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I like thinking about familiar things that turn out to have surprising back stories. The modern Chinese second-person singular pronoun 你 (Mandarin nǐ, Cantonese nei5 or lei5) is one of
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A good dictionary (whether Korean-Korean or Korean-your_language) will indicate word structure and show compound tensing. In this example, the 빱 in brackets and the "q" in the romanization both show
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So here’s a cool thing about the Korean word “bibimbap” 비빔밥—aside from the fact that it’s the name of a delicious, healthy, and versatile food. The letter ㅂ appears
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In this thread I’m going to talk about one of my favorite etymologies. The history of this word has got it all: it’s a fascinating tale of multi-lingual and multi-cultural
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Last month I presented seven sentences in seven different languages, all written in a form of the Chinese-character script. The challenge was to identify the languages and, if possible, provide
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Let’s talk about the commonly-occurring Chinese character 得. You probably haven’t thought too much about it because it’s so familiar. But there is something odd about it. And if you
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Have you ever noticed that there is something strange about the Mandarin word for gas, wǎsī? Looking at the written form 瓦斯, it just doesn’t seem like a normal Chinese
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A seemingly bizarre editorial error in a Taiwanese children’s book has a lot to tell us about the history of Chinese characters as they’ve traveled from China to Japan—and back
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