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I've been watching the popular TV series 'Shine on Me' 《骄阳似我》recently. In the drama, the female lead falls from the second floor and is saved by the male lead. Later, she sends him a text message that ...
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CJK Extension J just released in Unicode 17 back in September. Is there a consensus on the best font for this? Some ideas: I'm partial to Jigmo as the newest child of Koichi Kamichi, creator of the ...
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So very recently, I started my self-research of glyph origins again after a while. One particular that I thought was interesting to explore is 牽 (qiān; drag, pull, lead by hand) and there seems to be ...
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I was wondering if anyone knew where I can get Chinese seals translated or if anyone can read this seal?
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Anecdotally, I have heard, of a number of people that use different characters to write their names than the characters officially recorded in their household registration booklets. They may perhaps ...
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By comparing characters where the radical/meaning part is on the left and bottom almost surrounding the phonetic component. Those with ��, 鬼 (eg: 魅), and 麦 (eg: 麵, some fonts have the diagonal stroke ...
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Unlike 社会主义 or 共产主义, 集体主义 doesn't seem like it could derive from Japanese (which uses 集団・集團 instead) but does still seem like it could be a semantic loan. When and where does this term originate from?
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In 袁俊芳's paper entitled《乐山方言特殊语气词分析——兼与成都方言比较》we can see a clear example of how the modal particle "吼" is used: 吳睿純's《客語中的語尾助詞honn》also contains a lot of examples of "honn" in ...
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I'd like to know the Unicode codes for the individual strokes like piě, shùzhè and xiégōu for example? I'm used to the Latin code pages allowing to represent the combining diacritics as isolated, for ...
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I've had a screenshot of a character saved on my PC since 2013, thinking some day I'd get around to figuring out what it means, and I haven't yet managed. It's nothing important at all, but I'd like ...
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For example, I get significantly different results when I search for (both with quotation marks)     I. "台灣" (I get more Taiwanese and .tw results); and     II. "台湾" (I get more ...
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The following text if Text number 4 in chapter 1 of the book "HSK Standard Course 4" (in Chinese, "HSK 标准教程 4 下"). What do the asterisk mean in the vocabulary list?
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I recently bought a hand-painted shan shui. I like the drawing very much and do not intend to sell it. Please tell me more about the Artist and the writing - the seller said it should be around 40+ ...
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Is it possible to decipher the identity of the artist and/or the accompanying caligraphy? The subject of the scroll painting is a mountain village with waterfall. The exact age of the scroll painting ...
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Apparently, 三字经 is an abridgement of much longer texts, entire treatises. If the text was passed on to children in this form (more like a reminder), then the teacher likely verbally explained each ...
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