More About Morphemes in Chinese: A Beginner’s Guide to Word Building When learning Chinese, we often focus on words. But behind every word is a…
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What Is a Morpheme? Understanding the Smallest Meaningful Units in Chinese
In Chinese linguistics, a morpheme (語素) is the smallest unit of language that carries meaning It can be a single syllable or multiple syllables, and…
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From Topic to Meaning: Understanding Mandarin’s Topic-Prominent Sentence Structure
What Is a Topic-Prominent Language? In linguistics, a topic-prominent language organizes sentences around a topic and a comment, rather than strictly following subject-verb-object roles. This…
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Understanding Basic Word Order in Chinese: SVO
In linguistic typology, SVO stands for Subject–Verb–Object This means that in a sentence, the subject comes first, followed by the verb, and then the object.…
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Understanding the Features of Modern Chinese
In Hong Kong, we commonly refer to the Chinese language as “中文” It belongs to the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. Compared to…
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What Is an Analytic Language?
An analytic language is a type of language classification, opposite to synthetic languages The most well-known analytic language is Chinese. Interestingly, some languages that weren’t…
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鑱: Describe tools or actions that are not commonly used in daily life and are difficult Chinese characters with low frequency of use (with Cantonese and Mandarin pronunciation)
The Chinese word【鑱】that we will introduce this time is a word that describes a tool or action. It is mainly used for the following meanings:…
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鑷: Describes tools or actions, with limited usage, advanced Chinese characters that you need to learn if you want to challenge yourself (free learning resources)
The Chinese character【鑷】(tweezers) that I will teach you today is a word that describes a tool or an action. It is mainly used for the…
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鑼: Describing culture or music, the Chinese characters you need to learn if you want to become a near-native Chinese speaker (a simplified version of the dictionary)
The Chinese character【鑼】that we will explain today is a word that describes culture or music. It is mainly used for the following meanings: A percussion…
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鑾: Describing culture or objects, the usage is limited, and you need to learn advanced Chinese characters if you want to challenge your ability (with basic explanations)
The Chinese character【鑾】is used to describe culture or objects, and is mainly used for the following meanings: Bells used by the ancient royal family. Here’s…
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