because it takes long to learn to read in Chinese due to the vast number of characters to master (Hannas,1997; Man,2000; Wolf,2007). Notwithstanding their inefficiency and complexities, Chinese characters have endured for more than 5,000 years. The Chinese writing system is the only...
In addition, in order to prompt and encourage students to reference this explanatory glossary, I include the Chinese characters and the romanization for these key terms along with their "placeholder" translations within the translated texts themselves, making the point that a new set of inadequate ...
born with both “American” and Korean names with meanings that are drilled into them because for them the default will be BOTH/AND because being Korean American with each generation brings another level of beauty, complexity, similarities, and differences. Ji-Young...
The double happiness symbol is also a popular symbol at Asian weddings. This is because the two standard characters that make up the symbol, (hsi), are synonymous with happiness. The symbol is also a common element of feng shui, which is an ancient art of placement that tries to balance ...
The concept of fire carries significance for each of the three main characters, with the joint lowering Ah-in’s defences enough that he reveals a traumatic memory from his past, while Yuen discloses his “hobby” of burning down derelict greenhouses. After the scene finishesBurningplunges down...
There are two lines separating the red and the green stripe from the white one, which have the inscription “God is Great” (known as takbir) repeated 11 times and written in Kufic characters, a classical way to write in Arabic. In addition to being the color of Islam, green has a spe...
Maybe if you don’t read any of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) languages, these symbols mean nothing to you. But as a native Chinese speaker, I always wondered, why those particular words? I mean, there are literally tens of thousands of Chinese characters, so why those?
The other stories provide interesting glimpses into the experiences of characters with various backgrounds. In "For What They Shared," a Chinese immigrant and an American born Chinese woman face each other at a distance across a divide manifested in the difference between the immigrant woman's ...
Chinese writing has a history of over 5,000 years. Amazingly it is a written language that is still in use today. The Art of Calligraphy~the art of writing beautiful characters, is an art form that has been compared to a dance of the brush, the taichi of ink, etc. Those who apprecia...
While most East Asian languages use--or had used--the Chinese script, only the Chinese use the characters as the predominant way of naming elements. On the other hand, the Japanese and Koreans primarily employ native alphabets for the names of the elements (Katakana and Hangul, respectively)...