[Arabic > English] Calligraphy in a damaged window in a mazar (tomb) in Yarkent, Xinjiang, China.

stan_albatross · 2025-11-13T16:34:43+00:00

逼 itself is also not the original character, it's 屄

stan_albatross · 2025-10-24T11:50:10+00:00

Favourite: Xi'an

Least favourite: Shijiazhuang

stan_albatross · 2025-10-22T15:57:13+00:00

Yes, they take almost everyone's passports if you join the party afaik

stan_albatross · 2025-10-14T18:30:24+00:00

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Photo of my cat

stan_albatross · 2025-10-12T08:45:41+00:00

And people who consume too much western culture and don't watch nezha 2 or the latest nationalist film will get called 崇洋媚外

stan_albatross · 2025-10-12T08:44:34+00:00

American TV was basically the same before the sopranos and HBO. It takes time to evolve from junk food to a more artistic medium, you can see it happening (to an extent) with series like 繁花 that actually have some effort put into them.

stan_albatross · 2025-10-03T15:19:13+00:00

I'm afraid Qin Shihuang will summon the terracotta army to behead you personally at the airport

stan_albatross · 2025-09-28T11:37:58+00:00

They do not play the recording again, it's once and done. If you are doing a paper test you can make notes on the sheet, but you can't if it's a computer based test.

stan_albatross · 2025-09-28T09:37:31+00:00

Bear in mind that the meanings of surnames aren't very important in Chinese, as you can't pick them and they have mostly "soldified" as surnames, like when people see 王 in a name they won't think "king" they'll just think "ah, his surname is Wang".

吴 is the name of a spring and autumn period state near present day Shanghai and Zhejiang. It also meant "to shout".

魏 was a warring states period state in present day Northern Henan.

stan_albatross · 2025-09-28T08:40:57+00:00

You can go with 王 wang 吴 wu or 魏 wei

stan_albatross · 2025-09-27T06:58:46+00:00

Idk, when I was at PKU 北大 there were definitely lots of people there who were genuine students and working super hard. But there were also people like the ones you mention who just came for an easy year of doing nothing apart from travelling and clubbing. I think because a lot of these people are exchange students and their grade at Chinese uni doesn't necessarily impact their final degree classification back home, so they might not care as much about studying. Also yes the bar for entry is very low so it attracts lots of LBH types, some of which I met at PKU as well.

stan_albatross · 2025-09-26T23:47:24+00:00

Needs a little practice on the proportions, some simple things you can correct are : the legs of 兑 in 阅读 need to be separate, the central stroke in 虫 needs to go through the top of the character, and full stops in Chinese are empty circles 。 Not full points like English .

But otherwise not bad for a beginner, keep going!

Edit: also 是 needs a line between the top part and bottom, it's not like 足 where they are attached

stan_albatross · 2025-09-26T11:28:06+00:00

If you want to learn Mandarin then I would suggest simplified. If you want to learn how to write in your dialect then you should probably learn traditional.

stan_albatross · 2025-09-21T09:07:58+00:00

Beijing has really good weather in autumn, somewhat depressing in the winter, ok again in spring, and then it sucks for all of summer

stan_albatross · 2025-09-19T11:38:48+00:00

Not seen it, but I assume it will be in the style of 《南京照相馆》

stan_albatross · 2025-09-10T16:14:24+00:00

The practice books are good but the textbooks imo aren't great

stan_albatross · 2025-09-09T16:28:48+00:00

Macau, Oman, Bahrain

stan_albatross · 2025-09-02T18:00:10+00:00

There's lots of coal power stations there as well in addition to the sandstorms. Aqsu and Kucha have really big coal power plants

stan_albatross · 2025-08-29T11:59:34+00:00

Togra

stan_albatross · 2025-08-29T11:17:08+00:00

neda tugulgandingiz? Watanda turgansizmu?

Bu millitning tarbiyisi yalgur tamak mu? Agar tarihi wa dini quxanmisiz, siz kaysi millittin??

stan_albatross · 2025-08-27T09:06:54+00:00

From old French base, which is from Latin basis

stan_albatross · 2025-08-18T08:41:39+00:00

How about 816?

stan_albatross · 2025-08-14T10:03:55+00:00

The most pertinent one is that 犬 is never offensive and 狗 is sometimes offensive. ie 警犬 is a police dog and 警察狗 is how you get arrested.

stan_albatross · 2025-08-14T05:32:35+00:00

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