Articles About the Chinese Language

One of our dedicated readers here at clb used the Ask a Question feature to submit the following question:

My Chinese bro Wang Meng taught me to say "change" at a Chinese restaurant in Milan because I needed to ask for change and I don't speak Italian.

腕 = wan4 = wrist.

We recently studied the important vocabulary surrounding the words strip tease, and mummy strip tease. After these posts, I received a barrage of requests to explain how to say clam strip tease. So here goes.

The Chinese call the strip tease 脱衣舞. 

This will be a short article. Mummy in Chinese is 木乃伊 = mu4 nai3 yi1 = wood/tree + /to be/thus/so/therefore/then/only/thereupon/ + corpse.

The phrase "happy hour" in Mandarin is almost exactly what you'd expect.

Baidu is the top search engine in China. According to an interesting interview with CEO Robin Li, they have 99% of search marketshare in China with 420 million active users. They also have a $40 billion market cap and are listed on the Nasdaq. That's pretty hardcore.

Normal Gmail threads include something like this before each message in the thread:

(Note: I went with a stylized image to maintain some small modecum of decorum in this article.)