‘Breakup insurance’ on Taylor Swift’s love life goes viral on China’s Taobao
If you are hunting for the unusual or eccentric goods, Taobao, China's largest online shopping site, will be your treasure-trove. Boasting around 760 million products for sale at any one …
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How to say ‘plus, minus, mutiply, divide’ in Chinese
In our daily life, sometimes we need to deal with digits by arithmetics. How can we say "plus/minus/multiply/divide" in Chinese? 日常生活中，有时我们会遇到“加减乘除”四则运算，这时该如何用中文表达呢？ 等号(děng hào)/等于(děng yú)/= equal/make 加号(jiā hào)/加(jiā)/+ plus/add qī …
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How to say good luck in Chinese
Learn Chinese word for "good luck": 好运 (hǎoyùn), 幸运 (xìngyùn), and 福 (fú), and see examples of how they are used. Learn to wish "good luck" to others! 学习用汉语表达“good luck”：好运(hǎoyùn)、幸运(xìngyùn)、福(fú)，通过例句学习它们的用法，为他人送上祝福。 …
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Will male teachers salvage Chinese boys’ masculinity?
Teacher, who imparts knowledge and educates people, is regarded as the most glorious profession in the world, but there exists a historical dilemma—a lack of male teachers. Male teachers are …
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Chinese characters with the same components in different placement
Different characters with same components 一样的偏旁部首，不一样的汉字 When I learn characters, I rely heavily on my understanding of how Chinese characters work (particularly when it comes to phonetic components), but I …
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How to tell 本来 (běn lái) from 原来 (yuán lái)
If something was originally a certain way, or "should be" a certain way, two words, "本来" (běn lái) and "原来" (yuán lái), are often used in daily Chinese conversation. Sometimes …
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Five words meaning judging and assessing in Mandarin Chinese
The words 'to judge' and 'to assess' have quite a few different but related meanings. In Mandarin, a lot of these meanings are covered by one of the five words …
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Is China’s two-child policy good news or another dilemma?
To ease the country's ageing problem, China has further relaxed its more than three-decade family planning policy, and started carrying out the two-child policy for all couples in the country, …
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Top 10 lucky Chinese characters
Before the Spring Festival in 2015, the luxury brand Burberry put a new Chinese-style scarf on the market. The scarf is embroidered with the Chinese character "fu" (福), which means …
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Repeat a verb to express ‘a little bit’ in Chinese
One of the fun things about Chinese is that when speaking, you can repeat certain things to express "a little bit." In this article you'll learn how to do …
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