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Help me understand why 我艹你 means i f*** you?
This might seem as an unserious question but i was really stunned the first time I had an argument with a Chinese guy in League of Legends and he said: "我艹你".
my first thought ofcourse was WTF!?! I grass you? what is he trying to tell me?
so my…
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What's the Chinese word for "bare-metal" (computer programming)?
Bare-Metal Programming
Bare-metal programming is a term for programming that operates without various layers of abstraction or, as some experts describe it, "without an operating system supporting it."
Example:
A: I made a nice motor controller…
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Does Chinese have an adage saying “It is better to hit to kill than to hit and injure”?
In "Driven to Kill - Why drivers in China intentionally kill the pedestrians they hit", it's claimed that there's an adage in Chinese of “It is better to hit to kill than to hit and injure.”
Does this adage exist, and in what contexts is it…
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Why is 相 pronounced with a fourth tone in some cases?
I notice that 相 is pronounced xiang1 in most cases, but xiang4 in a few, mostly less-common words and phrases. The most commonly-used examples seem to be 照相 zhàoxiàng 'photo'; 照相机 zhàoxiàngjī 'camera'; 相片儿 xiàngpiān(r) 'photo'; 相声(儿) xiàngsheng(r)…
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How can I pronounce 绿 (lü4 - green)?
My wife gave up trying to correct me on how to pronounce green.
I find it very hard to get a distinct sound from the word for 绿 (lü4 - green), Lu, and, Liu (as in Liu Bei). Obviously, Lu is exactly how it reads in English, but the other two are hard…
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"Four-part" composition of characters
I would like to compile a list of characters where you can draw two lines in a + shape, running through the center of the character to cleanly separate it into four "components." Some leeway must be given when writing them.
For example, 疑, 殺, and 豔…
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Saying "I have to go" in chat
Today I was chatting online with a Chinese person. I wanted to say "I have to go" to end the conversation and disconnect, so I wrote this:
我得走了
but I don't know if there is a better sentence. Or that sentence is just fine?
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Rhyme and tones
In rhymes, is only the sound of syllables concerned (see: Rhyming in modern Mandarin), or also the tone is somehow involved?
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Hanban/HSK Official Website Resources Download
Does anybody know where to find the most recent HSK test materials, especially the vocabulary lists to download?
I have checked the official site, but the 资料下载 'button' doesn't work
UPDATE: Found it.
All the downloads (audio samples, .PDFs, vocab…
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"Are you still married to Mary?" How to translate this?
I'm a Chinese, but I'm having trouble translating this to Chinese:
Are you still married to Mary?
I have never asked this before, but someone asked me if I know the Chinese translation of this. Please help?
All the Chinese translations I can come…
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The meaning of a Chinese inscription found under a little sculpture
I bought a figure of a taoist wise some years ago, and in all these years I have been unable to decipher the tiny seal (1cm x 1cm) under the figure.
It is an important figure in my life and I would be extremely thankful if somebody could help me to…
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Open Software Two-Line Add Pinyin To Characters
Is there any open software that adds a second line of pinyin to a line of characters?
i.e.: converting “你好” to:
nǐhǎo
你好
Converting to ni3hao3 would be fine to.
Open, namely, so that I can tinker with the pinyin to fit my needs.
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When did the words 麻醉 and 麻药 first appear?
I want to know how long 麻醉 and 麻药 have been compounded to mean anesthesia and anesthetic respectively. What is the approximate date of the origin of those two Chinese words? Are their origins relatively recent or relatively remote? Is there a…
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What kind of food is 漢巴德? (from 官場現形記)
In the Qing dynasty novel 官場現形記, there is this passage:
三荷包接過看時，只見上面開的是：清牛湯、炙鰣魚、冰蠶阿、丁灣羊肉、漢巴德、牛排、凍豬腳、橙子冰忌廉、澳洲翠鳥雞、龜仔蘆筍、生菜英腿、加利蛋飯、白浪布丁（10300620）、濱格、豬古辣冰忌廉、葡萄乾、香蕉、咖啡。另外幾樣酒是：勃蘭地、魏司格、紅酒、巴德、香檳，外帶甜水、鹹水。
which is a menu for a Western-style banquet. It…
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文了 也温了 any ideas?
I'm hoping to work my way through the Chinese tv series 新结婚时代, looking up new vocab, learning it as I go and I'm hoping to understand it all as I work through it.
Already in the first few lines I've come across the following dialogue which is rather…
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