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.
When to write ü, what apostrophes do, and where tone marks go.
"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.
Chinese does not have an alphabet like English or Spanish. Instead, it is written with characters called hànzì (汉字).
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.
Pinyin is the official romanization system for Standard Mandarin Chinese. It uses the Latin alphabet to represent the pronunciation of Chinese characters.
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.
