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What's the difference between 慢慢 and 渐渐？
what's the difference between 慢慢 and 渐渐？
For example why can you use 慢慢 here，but not 渐渐？
ex） 你慢慢吃吧，别着急！
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"If you say so": Dismissive agreement
I would like to know some ways to agree in a non-committal or dismissive way. For instance, in English, we have:
If you say so.
Is that so? (with a flat intonation)
Really? (flat intonation)
Whatever you say.
In Chinese, I'm a bit at a loss. "Is…
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Difference between 好累 and 很累
我很累。
我好累。
What's the difference between those sentences? Both seems to mean "I'm tired".
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The question is regarding 成语－挟怨报复
I have a question:
成语－挟怨报复－可以用在下面情形吗？
有一位前辈的报告写错了。
我善意指正他。
后来，我的报告他故意找问题。
下面这些可以吗？
一朝权在手 便把令来行
心胸狭窄 倚势挟权
倚老卖老
窃弄威权
哪一个最好？
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What is the difference between 升, 陞 and 昇?
There are some characters in Chinese which give me severe headaches, especially those that have the same pronunciation and mean more or less the same thing.
I have learnt three characters which are all pronounced shēng: 升, 陞 and 昇. Is there any…
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Why is there a special pronunciation of 论 just for 论语?
The character 论 has pinyin lùn for all uses except in 论语 where it is
lún. Is there some known historical reason for this change in pronunciation?
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A 理解 and 了解 comparison
I know the question regarding the difference has been asked but the answers didn't really help me in the other post. I'm trying to recall what my Chinese teacher once taught me.
理解 is when you can understand why something/someone is how it is, but…
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Is classifier/measure word required after demonstrative?
I have been reading into this topic and found a bit conflicting information - some say it is mandatory to put a classifier after demonstrative (e.g. zhè), while some say it actually is not mandatory.
For example a question "what's name of this cat",…
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The question is about 问讯
(I am learning Buddhism/dharma in Chinese.)
为什么合掌鞠躬叫"问讯"？
或是说：
为什么现在的"问讯"不是用讲的？
"问"和"讯"都是动词吗？还是动词+名词？
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Why 『衛護』's 『護』 is 言部？
護《說文》：『救視也』。但『擭』非同字，《說文》：『搫擭也。一曰布擭也，一曰握也』。
我覺得『衛護』的『護』寫作『擭』更好。如題問，『護』為什麼是言部？
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Is there an authoritative list of most frequent to most infrequent pronunciations for individual Chinese characters?
I'm working on a dictionary tool that provides, as an auto-assist, transcription of Chinese characters into corresponding (Modern Standard Mandarin) pinyin+tones on a naive, character-per-character basis without lexical parsing (the tool is intended…
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Equivalent expression to: "I don't give a f***"
Is there something in Mandarin like "I don't give a f***", something that expresses the same sense of "I don't care" but with more force.
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Is there any other language intelligible to Mandarin Chinese speakers?
Can native speakers of Mandarin Chinese readily understand speakers of neighbouring regions such as Korea, Japan, Mongolia, or Canton? Are Mandarin Chinese and any of these languages mutually intelligible?
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Is 我很对不起你 a unique sentence structure?
I'd never seen or heard this before until I recently watched a TV series and had to ask my wife to explain.
My initial guess was that it meant "I feel sorry for you" when in fact it means something like "I'm very sorry" (in the direction of the…
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What is the structure of 我吃饭的时候看了一本书?
The sentence 我吃饭的时候看了一本书。 apparently has two verbs (吃 and 看), but I can’t see how the two actions are correlated. Could anyone explain that?
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