App-based dictionaries like Chinesimple offer several advantages over traditional paper dictionaries when it comes to looking up words in Mandarin Chinese
Searching for a word in a Chinese paper dictionary can be challenging due to the nature of Chinese characters, but it's not impossible.
Mahjong is played with four players and a set of 144 tiles. The tiles are used to form combinations and earn points.
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The decoding systems in some foreign languages enable non-native speakers to produce sounds resembling more closely the sounds of the Chinese language.
"Erhua" 儿化/兒化 (érhuà) refers to the fact of adding a final “-r" sound to a syllable. It is prevalent in the Beijing dialect but it is also a Standard Chinese feature.
When talking about the Chinese alphabet, you are referring to its characters, the smallest writing-unit with symbols that represent whole words and which can be grouped together in order to create other words.
Chinese Classifiers are "special characters" used along with numbers to define the quantity or with demonstratives to identify the object.
The writing does tell us that the Chinese characters appeared more than three thousand years ago from a combination of abstract signs.
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Pinyin is the romanized form of the Chinese based on the pronunciation.
The new HSK standards divide Chinese proficiency into 9 levels, which are themselves divided into 3 stages.
HSK is the standardized expertise test for language proficiency in Mandarin in the People's Republic of China for non-native speakers.
