Wednesday, March 10, 2021

Chinese Words with "Road" 中文單詞 "路"


Chinese Words with "Road" 中文單詞 "路"

Example Sentences:

我往哪里去,你们知道。那条路,你们也知道。
You know where I'm going. You know that road, too.

我上班走很远的路。
I go far to my work.

哪一路病?
What kind of disease is this?

路很远。
It's a long way.

我实在没路可走了。
I'm really at a dead end.

Nouns:

路 road, way, path, route, pathway, pad
道路 road, path, way
道 road, path, way, Taoism, doctrine, principle
馬路 road, street
途 way, road, route
陌 street, road, path
阡 footpath, road
方法 method, way, means, modus, fashion, medium
路 road, way, path, route, pathway, pad
途徑 way, approach, channel, canal
辦法 way, method, means, resource, modus operandi, instrument
道路 road, path, way
道 road, path, way, Taoism, doctrine, principle
路徑 path, route, way
方 direction, way, involution, locality, power, region
途 way, road, route
法 law, France, way, rule, dharma, sample
中途 halfway, midway, way
樣 kind, sample, type, pattern, way, appearance
路線 route, line, path, way, itinerary, political course
作法 practice, method, way, modus operandi
作風 style, way
逕 diameter, path, way
徑 path, track, way, footpath, means
般 sort, kind, way, manner, class
狀態 status, condition, mode, position, state of affairs, way
繇 forced labor, source, grounds, instrument, means, way
路徑 path, route, way
路 road, way, path, route, pathway, pad
通路 path, access, passageway, route, thoroughfare, chain
道路 road, path, way
逕 diameter, path, way
徑 path, track, way, footpath, means
道 road, path, way, Taoism, doctrine, principle
路線 route, line, path, way, itinerary, political course
軌道 track, orbit, trajectory, path, course
方向 direction, path
軌 rail, track, path, course
走道 aisle, walk, path, footpath, sidewalk, pavement
陌 street, road, path
蹊 footpath, trackway, lane, path, pathway, trod

Adverb:

非常 very, extremely, highly, so, much, way

Tuesday, March 9, 2021

今, 令, 冷 And More Easily Confused Chinese Characters


今, 令, 冷 And More Easily Confused Chinese Characters

Easily confused Chinese characters look similar, but not exactly the same.

Examples:

水 氷 永

下 卞

矢 失 先 夭

夭 天 夫 无

刀 万 方

人 入

又 夂 攵 女 夕

船 般

大 丈 尢 犬 太 尤 六 穴

艮 良 (also 食, 退, and 民)

厅 庁

压 庒

厎 底

厙 庫 (厍 库)

厠 廁

厦 廈

厪 廑

日 白 曰 臼

尸 戶 户 戸

目 自 且

往 住 隹 信

専 尃

未 末

史 吏 更

甲 申 由 (also 田)

More Examples:
甲: 押 岬 匣 鴨
申: 神 伸 紳 呻 暢
由: 油 抽 軸 柚 岫 蚰 釉 届 鼬
contrast: 押 抽 ; 岬 岫

西 酉

洒 酒

可 司 (also 句 包)

何 伺

卬 卯

充 㐬

瞨 曗

佘 余

貝 見

辛 幸 㚔 羍

易 昜

巾 帀 市

帥 師 帅 师

鳥 烏 (and corresponding simplified: 鸟 乌)

用 角

角 甬

冓 黄 (also 黃)

構 横

召 叧 另

招 拐

害 呈

売 壳

巷 巻

戊 戌 戍 / 或 咸 / 成 戉

惑 感

弋 戈

比 此

侖 俞

論 諭, 輪 輸, 惀 愉

平 乎

子 于 干 千

字 宇, 孟 盂, 仠 仟, 奸 奷

斤 斥

目 耳

己 已 巳

具 真 直 貝

惧 慎; 椇 槙 植

垂 重

錘 鍾

奉 奏 秦 泰

棒 榛, 俸 傣

犮 发

拔 拨

免 兔 鬼

衣 农

车 东 乐

夏 复

进 近

扌 牜 土 (as left radical, as in 地)

掘 堀 担 坦 提 堤

禅 褝

冖 宀 亠 (and 一)

冝 宜, 冢 冡 家, 冨 富, 冩 寫, 冦 寇

兀 㓁 冘 穴 (and 几)

沈 枕 耽 鴆.

六 穴, 壳 売, 殼 殻

夂 攵 (also 女)

寉 隺

券/拳

春/奉

彐 ヨ

父 乂/㐅 交

師 官 呂

度 席

微 徴 徵

侯 候

殻 穀

集 隼

豕 㒸

逐 遂

賃 貸

鈎 鉱

劇 慮 虚 戯 膚

熱 熟

Chinese Phonetic-Semantic Compounds 中文語音-語義復合詞


Chinese Phonetic-Semantic Compounds 中文語音-語義復合詞

Semantic-phonetic compounds in Chinese are interesting.

Chinese characters have a lot of meaningful information (for understanding) carried in them already. However, it might not be immediately obvious to beginners how this information is structured and how to access it.

Semantic-phonetic compounds (the name sounds difficult, but is not really) is a common category. Semantic means related to meaning and phonetic means related to sound. This means that it is a character consisting of one part giving the character its meaning and another part giving it its sound.

For example, 洋 (yáng) "ocean" consists of two parts, 氵 (shuǐ) "water" and 羊 (yáng) "sheep". Obviously, the meaning is unrelated to sheep, the sheep is there to give the character its pronunciation. The water is there to give the character its meaning.

It seems that "spoken Chinese" emerged before the written language. That means that people used much more words than they had characters for. When they wanted to use a character to write something new, they took a character that was related to the meaning of what they wanted to express and combined it with another character which was pronounced in the same or at least a similar way.

Interesting characters:

With dot : 娘, 浪, 狼, 莨, 阆, 琅, 稂, 锒, 粮, 蜋, 酿, 踉

Without dot : 艰, 限, 垦, 很, 恨, 狠, 退, 垠, 哏, 恳, 根, 痕, 眼, 银, 裉, 跟

You could learn this by remembering if there should be a dot or not. If you know that 良 and 艮 are the phonetic components of these characters, you just need to know the pronunciation. Characters containing 良 mostly end in -ang or -iang, whereas those that contain 艮 usually ends in -in or -en (in any case not -ng).

Chinese Etymology: 空 - empty


Chinese Etymology: 空 - empty

空 means "hollow" or "empty". It looks like tent opening (穴). There is nothing inside. Here 工 (gōng) is just a phonetic element.

Etymology is certainly the study of the history of words. By extension, the etymology of a word means its origin and development throughout history.

Example Sentences:

罐子是空的。
The jar is empty.

这房间是空的。
The room is empty.

盒子几乎是空的。
The box is almost empty.

他坐在一张空桌旁。
He's sitting at an empty table.

在盒子里有些空瓶。
There are some empty bottles in the box.

他把空听头扔掉了。
He chucked away the empty tin.

Adjectives:

虛 false, empty, vain, weak, timid, fake
乾 dry, male, empty, hollow, strong
徒 bare, empty
廓 wide, empty, big, open
匱 deficient, exhausted, lacking, empty
瞎 blind, reckless, vain, crooked, curved, empty
空的 empty, hollow, leary, unfruitful, unoccupied, vacant
空虛的 blank, empty, flatulent, hollow, inane, moonshiny
空腹的 empty, hollow
空洞的 barren, empty, frothy, hollow, inane, tenuous

Nouns:

枵 hollow of a tree, empty
匱 lack, empty
空的東西 empty
空物 empty

Verbs:

傾倒 dump, pour, tip, empty, topple over, greatly admire
注入 inject, implant, infuse, pour, impregnate, empty
傾 pour, incline, bend, lean, collapse, empty
傾卸 dump, empty, pour, tip

Adjectives:

凹陷 depressed, sunken, hollow
凹 concave, hollow, sunken, dented
洼 hollow, low-lying
窾 hollow, ignorant
乾 dry, male, empty, hollow, strong
空的 empty, hollow, leary, unfruitful, unoccupied, vacant
空腹的 empty, hollow
空虛的 blank, empty, flatulent, hollow, inane, moonshiny
空洞的 barren, empty, frothy, hollow, inane, tenuous

Nouns:

芤 hollow, scallion stalk
樹洞 hollow
坳 depression, hollow, cavity
阬 pit, hollow, ditch, cavity
廋 hollow, bend, curve, intensification, winding

Adverb:

截然 completely, sharply, a fond, fully, hollow, integrally

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Taipei 台北
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Population of Taiwan 台灣人口
Taiwan population 台灣人口
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Taiwan flag 台灣國旗
Map of taiwan 台灣地圖
Taiwan earthquake 台灣地震
Is Taiwan part of China 台灣是中國的一部分嗎
What time is it in Taiwan 台灣現在幾點
Taiwan language 台灣語
Where is Taiwan 台灣在哪裡
Taiwan semiconductor 台灣半導體
Is Taiwan a country 台灣是一個國家嗎
Yahoo Taiwan news  雅虎台灣新聞
Current time in Taiwan 台灣時間
Taiwan President 台灣總統
Kaohsiung 高雄
Kaohsiung City (高雄市)

Kaohsiung is a massive port city in southern Taiwan. It's home to many skyscrapers, such as the 248m-tall Tuntex Sky Tower. Its focal point is the Love River, with walking paths and cafes along its banks, and cruise boats navigating its waters. Shopping options certainly range from high-end malls to the Liuhe and Ruifeng night markets.

Taiwan currency 台灣貨幣
Capital of Taiwan 台灣首都
Google news Taiwan - Google 新聞台灣
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Take a look at the interesting decomposition the Chinese character 我  wǒ  ‘I’ :

丿 piě slash,

找 zhǎo look for,

扌 shǒu hand,

一 yī one,

亅 jué hook,

戈 gē spear,

弋 yì shoot,

一 yī one,

丿 piě slash,

丶 zhǔ dot,     

我  wǒ ‘I’  : 丿找扌一亅戈弋一丿丶

That helped you to understand the different parts of the character.

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The Chinese language is certainly the oldest written language in the world. It has least six thousand years of history. The Chinese written language uses single distinctive symbols, or characters, to represent each word of the vocabulary. The vast majority of characters are written versions of spoken sounds that have meaning. An important large dictionary usually contains 40,000 characters.

To read a newspaper, a person usually should be able to recognize 2,000 to 3,000 characters. The written system has been altered over time due to various interesting historical changes. However, the principles of the language (and the symbols and characters) have remained basically the same.

Many Chinese dialects exist. The written language can be further subdivided into three forms: simplified, traditional, and informal slang or phonetic. There is also a certain form called "pin-yin." This is the Chinese language transcribed using a roman spelling.

China is officially the People's Republic of China (PRC). This is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country. It had a population of around 1.4 billion in 2019.

China emerged as one of the world's first civilizations, in the so-called fertile basin of the Yellow River in the North China Plain.

The invention of gunpowder and movable type in the Tang dynasty (618-907) and Northern Song (960-1127) completed the Four Great Inventions.

China has been characterized as an emerging superpower, mainly because of its large wealthy economy, fast infrastructural development, and powerful massive military.

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中文無疑是世界上最古老的書面語言。它至少有六千年的歷史。中文書面語言使用單個獨特的符號或字符來表示詞彙表中的每個單詞。絕大多數字符是具有含義的書面語音版本。重要的大詞典通常包含40,000個字符。

要閱讀報紙,一個人通常應該能夠識別2,000至3,000個字符。由於各種有趣的歷史變化,書面體系已隨著時間而改變。但是,語言的原理(以及符號和字符)基本保持不變。

存在許多中國方言。書面語言可以進一步細分為三種形式:簡體,傳統和非正式語或語音。還有一種稱為“拼音”的形式。這是使用羅馬字母拼寫的中文。

中國正式是中華人民共和國(PRC)。這是東亞的一個國家。它是世界上人口最多的國家。它在2019年的人口約為14億。

在華北平原所謂的肥沃的黃河盆地中,中國成為世界上最早的文明之一。

火藥和火藥的發明在唐朝(618-907)和北宋(960-1127)完成了四大發明。

中國之所以被定為新興的超級大國,主要是由於其龐大的富裕經濟,快速的基礎設施發展以及強大的大規模軍事力量。