Chinese word for crisis
Heard this phrase bandied about so often that I thought I'd check it out.The Chinese word for crisis is the same as that for opportunity.Hmm. Here's what one website has to say:Myth 1: The Chinese...
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A photo-op is an opportunity to take photographs, an opportunity for photos. It may also be an opportunity for the person being photographed, but this is incidental, and not what is meant by the...
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Let me repeat what Faldage just said, with rewording for emphasis:It is almost never a good idea to interpret a Chinese word according to the literal meaning of the two characters used to represent...
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"The meaning of the word in question, weiji, made up of the characters wei and ji, is more correctly read as 'an opportunity for danger.'"That's about right. Ji can mean 'crucial point,' as in shengji...
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I think there may be an error here. Two-character (two-syllable) words are quite common in Chinese ('Mandarin' more than some other dialects). In many cases the two characters taken separately are...
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one of the radicals of a single character is in there to represent the sound.Thanks, Bolang. I was afraid, as I was hitting return, that I had made that mistake. I was working from the Popian curse of...
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Or even - in Pope's oft misquoted words - a little learning.
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I think you guys mean that one of the radicals of a single character is in there to represent the soundRight.
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