Articles About the Chinese Language

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The modern character of child is 儿 (=er2 or er0).  It's in many words having to do with child: 儿子 (=er2 zi0, son), 儿童 (=er2 tong2, children), 儿孙 (er2 sun1, grandchildren).

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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.