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One of our dedicated readers here at clb used the Ask a Question feature to submit the following question:
" I need to know the chinese symbol for the words clam and claw thank you very much "
The word for clam was covered in a recent... Read More
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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.
He said you can take the word for "hard" (which also means "stiff" and "firm"), which is 硬,... Read More
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腕 = wan4 = wrist.
华 = hua1 = flower.
腕华 = wan4 hua1 = wrist flower = corsage.
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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.
It's pretty easy to say... Read More
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The Chinese call the strip tease 脱衣舞.
脱, pronounced tuo1, means to shed, to take off, to escape, or to get away from
衣, pronounced yi1, means clothes
舞, pronounced wu3, means to dance, to wield, or to brandish
So,... Read More
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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 first word sounds like moo, like a cow says moo.
The second word sounds like nigh, as in... Read More
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The phrase "happy hour" in Mandarin is almost exactly what you'd expect.
Start with the word for happy, which is 快乐, pronounced kuai4 le4. (The word 快 actually means "fast", "quick" or "swift", and the word 乐 means "happy",... Read More
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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 .... Read More
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Normal Gmail threads include something like this before each message in the thread:
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Friend's Name < friend'semail@emailprovider.com > wrote:
In a thread with Wang Meng the other day, I noticed the... Read More
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(Note: I went with a stylized image to maintain some small modecum of decorum in this article.)
First, take the word 拉, pronounced la1, which means pull, draw, drag, tug, transport by vehicle, haul, move (as in troops to a place), drag out,... Read More
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