Chinese Speaking Fans

Actualy, NO. Or more accurately: not intentionally to be complimentary at all. For example, USA is not intentionally meant to be called “beautiful”. We will tell this story by including the Hán Việt version (Sino Vietnamese). You will understand why shortly. Nowadays in Chinese, United States of America is called Mỹ Lợi Kiên hợp chúng …

They are same word, same concept. Old Chinese pronounce it as Teni, directly means the Great Sky. This is Chinese Tian Altar in forbidden city. Emperor pray to Tian every year. We do this ceremony from at least 3500 years ago. Manchus, Mogolian,Han Chinese,and Xiongnu people all belived in Tian The true leader of China called Son of Tian.

Mary is usually written as 玛丽 in Chinese. Sometimes, it could be written as 玛莉 in Chinese. There are well-known people who share this name with you, such as, Mary Pickford, or 玛丽·碧克馥 in Chinese, a legendary figure in the cinema world. Mary-Louise Parker, or 玛丽-露易丝·帕克 in Chinese, another actress in the entertainment industry.

Dui Niu Tan Qin (对牛弹琴) is a well-known Chinese idiom/Chengyu. The idiom is very easy to understand, provided you know the corresponding 4 simple Chinese characters. 对 (duì): Face to face; opposite; opposing 牛 (niú): Cattle; ox 弹 (tán): Play; pluck 琴 (qín): Qin, a seven-stringed plucked instrument 弹琴 (tán qín): play the Qin instrument …

Is Chinese arguably the toughest language in the world for a westerner to master? To speak, read & write in it as good as a native Chinese, would it take the best part of a lifetime? Apart from having official UN status, is it also a world language? Haha. Half yes half no. If you …

1 in 5 Chinese school kids in Malaysia aren’t even Chinese Non-Chinese students comprised 18% of Chinese-language primary schools in 2016, according to Malaysia Education Ministry Statistics, or almost 1 in 5 students. The enrolment of non-Chinese students particularly Malays and Indians actually rose by over 20% between 2010 and 2014. Compared to more than …

While there have been notably successful logographic writing systems, there are specific reasons why the non-phonetic Chinese characters have survived while overall the “phonetic revolution” that gained impetus from the success of the Phoenician alphabet has spread worldwide. In considering the question we must ask both why the phonetic system took over, and why the …