. Compared to more than … Read more
While there have been notably successful logographic writing systems, there are specific reasons why the non-phonetic Chinese characters have survived while overall the “phonetic revolution” that gained impetus from the success of the Phoenician alphabet has spread worldwide. In considering the question we must ask both why the phonetic system took over, and why the … Read more
The wife of the Guangwu Emperor (5 bce – 57 ce) of the Eastern Han was named 陰麗華 Yin Lihua (family name Yin, Lihua, beautiful and flowery, or beautiful flower). The founding emperor of the Sui dynasty had a daughter in 561 ce. He named her 楊麗華 Yang Lihua. There are so many people named … Read more
Mistaken* premise. Chinese writing *IS* phonetic (mostly), but on a syllabic level: each character simultaneously stands for an entire syllable and a complete morpheme (minimal unit of meaning). Most characters include a phonetic element, some more accurate than others but still useful: entire syllable or rhyme only. [Most characters combine a signific 父,革,竹… with a phonetic such … Read more
Correct in grammar but not in phraseology. The more authentic English phraseology is:— She has been to New York many times. — (For having visited there) She has gone to New York for the rest of this month. — (Going there for a purpose)