Fermi’s Paradox (Redux)
We are probably not alone but also probably hundreds of light years at least from the nearest advanced civilization so…
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YEAR OF THE RAT
Gongxi Gongxi Gongxi Ni!
由聯想 字 Cognitive Association of Characters
由聯想 字 = you2 lian2xiang3 zi you2 cause origin source reason following from; one view is this is an ancient…
樹倒猢猻散
Thanks upline! I love you so much and couldn’t do any of it without you! INBOUND TRADTIONAL OUTBOUND Q. 樹…
恐怖分子 “which way the WIND blows”
恐 fear kong Gong on top left is phonetic. 工 Wind or knife on the right shows the wind of…
MON KEY
On the left is the dog determinant: it’s used for four legged furry animals. On the right is hou which…
Vocab w/linkword and concept mnemonics
成功 TO ATTAIN MERIT 旅行 clan flag posted+crossroads=tourism 互联网 hulianwang isn’t WLAN but rhymes. 既然 seit dann jiran 继续 continue jixu…
Nemo me impune lacessit. KF
At my friends I bark loudly; to warn them. But at my enemies, I bite, without barking.
WHAT omission
W.hite => hit H.atred =>red A.s T.errorism =>error =>is m. A CARE LESS ERR OR
白云苍狗 Cheng Yu
Chinese proverbs are often expressed as four character set-expressions. These are called “cheng yu”. Unlike most other languages such proverbs…
6 methods
象形字 pictogram 指事字 ideogram; symbol (indicative character) 会意字 associative idea character; combined ideogram 形声字 pictophonetic character; keyed hieroglyph 转注…
Vocabulary List
基础 招股书 拓展 tuozhan expend 奠定基础 打下基础 基础设施 融资 financing rongzi 云集 微店付费委员 继店 社交 电商 商店 赴约 上线 online…
Kangxi Radicals (Bushou)
Can you learn 214 new letters? Yes you can! Are these 214 letters the basis of ALL other Chinese characters?…
The Three Character Classic 三 字 经 (Zero)
三 字 经 (three character classic) my translation. This is a work in progress. Sanzijing is the canonical children’s school…
Sober to Somber and WHAT to avoid
SABER SOBER SOMBER BOMBER
东拉西扯 East Pull West Tear
东拉西扯 Guilty as charged. This one means idle chit chat; idle about, do nothing but gossip, talk, chat; to drag…
All HSK
HSK1 的 一 是 在 了 有 人 不 国 中 大 年 上 这 个 我 和 日 时…
Review Your Hanzi!
You must repeat something 8 times to remember it. Memory is improved by transforming that to be remembered into some…
人的正确思想是从哪里来的? Where do correct ideas come from?
人的正确思想是从哪里来的? 人 people 的 of, from 正 upright 确 solid (stone+horn=solid) 思thought (my work is on my heart) 想belief (similar…
Transposition Tables: SABER RATTLING
How would one go from SOBER to SABER? Using matrix algebra a problem like this is probably trivial. But could…
实践论 On Practice
实 reality, fact 践 tread, walk 论 theory / discussion The theory of practice shijian lun 论 lun discuss 认识…
National Socialist Democratic Workers Party
Did you see what I did there?
Keyed Columnar Transposition: 密封
密 a bamboo spear handle 必 which must be properly formed underneath a roof 宀 on top of a mountain…
Name as yet unmentioned
WALTS plain text (private, vulnerable to frequency attacks) AAAAT key (private, invulnerable) WALTZ ciphertext (public) This illustrates a weakness in…
Bull in a China Shop
A Bull, of course, is a mafia enforcer. By a strange twist of fate Bulle just-so-happens to be German…
List of Reduplicated Hanzi
list of reduplicated hanzi 炎 从 众 品 磊 双 This is a list of han characters which repeat themselves.…
复杂 IT’S COMPLICATED.
复杂 fuza complicated 复 folded over reduplicated – worker walking around a rotating tool in the middle depicted as 日…
T.ailored A.ccess O.perations 讨
讨论 T.ailored A.ccess O.perations L.inked U.nderground N.odes tongues turning around a wheel 轮 village vies 乡村 words measured 言寸了 words…
Generating Cribs from a Known Plain-Text: in Chinese
Suppose we have obtained a plain text GARDENER for which we know its enciphered value, but do not have the…
Is Santa Claus .. CHINESE? Yes! Let me show you the evidence!
Is Santa Claus .. CHINESE? Let me show you the evidence! 1) Notorious for wearing RED. 2) Loaded down with…
Typo from Hypo…
If AL maps to AF (AL=>AF) then ALL maps to AFF in a monoalphabetic substitution cipher. But in a polyalphabetic…
tree+ax=analyze析 standing+tree=relative亲 relative+ax=new新
析 析 xi1 ANALYZE chop wood into bits to analyze them. tree to the left 木mu4 ax to the right…
杏 xing4 Apricot, Almond
杏 Xing4 Apricot, Almond H.ere’s S.ome I.nteresting N.ew G.ood ALMOND, APRICOT Top tree 木mu resembles a branch and leaves Bottom…
Cannot unsee. 留学生門 , 遛狗。
today i learned that overseas students 留学生門 are, well, a bit like dogs, dogs out for a walk 遛狗。
Demonography
妖 demon 鬼 ghost 魔鬼 devil 吸血鬼 vampire 精灵 elf, sprite, pixie 天使 angel 龙 dragon 凤凰 phoenix 女神 goddess…
List of Chinese Pictograms
I am sure there must be more pictograms than just these. However, this is the closest I have found so…
Associative Idea Characters (会意字）
临 face overlook lin2 乂 regulate govern control yi 乎 question particle, doubt hu1 乍 first time suddenly zha 乔…
丕pi1 grand 胚pei1 embryo
丕 P.retty I.mmense GRAND Compare 亘gen the sun stretching from sky to earth stretching from horizon to horizon stretching all…
乌鸦， 寒风
What’s black as night and has no eyes? it comes to Chinese as no surprise! W.hat? U.mber! CROW 乌鸦 W.alks…
na3li?nali3? 哪里？ 那儿！ na4er! Quickly understanding tones in Chinese
哪里？ na3 那儿！ na4! Where?3 There!4 I think the easiest way for anglos to get tones is to use the…
主 Lord! 注意！ Pay attention! ZHU
主住注驻柱拄疰蛀 主lord owner host 住live dwell reside 注concentrate pour 驻stop stay station 柱column pillar 拄to lean on to prop up…
Deciphering Chinese Characters: Pictogram Palace
Pictogram palace, English language dictionary Chinese character dictionary keyed to Hanzi Gong 汉字宫 Kindle Print Edition Chinese characters combine pictures,…
All HSK characters with 人 determinant in descending frequency
This post lists ALL HSK characters with the 人ren (person) determinant. They all have something to do with people. They…
The Universal Translator: BEER 啤酒
“pee joe” is Chinese for beer. It looks like this 啤酒 jiu3 means any kind of alcohol if you specifically…
VOODOO CHINESE 520
I want to inject you with cock’s blood 打鸡血 because you are a sexy fox spirit! 狐狸精 打鸡血 to motivate…
Learn to read Chinese EASILY with Pictogram Palace.
一 one (sideways Roman I) 十 ten (sideways Roman X) 木 tree (picture of a tree) 米 rice (picture of…
NO ONE KNOWS WHERE THE INFORMATION CAME FROM OR IS GOING TO
皂 seven bright white suns? SOAP ZAO4 Z.ang! A.pply O.rdnung! 白皙 Here’s Something Incredibly WHITE tree+ax=analyze, split split the…
MAGIC Blocks from the eastern quarter. 东方魔块
Ready player one!
Crush scorpions, interrogate criminals, that’s how i roll. 厉害Lihai
厉害lihai44 The closest literal translation would be “terribly” (terribly good, terribly bad). 厉li4 means strict。Image is of scorpions under a…
MAGIC
Chinese is magic! It can turn SOUND 音yin1 into SHADOW 暗an4 亮 LIANG LIGHT L.ight I.s A. N.ice G.odsend LIGHT…
真的假的？
假 = 人+尸+二+丁+又 This character represents the idea of one personren giving and another person receiving something FAKE. Person+Body+2+nail(?)+hand This…
HEAVENSENT
虽然站在黑暗里1244143 sui1ran2 zhan4 zai4 hei1an4 li3 但他们守护是光明41534412 dan4 ta1men5 shou3hu4 shi4 guang1ming2 Altbough standing in darkness they are protecting the…
Carrie Lam 成事不足，败事有余
成事不足，败事有余 Literal meaning: Accomplish affair not foot Lose affair has surplus Carrie Lam is a person who is 成事不足，败事有余. Someone…
Jin1 Xin4 Yin2 Hang2 金信银行
Jin Xin Yin Hang 金信银行 (X in Chinese is pronounced hs or hsh) 金 gold. The dots are the gold…
The School and the Stick 老 者 孝 教 号 考
老 者 孝 教号 考 Sometimes it’s useful to study characters visually by looking at graphically related characters which are…
开关升并廾 Katie bar the door 卡铁把都
开关升并廾 It is useful sometimes to study characters as related visual groups rather than as related phonemes. This is because…
杀鸡取卵
杀鸡取卵 杀sha1 kill slaughter x marks the spot to chop on the log 木 linkword: slaughter, slay 鸡ji1 chicken a…
即既 昏 选择 游客 偏僻 关注 著 省 乡镇
即既 昏 选择 游客 偏僻 关注 著 省 乡镇 即ji2 the man on his knees on the right PROMPTLY, APPROACHED…
忽然 突然
忽 H.asty U.nprepared hu1 is CARELESS 忽 勿 勿 wu4 do not (ancient daggar dao1 刀 with blood 彡shan1 SHADOW…
认识论ren4shi2lun2 epistemology
认识论ren4shi2lun2 epistemology theory of knowledge 觉得jue2de2 to think, to feel 认为ren4wei2 to be of the opinion that 以为yi4wei2 to err.…
Primitive Machines…
机ji1 the first machines were made of wood 木mu4。 几ji is a tea-table. Here however the tea table character is…
绕 挠
挠 nod noggin now SCRATCH forehead with hand pictogram is originally of a potter 儿 with pottery at his kiln…
李紫婷《愛情宗師》
shadowless foot is there any noble style? legs entwined kick you to buddha’s mountain lost track of fists to distinguish…
讨 T.ailored A.ccess O.perations 讨
言 Y.elling A.bout N.oise2 WORDS SPEECH TALKING It’s a mouth 口kou3 at the bottom and sound waves and air are…
戈 我，成，或，战，戏，戴，戒，截，戚 does Scorsese speak Chinese?
戈 我，成，或，战，戏，戴，戒，截，戚 戈ge1 halbred 我wo3 成cheng2 become 或huo4 or 战zhan4 war battle 戏xi trick drama play (“shakespeare” hand+spear=drama) 戴DAI4 to…
Xi West is a Nest 西
西xi1 West is a Nest: 西xi1 is a stylized and simplified picture of a bird’s nest. Because Birds were thought…
Firing Solution： 白天
欠qian4 欠 is a picture of a mouth on top it’s wide open food isn’t going into it words aren’t…
SUBWAYS => SUBSIDE (MSS Decrypt: 地铁)
dirt + double-headed snake + gold + failure = UNDERGROUND 地铁 dietie is a subway alright and by all means…
How to learn Chinese characters (hanzi 汉字）
System: Started out by focusing on the kangxi radicals, once I understood those 213 characters reiterated form (including abbreviated forms)…
A List of Chinese pictographs
Believe it or not these are all pictograms: Highly stylized and simplified pictures of literal objects. Pictograms are the basis…
Who am I? A talking bird 谁, the sun at dawn, upright, once stopped on high. 是
Chinese characters are fundamentally pictures but what is depicted is rarely immediately obvious because of simplification, reuse of pictorial elements…
“Our God is none other than the Chinese people.” Mao Zedong
In “Rules for Radicals” Alinsky teaches a good radical tactic is to point out your opponent’s statements — and then…
Encipher: 厌倦yan4juan and 厌恶yan4wu4
厌倦yan4juan 厌恶yan4wu4 犬quan3 big bad dog mean and mad war dog hunting dog Q.uite U.gly A.nd N.asty VICIOUS GUARD DOG…
生sheng1 EnCIphEREd
生sheng1 S.prout H.ealthy E,ternal N.ew G.ermination SPROUT LIFE LIVE GROW GIVE BIRTH! 生sheng1 is the image of a plant freshly…
歹 dai3 EVIL
挂牛头卖马肉 gua niu2 tou2 mai ma rou Literally “to hang an ox head and sell horsemeat” i.e. to cheat customers.…
我的肚子饿楼！
街jie1 = 行xing2 + 鞋xie2 行xing2 is a cross roads. Memory trick: A CROSSWALK IS A PED XING What…
DECODING SHENG 胜 VICTORY: MSS DECRYPT
This 胜 sheng4 means victory. S.he H.ears E.veryone, E.ternal N.ight G.oddess 胜 is originally the image of a boat on…
爱 ai4
爱 Traditional ai4 has a heart. Simplified doesn’t because it’s a private matter also because communists wanted to emphasize non-romantic…
CRIB: A NATO OF SHOPKEYPRS
你疯啊？ Feng 风 means wind. It’s etymologically related to “sail”. I found 风 easiest to remember as the wind of…
Honey Draws Flies … in Chinese.
苍蝇不叮无缝的蛋 苍 gray (clue:granary 仓) cang1 蝇 flies (bug on left frog on right) ying2 不 don’t (picture of a…
RED TEAM FTW! 圣怪快
圣 S.acred sage saint H.oly he’s E.ternal N.ow G.od SAGE SAINT SHENG4 his Right Hand is once AGAIN touching Dirt.…
幸
Xing4 幸 was originally the image of two people bound by the feet. The 土 and inverted 土 here were…
Cannot Unsee 盒 會
合 He2 Close, Shut, Combine, Join, Fit It’s a pictogram of two mouths kissing! Aw. 🙂 H.is E.xpression CLOSE SHUT…
我的耳机怀了 my earphones are broken
坏 TBH To Be Honest it’s BROKEN TU+BU=HUAI4 Tu 土 T.his U.nearthed clump of DIRT EARTH wall of clay as…
尸屎避辟辛口 刃勿弃廾升𠫓厶
尸 is the ceremonial display of a corpse post-mortem. S.o H.e I.s1 A FUNERARY CORPSE ON DISPLAY The meaning of…
How to learn Hanzi (Chinese characters) 岚
岚 Lan2 Mountain-mist L.iquid A.bove N.ow MOUNTAIN-MIST shAN 山 mountain (pictogram: depicts 3 peaks of mountain range) feng 风 wind…
Grain rained down from heaven, for humans had learned to read. 口儿兄兑说脱
口儿兄兑说脱 口 kou mouth talking ” k.ay, o.pen u.p 儿 er legs standing e.xtensive r.each 八 ba eight (divide) B.reak…
客 ke4 KliEnt guEst
客 Who is a person who walks around under your roof talking talking blablabla? that is a guest, a client,…
父亲 father
父 I was taught fu is a pair of crossed axes as a symbol of father’s power. It may be…
就是你啊！ ：D Then it’s just You! <3
就 Jiu4 Left side is a tall tower as symbol and seat of the capitol itself! 京 jing1 is a…
Nasty.
忠 bullseye target center up top 中 zhong4 heart below 心xin1 忠 it means LOYAL, sounds like zhong1 Z.ealous H.eart…
Confucius’ words are more and more on the lips of the world.
From The Three Character Couplet. “Man at birth Is quite good Their nature, similar but paths diverge.” … “If they…
矢石俱下 the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
矢石俱下 shi3 shi2 ju4 xia4 矢 arrow. it’s a picture of an arrow moving from left or right going over…
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流光飛舞 Flowing light fluttering
流光飛舞 Flowing light fluttering https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htSdR0wIeu4 陳淑樺 詞曲︰黃霑，編曲：雷頌德 半冷半暖秋天 熨貼在你身邊 Half cold, half warm, autumn Reconciled to be next to you 靜靜看著流光飛舞…
Amitoufo
Amida, in the heart space, you teach me don’t covet or hate Amida, in the heart space, throw off the…