Chinese Family - Grandfather And Grandmother
Because of local traditions, there are some variations on the terminology used for grandparents. For example, grandfather could also be ye ye or zu fu. Grandmother could be nai nai or zu mu. Generally, it does hold true that regardless of what ... [... more]
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Chinese Family – Brothers And Sisters
Speaking of marriage, when a female marries, their "titles" only expand. They remain the sister position of their biological family. They also gain the new title, and a level of the responsibilities and pecking order, of their husband. So a ... [... more]
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Basics Of Chinese Calligraphy
In addition to knowing the strokes, one must know the order in which to write them. Each character has a correct order that the strokes must be laid down in order to be written correctly. The idea behind the order is for practicality. Using a wet ... [... more]
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Language And Dialects
The Chinese dialects are as different from one another as Cockney is to English. For the spoken word, it's near impossible for a person of one dialect to understand someone in another. It's even arguable that within large dialect groups there can ... [... more]
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"How Are You?" In Chinese
In Chinese, to raise the tone on any given character would change its meaning. Inflections and tones are very important to pronunciation in the Chinese language. One common phrase given is "ma(flat) ma(rising) ma(fall-rise) ma(falling)". With ... [... more]
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Chinese Character For Country
The Chinese call their own country, zhong guo. Directly translated, it stands for "center country", a belief among the Chinese that their country was the center of the world. While somewhat egotistical in nature, this concept was central to ... [... more]
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Chinese Character For Faith
What makes this character interesting is that it is formed from two symbols. On the top is the symbol for center. On the bottom is the symbol of the heart. Thus, it implies that the "centering of the heart" is faith. This word normally carries . ... [... more]
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Chinese Character For Happiness
If one could imagine looking at someone from above who is doing the infamous Snoopy dance and beating a drum that would be the image of this character. At the bottom is the symbol of mouth, open and wide ready to shout for joy. At the top is the ... [... more]
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Chinese Character For Love
The Chinese written language is based on ideograms, meaning symbols originally derived from ideas. Within this language, there are over 50,000 distinct combinations of characters that make up the Chinese language. Most people commonly only know a ... [... more]
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Chinese Character For Strength
It is important to note one should not mistaken this character for the very similar one for the number 9, which has a very similar look to it. However, the explanation for the character is different. It is believed that the character for 9 comes ... [... more]
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Chinese Character For Woman
For instance, if you combine the character of woman and put a roof over her head, you end up with the word an, which could means tranquility. One way to interpret this is, one is not happy unless there is a happy woman at home. When there's the ... [... more]
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Counting In Chinese
The abacus is made up of two portions. You start from the left and work your way to the right. The lower part is for counting single entities. When you reach the five along the bottom, you clear the bottom and click a single bead at the top of ... [... more]
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