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What happens is that I have been reading a Chinese novel. It mentions that the galaxy contains 346 million planets approximately, however, the author later mentions that there are “千百亿的星球” (&…
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I don’t recommend trying to read through the original—the rushed-Scottish-typographer take on Goguet’s 18th-century French transcriptions of the Chinese characters might cause an aneurysm—but going …
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I am trying to understand the exact meaning of the military terms used in the text at the very beginning of the first episode of the show 亮剑 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WAnpfEbR5s), and in …
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如今，美食家们对吃提出了更高的要求。他们不仅要观色、闻香、尝味、赏形，而且还要求食物具有养生方面的特色。 This is from the Standard Course Book of HSK5, section 19. I don’t understand the meaning of 方面的特色。Actually, I cannot make the need of both words …
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is this sentence ok? 上午我平时上班 / 学习 /锻炼 等等 I wonder if the adverb 平时 can be used as follow: Time+ 平时+activity Thanks in advance for your kind explanations 🙂
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I notice there are names of institutions like “XX高级人民法院”, which make me wonder what kind of people can be classified as 高级人民?
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Could you please help me out with the meaning of this sentence? 且先君（伟大圣明的先君/以先君之明智）而有知也，毋宁夫人，而焉用老臣？《左传·襄公三十年》 I don’t think Classical Chinese actually had punctuation, so it would have looked like …
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What is the difference between 这道菜味道很好 and 这道菜的味道很好? How does this grammar point work?
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In WeChat, QQ, text messages, and the like, it is common to see 哦, 噢, and 喔 used to express an acknoledgement that the other person has said something. They all seem fairly close equivalents to the …
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In Chinese, ”委屈“ has the meaning of being treated unfairly and consequently felt bad but didn’t dare to complain. “be upset” doesn’t necessarily imply being treated unfairly. “be wronged” doesn’t …
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I have seen an old and very rarely used character that consisted of four traditional dragons (龍). As I remember it meant “talkative.” That makes a total of 64 strokes, are there any other characters …
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公元前260年，赵括带兵出战。一直盲目自信、轻视秦军的他完全改变了廉颇的作战方案，死搬兵书上的理论，主动进攻秦军，结果数十万赵军全部被杀，丢掉了宝贵的生命。 This is from the Standard Course Book of HSK5, chapter 15. What is the meaning of 死? Baidu and Google literally translate …
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I am not sure why the character “小” (small) is used here. Is there any difference between “小炒牛肉” and “炒牛肉”?
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I realize that it is fairly easy to Google it but I’d never know how to pronounce it. Are there any audio recordings out there?
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