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Posted on: The Final Jizhou Pieces
November 22, 2009 at 2:21 AMHi ioaadafa
You should be more specific, which enables Cpod staff to efficiently improve their products.
Posted on: Expressing Location with 边 and 面
November 22, 2009 at 1:56 AMThe basic (or original) meaning of 对面 is "face to face", just like 对面谈话，and "oppsite" is a derivative/secondary meaning. And this is the reason you can say 对面, but not 对边. The usage of 对面, as a direction word, is the same as words such as 前面 and 左面.
Posted on: Expressing Location with 边 and 面
November 22, 2009 at 12:23 AM"对面" is grammatically a little different from other "directional words" such as 前面，上面 and 左面. The basic meaning of "对面" is "face to face". The same holds for 对脸 (dui4lian3, face to face).
Posted on: Using a Character Dictionary
November 21, 2009 at 3:00 AM部首法以外，中国还有一个检字法叫“四角号码”。正如其名，每个汉字按四角笔形取号，比如说“颜”字的四角号码是0128。在你无法确定部首的时候，用四角号码来查字比较方便。
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Corner_Method
Posted on: Using a Character Dictionary
November 20, 2009 at 2:38 PM其实中国小学生用的语言工具书最适合我们中文学习者的需求。
Posted on: A Phone Call to the Moving Company
November 20, 2009 at 2:21 PMHi siteng
The correct tone is "she3 bu de". The same is always true, perhaps, for "～不得" placed after a verb.
Posted on: Shut up!
November 20, 2009 at 1:56 PMHi shanghaichanges
Without the "会", you have to call police immediately to save your life.
Posted on: Using a Character Dictionary
November 20, 2009 at 12:45 PM和中国古人用的字典相比，现在我们用的中文字典要方便得多，查字并不太难，至少可以说"能查"。比如说，《说文解字》(公元100) 竟然按五百四十个部首编排汉字，而且部首和文字的排列方法既独特又很复杂，所以一般人几乎无法查到目标字。顺便说一下，现在大多数汉语字典都采用笔画排序法，也就是说，按笔画的多少把部首和汉字排列。
其实这个很合理的方法只有四百年的历史。中国历史上第一次全面采用这个排序法的字典是明代末梅膺祚编辑的《字汇》。这个字典另有一个很重要的特点。编者梅膺祚"很勇敢地"把传统部首数量削减到一半以下，结果《字汇》只有二百十四个部首，后来《康熙字典》也继承和《字汇》同样的部首分类与排序法。可见，《字汇》对中国字典发展的贡献非常大。
我们中文学习者也应该感谢梅膺祚！
Posted on: Love Tangle 5: The Mistress
November 20, 2009 at 3:04 AMHi halloweenhoek,
South Korean society has been more heavily influenced by 儒教 (Confucianism) than China has, even though 儒教 is originated in China. "Pecking order/hierarcy" is very important in Korean society, and this is the reason "哥" and "姐" are commonly used among Korean people just to show "who is superior". I heard somewhere that Korean guys often ask people's age even when they pick a quarrel/fight on the street. I don't know if it's true, hehe.
Posted on: Using a Character Dictionary
November 22, 2009 at 3:37 AMI always wonder what percentage of lerners of Mandarin actually have a paper Chinese dictionary.