The replies to this advanced test of Chinese as a native language are good. I certainly could not answer all of these, or ad-hoc any really, ermm... soo... *runs off in the other direction to buy a milk tea first
https://twitter.com/Diplateevo/status/1485567073032224769/photo/1
Music for a loud evening. (TIL that is 油漬搖滾 in Mandarin)
TIL How ~2500 years ago the Chinese built their pagodas and roofs earthquake safe. Why, because I had to search for 盔頂 to solve a #wordchain contribution. Not a #Breakfastvideo, but an interesting piece of old wisdom that came my way today.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZmZXlDBN52A
It's crazy to see how wobbly it all looks, but how it all gets locked into place by the immense weight of the roof; and that wobbliness of course affords the flexibility required for the structure to withstand an earthquake without shattering.
#chineselesson #learningchinese #architecture #pagoda #earthquakesafe #foundvocab
In a Mandarin word-chain chat today the innocuous 論壇 for “forum” showed up.
I was having both a fun and hard time to find anything starting with 壇 in my printed dictionaries, to continue the game with. Or even identify one that had the character at all. 壇 tán on its own has strong religious connotation, as in temple or ceremonious arrangement something something.
But. Searched four volumes, no dice. Online, no compound expression (maybe I stopped looking early because felt lightly discouraged). So had to dig into the old 1943 Mathew’s Dictionary that falls apart at the spine to find the one single compound noun 壇場 for “arena”. This family owned volume has proven useful at times.
Phew. I love it to have very reliable resources at hand when I need to. Digging that word up gave me a few happy moments of mild euphoria this morning while searching for and then posting my contribution. So you get to read this, too. :o)
#mandarin #learningchinese #cjk #chineselesson #dictionary #languages