from; via; passing through; through (a gap); past; ever (followed by negative, meaning never); (formerly pr. zong4 and related to 縱|纵) to follow; to comply with; to obey; to join; to engage in; adopting some mode of action or attitude; follower; retainer; accessory; accomplice;...
Just like pain and pain (meaning bread in French), gift and Gift (meaning poison in German), embarrassed and embarazada (meaning pregnant in Spanish), there are also false friends in CJK languages, especially between Chinese and Japanese. Questions about Hanzi, Kanji, and Hanja Are Hanzi, Kan...
Learning Chinese characters has never been so fun and easy. This app helps you learn Mandarin Chinese and understand meaning. Designed for beginners. Fun for ev…
aSincere, well-meaning & driven person with a cheeky sense of humour. Work in the wine industry and enjoy it, so naturally I'm a foody too. Studied literature at University, well-traveled yet still have ambition to see and do more. And I think the meaning of life is to have fun or...
On the other hand, we'd loose compatibility to KanjiVG in that regard. Input welcome! Here's the meaning of the currently used Japanese names: Tare: to the left and top, e.g. 厂 or 广 Nyo: to the left and bottom, e.g. 辶 (it seems that Chinese uses left/right for this, but...
Hieroglyphics are beautiful because I'm not trying to understand their meaning, I just enjoy their beauty. Learning them is a painful processes of rote memorization I have seen no evidence that there is a logical basis to the formation of the characters. Of course there is some logic in tryi...
Mandarin writing system does not allow deconstruction of letters to form different syllabus or phonemes like in English and Malay. In Mandarin, a simple change of a stroke in a word might change the word and its meaning entirely. Thus, learning to write Mandarin correctly could be the ...
5.0 • 2 Ratings Free Offers In-App Purchases Screenshots iPad iPhone Description Learning Chinese characters has never been so fun and easy. This app helps you learn Mandarin Chinese and understand meaning. Designed for beginners. Fun for everyone. ...
basic medical knowledge into Han characters was done by people who chose to translate each term according to its root (a 'calque'). In English the same medical terms are represented phonetically, which means that unless you've studied Latin or Greek the root meaning of the word is hidden....
foreman (pidgin derived from "number one", rendered inhanzi) (old) 憨子 hān zi (dialect) simpleton idiot fool 衍声复词Trad.衍聲複詞 yǎn shēng fù cí compound word such as 玫瑰[mei2 gui1], 咖啡[ka1 fei1], whose meaning is unrelated to the componenthanzi, which often cannot be used...