HSK5, Lesson 36 Part 1 Vocabulary Flora
养 Yǎng to raise 除非 chúfēi unless 奋斗 fèndòu struggle 乐趣 lèqù pleasure 在乎 zàihū care 朵 duǒ Do…
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Hurricane Angie = Shitstorm = Soon to be History aka Shitstory.
史 Shǐ history 使 shǐ Make 便 biàn Convenient by extension bathroom, including: shit. 更 gèng more 卫星 wèixīng…
HSK5, Lesson 35, part 2
常识 Chángshì Common sense 根 gēn root 吸收 xīshōu absorb 控制 handcavetool+cowturbansword=hand operating to create leather ; thus to…
HSK5, Lesson 35, part 1 Vocabulary 词汇
炎热 yanre scorching hot burning hot寒冷 hanleng cold freezing歇 xie rest 休息 xiuxi (rest) 停止 tingzhi （stop)开水 kaishui boiled water…
HSK5 Lesson 32 nearby 身边的环保 environmental protection
消失 disappear洪水 flood地震 earthquake破坏 destroy砍 fell生存 preserve life沙漠 desert公布 publish数据 data真是 fact夸张 exaggeration自愿 resource车祸 auto accident不安 disquiet工业 industry农业 agriculture, farmer生产…
HSK5 Lesson 31 Vocabulary
门槛 Ménkǎn threshold 报社 bàoshè newspaper office 编辑 biānjí edit(or) 嗯 eń Yes 轻易 qīngyì easily 处理 chǔlǐ handle…
Winding Around Rao Nao 尧
This 尧 is yao, it means to wind twist and turn and sounds like rao. It’s the image of a…
Hsk 5, lesson 34, part 1. 鸟儿的护肤术 The art of birds caring for their wings
接触 contact jie1chu4听觉 hearing视觉 vision角虫觉 sense of touch as in the case of a antenna of an insect特征 characteristic te4zheng1…
HSK5 lesson 29 part 2
生态 ecology商业 business 领域 field domain ling3yu4适当 proper促使 to urge生长 to grow妨碍 hinder fang2ai4促进 accelerate利益 profit benefit li4yi4利润 interest lirun合理-道理…
HSK5, Lesson 33, Part 2 Vocabulary
政府 government 批准=统一 Approved = unified 改革 reform 取消 cancel 行人 pedestrian 广场 square 商务 Business 大厦 building 自愿…
HSK5, lesson 33 part 1, 空气污染
缓解 ease relieve Huǎnjiě 招 trick Recruit zhāo 繁荣 prosperity boom fánróng 体现 reflect reflect tǐxiàn 拥挤 Crowded Crowding yǒngjǐ…
New Space Race: Vocabulary
Whether Washington knows or not it is in a new space race with China to be the first to land…
Vocab List HSK5 Lesson 32 part 2
好运-倒霉 Good luck-bad luck自发-被迫 Spontaneous-forced慢慢-渐渐 Slowly-gradually公共， 集体 Public, collective突然 suddenly尽力 Do your best 幸运 lucky敏感 sensitive自觉 conscious设施 facility能源 energy逐步 Step…
人生/是一场旅程。 Life / is a journy [Learn Chinese! Poetry!]
我们经历了几次轮回， we experience so many reincarnations 才换来这个旅程。 just to exchange places in this journey 而这个旅程很短， but each journey is very…
The Bar Exam Approaches!
Free Law Search Engines http://mindworks.altervista.org Free Legal Commentary (including a couple of free booklets about the bar exam!) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=879868 You…
Memory Keys
The following are mnemonics. ONE GUN A Red point TWO SHOE B Orange a line segment THREE FLEA C Yellow…
С новым годом… 布谷鸟 Брат.
кукушка поет…
Pop Goes the Weasel
ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8z_nR0cOOU Even though it’s old this song is still real hip. broke some records!
Excuse me Mr. Officer
八 兄弟们 用 口 和 言 说 儿子: “你也是兄弟”. 的话了我. 我的心理很悦 言八口儿=说 心八口儿=悦 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0N4twV28Mw
Vocabulary
仄 narrow tilt oblique Zè 广 broad 兼 grasp two things both at once 廉 side wall; incorruptible honest inexpensive…
Look alikes that don’t sound at all alike.
之 Zhī Posessive particle; “of”, ‘s http://hanziyuan.net/#之 乏 Fá Fall short of, to be tired http://hanziyuan.net/#乏 贬 biǎn. Deride, derogatory…
去 大 囗
去 qu to go This character is so simplified/deformed there is almost no point to its etymology. The top plus…
A New Cold War: Global Strategy
Path dependent variables like history economies culture language trade geographye are behind the reasons why the USA and China will…
Clausewitz
Clausewitz was wrong: war, though a political instrument, is not the continuation of politics because in war compromise is always…
西湖水干 雷锋塔倒
西湖水干 雷锋塔倒 xi1hu2 shui3 gan1 lei2 feng1 ta3 dao3 [Until] the West Lake runs dry [or] the thundering tower collapses…
slanguage
zan, as in dian zan is xian xian bei 赞 first first clam = praise zha = explode 炸了 as in…
称程秤(稱) cheng
称 程 秤(稱) cheng 禾he2 grain In the following characters 禾 appears, yet all four 称, 程, 秤(稱), sound like cheng.…
仅 劝 权
仅 劝 权 Often times 又 is used in simplification, often representing something to do with a bird. Usually the simplification is…
票
Piao – Varieties of floating 漂 票 嫖 瞟 瓢 剽 飘 骠 螵 float(water) ticket whoring glance ladle rob float(air) white-horse…
跪举火把虔诚像道光
全世界都在学中国话 Quán shìjiè dōu zàixué zhōngguó huà The whole world is studying Chinese 孔夫子的话越来越国际化 kǒng fūzǐ dehuà yuè lái yuè…
不得不 bu de bu
不得不 bu de bu “I can’t but” or “I can’t help but” or “can’t but” are good ways to remember 不得不 It…
A List of All Chinese Determinants (Pianpang: Side characters)
Determinants (pianpang) play a key role in pictophonetic characters usually operating as a semantic key to the meaning of the…
The Devil’s Diplomatic Dictionary 妖就是妖!
Whilst scrying in my dark glass I crossed upon the strange raspy voices, detached from this world, talking in strange…
The Devil’s Diplomatic Dictionary: Free Sample!
Free Samples: Just like any drug dealers selling you a dream that turns out to be a nightmare Ol’ Nick…
First 元 Playing 玩 in the Courtyard 院 or the Garden 园 Far Away 远
院 元 沅 园 远 yuan4/yuan2/yuan3 courtyard first dollar river far 玩 完 wan2 toy/play finish/complete wan2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5ONvZX2Qmc
How to Learn Chinese Characters Quickly
Go on click the Free sample you know you want to.
The Devil’s Diplomatic Dictionary: Free Supplement
Driplomat: A diplomat with a doctorate; A diplomat who tends to “leak” secret information; A diplomat with no sense of…
Translation Exercise
这是毛泽东的一些要做的事情： 必须发展中国特色社会主义。 必须提倡中国化宗教。 提高道德水平，公民意识和家庭美德。 改善礼节，个人诚信，职业道德。 确保干净的互联网和网络空间。 所有的待办事项都伴随着少量诗歌。 “具有中国特色的社会主义……来自五千年的中国文化……一种健全，以人为本并提高道德标准的文化……。 “还必须鼓励不在党内的知识分子帮助建立中国特色的社会主义。
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Flash
Blood was streaming down her face like tears but more than that fresh dots of flecks of blood on her…
紧张，坚持
紧张 jinzhang 坚持 jianchi Jinzhang means tense, nervous; it’s literally tight+pulled. Jianchi means persistence. Firm base on the left,…
yet another Fine legal question or three
Could Tesla be legally liable to victims of accidents for marketing its vehicles as “self-driving”? Could Tesla be legally liable…
Hanzi in Scorsese’s film “Goodfellas”
I noticed what look to me like a bunch of hanzi in Scorses’s film “Goodfellas” 會 meeting where he is…
COUNTER-STRIKE, COUNTERATTACK 逆袭 nixi42
COUNTER-STRIKE, COUNTERATTACK 逆袭 ni4xi2 Nixies, girl water sprites, doing handstands and acrobatics for the Emperor in his imperial robe to…
RARA AVIS Mnemonic to Transfer Knowledge to Long Term Memory
Interest: You’re likelier to remember whatever interests you. Selectivity: Focus on the relevant ignore the irrelevant Recitation: Read it Out…
把 吧 巴 色 ba
You know how English has him (accusative) and to him (dative)? Chinese doesn’t do that. Nouns don’t decline, there is…
memory tricks
Odd numbers are black. Even numbers are white. 0 is grey, neither even nor odd. In grids: x axis horizontal…
Our common concern 多少的词
This is a frequency list of Mandarin Chinese syllables sorted descending without considering tones. Anyone with a half brain knows…
天地玄黃，宇宙洪荒。
天地玄黃，宇宙洪荒。 tian1 di4 xuan2 huang2, yu3 zhou4 hong2 huang1 heaven earth mysterious-black gold flood, out of practice, uncultivated, desolate Heaven…
colocations with yao shi zhi you
如果 if ruguo 要是 if yaoshi 只有 only zhiyou 只要 as long as
Memory Techniques
Visualise vividly See it Add Emotion What makes something memorable WMMW WMES Involve all senses Acronyms Acrostics Poems Songs Relate…
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Camera Obscura
Does invention follow fiction?
Science faction? In the future the fact that gravity space and time are in fact the same phenomenon will…
Get obtain, possess, dirt. 得的地 得
Get obtain, must 得de/dei Possess 的, de=’s di=aim 目的=mudi, intention dirt. 地 de=-ly di=land 地方 =difang place Someone walking down…
FBI
The first people to insult the police are also generally the first people to call the police for help. They…
Mom, Monster, Mermaid: Free Book For Friday
On Friday and Saturday I am giving away a kids book I wrote called “Mom, Monster, Mermaid“. Feel free to…
赤亦变弃允
亦变赤弃允 These characters all look a bit similar and some of them are even conceptually related. By learning them as…
车到山前必有路，船到桥头自然直
车到山前必有路，船到桥头自然直 Before the cart reaches the mountain there must be a road, a boat which reaches a bridge proceeds naturally.
LOGICAL CONNECTORS IN CHINESE
These are some of the logical connectors in Chinese. 只有。。。就 只有。。。才 既是。。。也 尽管。。。但是 无论。。。都 既然。。。就 与其。。。不如 除非。。。否则 除了。。。都 不管。。。都 不是。。。就是…
合 谷 容 浴
Though they look alike they appear to have no phonetic relationship and are likely associative compound characters (hui yi zi)…
Elon Musk
“Pedo guy” – Elon Musk
I’m going to hide from the U.S prosecutors!
I’m going to hide from the U.S prosecutors! In the USA! They will never think to look there! How can…
Self Explanatory Chinese Characters (Indicative Characters) 指事字
To my surprise, there does not seem to be a comprehensive list of indicative characters on the internet. Indicative characters…
Ghislaine Maxwell didn’t kill herself
When you literally whore out children you shouldn’t be surprised when it catches up to you.
When do Countries War? USA, China, Russia
States sometimes go to war with former allies and sometimes make alliances with former enemies. Are there conditions which make…
合作 hezuo = collaborate
合作 hezuo collaborate 合 is a picture of a mouth on top with a dot of food or a word,…
Tangled Twisted and Tied Up in Knots (The STRUGGLE is real!)
纠结（jiū jié）STRUGGLE Jiu1 means tied, twisted. On the left is the silk determinant since it’s usually ropes and on the…
Circular Reasoning
Chinese has lots of words which could be translated as round, circle. None of them correspond exactly to the English…
Advanced Vocabulary Terms
坚持 solid+support=PERSIST JIANCHI 节奏 festival+music=RHYTHM JIEZOU 原则 source+standard/norm=PRINCIPLE YUANZE 违背 disobey/violate+burdened back = WEIBEI VIOLATE 独处 solitary+reside/place = LIVE ALONE…
Pro Testing is all the RAGE these days
罢 ba4 stop Net on top (wang2) big foot on the bottom walking out of the city below (qu4…
“The night of the long knives” (Devil’s Diplomatic Dictionary Free Supplement)
“When they came for the Land O Lakes Butter Princess – I wasn’t a butter princess, so I said nothing.…
“Right Side PAC”
Trump can and likely will win the election. I anticipate the usual dismissive elitism of the governing class, which is…
FAKE NEWS CYCLE
Much of what passes for “news” and “reporting” these days is really just marketing fakery to push a given “narrative”…
Must 须 XU1 需 Need
必须 bi4xu1 must+must/beard (male as symbol of commanding obligation) 需要 xu1yao1 Need+Want, Require+Desire = NEED Winter snow NEEDS to…
Book Review: Pictogram Palace
YOU Can read Chinese! This book breaks down Chinese characters into their pictographic, phonetic, and semantic elements. Presented as digital…
Varia 禁 楚
禁止的 at the altar before the grove the priest made clear that which was PROHIBITED 挺清楚的 that which was prohibited…
选手 Memotechnique
选手 xuanshou33 choose+hand=Athlete The ATHLETES, as CONTESTANTS had a first–Hand view of the race. Choose the best
秀才认字认半边
秀才认字认半边 xiu cai ren zi ren banbian “a clever character recognizes half of it”. 学海无涯 开卷有益.
历史 li4shi3 history
史 HISTORY is a central LIne in her hand SHI3 吏 the HISTORIAN has a chopstick in her hair: One…
須 xiu
須 xiu H.irsute I.t’s U.nderstood MUSTACHE MUST BEARD OBLIGATION It’s a pictogram. 3 lines of hair on the left 2…
德 de Virtue, Germany
德 De2 VIRTUE. Path on the left, light of the eye it’s focal direction on top of the…
Approaching Chinese through homophones YU2 于 余 与
Chinese is replete with homophones. Some seem to be cognitively related. Let’s have a look at the phoneme yu2, usually…
疑 yi2 uncertain, doubt, suspect, disbelieve.
疑 yi2 Uncertain, doubt, to suspect, to disbelieve. Originally this was the image of a man with a walking stick…
Pangu (Chinese Pan-Atlas)
不知千年万年万年千年 I don’t know, thousands or tens of thousands of years? 终于终于醒过来醒过来 Finally finally awoke! 醒来是如此艰难 Awakening is like this,…
machine translation of poetry lol “Climbing Stork Tower”.
白日依山尽 bai ri yi shan jin 黄河入海流 huang he ru hai liu 欲穷千里目 yu qiong qian li mu 更上一层楼 geng…
颂 song4 song
颂 song4 song Song4 is a cognate. It means song in the poetic sense, ode, elegy, eulogy. Song in English…
螢 ying2 firefly
螢 ying2 firefly 火 火 huo3 fire 冖 mi4 cover 虫 chong2 invertebrate, creepy crawly flittiing flying two fires on…
How to memorize characters 看拆写比记 kan1 chai1 xie1 bi1 ji4
To memorize Chinese characters: look at them, then break them down into their componenents, then try to write them, then…
爰 yuan2 THUS 煖 nuan3 WARM
爰 yuan2 Pictograph of two hands pulling a thread as a symbol of the idea TO FOLLOW, THEREFORE, SEQUENCE, CONSEQUENTLY.…
秋 qiu1 愁 chou2
秋 qiu1 In the FALL we Burn 火 huo3 the Stalks of harvested grain 禾 he2; bonfires clear and fertilize…
各 EACH person has their FOOT 足 on the ROAD 路Ge Zu LU
各 ge4 足 zu4 路 lu4 各 EACH person has their FOOT 足 on the ROAD 路
做 versus 作 — a curious couple of characters!
做 zuo4 做 zuo4 is a VERY common character; it means to make, to do. Apparently it was coined recently…
争秉
秉 bing3 争 zheng1 zheng looks a lot like bing but its meaning is somewhat different. bing3 means to grasp…
夬 缶 缺 It is CERTAIN that URNS are sometimes DEFICIENT…
缶 fou3 Pottery, jar, urn; it’s a mortar and pestle (or any other earthenware vessel), seen from the side. The…
落 (each, river luo, fall; drop.)
各 ge2 each https://hanziyuan.net/#各 Mouth calls out. Foot then comes. EACH person comes when called. stompmouth – foot on top…