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Tom :
Is this why some Chinese people have the same family name but would not have any connection? Ex: Zhang Fei served Liu Bei, Zhang Liao served Cao Cao during the 3 Kingdoms Period.
2025-03-11 03:22:50
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Trazyn's Surrogate Reposts :
We do use sarcasm as a tonal shift to represent the opposite of the sentence subject.
2025-02-22 18:28:39
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Jheasvhenas :
Do you have any tips to recognize Korean name? 😅My girlfriend love kdrama but I’m having trouble with the names, they sound similar to mee. Didn’t have this problem with Chinese names or Japanese
2025-02-14 10:35:23
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Fairy Tzarina :
I am actually waiting for a Liu Cixin book to arrive at my house. I am so excited for The Dark Forest.
2025-02-10 03:52:19
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someDutchguy :
i just wanna know, if it's pronounced as 'ee' why is it written as 'li'?
2025-02-09 10:11:28
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Flying Turtle Bob 🏳️🌈 :
So how do Chinese people know how to write someone's name without the person having to describe in detail which characters to use?
2025-02-08 23:19:05
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Rick :
That’s why smart software devs say “given name” and “family name”!
2025-02-09 13:19:10
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Juno :
Another fun factor to throw in the works is that this can get better or worse depending on the variety of Chinese that the romanisation is based on
2025-02-08 23:46:37
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Mentalgreymon :
does the inverse happen?
2025-02-08 23:20:20
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👻 :
talk about how and why "the" is too complicated in german language
2025-02-08 23:48:30
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Josh H :
how does chinese define lexicographical order? like ordering 26 letters seems straightforward but there are thousands of glyphs in the simplified chinese alphabet, no?
2025-02-09 04:35:42
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g g :
每个声调也就用4-5个字
2025-02-09 10:27:11
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cjohnson530 :
My friends were debating this. How would you pronounce spreak (spring break)? I’ve always said spreek but they say it should be said similar to break.
2025-02-10 02:51:12
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John :
your pronunciation of the tones were so good
2025-02-09 12:53:13
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greeny :
stop stop wait 🫷😭 I just realised, how does Chinese sort by alphabet or whatever the analogy would be? they don't have an alphabet... what about student lists in schools? how do they define order?
2025-02-09 00:22:55
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Madness :
You did pretty good with the tones :D good job!
2025-03-27 14:54:00
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notsograceful :
There’s a computer graphics concept that ended up with the guy’s given name when they meant to use his family name
2025-02-09 04:07:32
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jj :
I love how Liu Cixin was used as an example
2025-02-09 03:53:39
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The gay son in question😝 :
In Czech you can write it both ways. Your first name first and than your surname but in more serious papers the surname goes first(if you are Czech as well and I am just writing nonsense tell me)
2025-02-11 19:48:50
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sewdoylie :
And that's not even getting into how confusing it is for English speakers that China has a preferred 100 surnames.
2025-02-28 18:10:16
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freaky_walnut_stan :
More Chinese content! 🙌🏻
2025-02-09 02:33:08
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plainlycomplainingplane :
Haha Liu Cixin the three bodies problem series was so good
2025-02-11 03:26:39
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MaddoScientisto :
What if you translate the meaning of the characters instead?
2025-03-13 07:20:51
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Shaman B :
Check out the Kanji Keyboard, it’s ingenious, and allowed for much of the characters to fit into a 4-block character.
2025-03-04 20:23:28
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