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CHINESE CHARACTERS • DIALECTS • IDIOMS • • STREET TALK

IDIOMS

Idiomized: How to Capture Winter’s Spirit in 4 Characters

Discover these essential Chinese “chengyu” about ice, snow, freezing cold, and perseverance through hardship

Sun Jiahui (孙佳慧)

Nov. 6, 2019

IDIOMS

Choice Chengyu: Cat Got Your Tongue?

Feline phrases throughout Chinese history

Sun Jiahui (孙佳慧)

Oct. 30, 2019

IDIOMS

Choice Chengyu: Operatic Expressions

Dramatic figures of speech born from Peking Opera

Sun Jiahui (孙佳慧)

Oct. 23, 2019

IDIOMS

Choice Chengyu: Eating Words

Idioms and phrases for everyday sustenance

Sun Jiahui (孙佳慧)

Oct. 16, 2019

LANGUAGE

Psychiatric Speech

A guide to Chinese vocabulary for mental illness

Oct. 10, 2019

STREET TALK

Tube Troops

TV addiction now has its own slang

Tan Yunfei (谭云飞)

Oct. 4, 2019

LANGUAGE

The Art of the Deal

Phrases to help you in negotiation

Sun Jiahui (孙佳慧)

Sept. 22, 2019

LANGUAGE

Fangyan Friday: Wherefore ‘Er’ Thou?

A guide to the tricky sound that defines Beijing

Jessily Crispyn

Sept. 20, 2019

STREET TALK

Cattle Class

Livestock of the world, unite!—behind this new meme for overwork

Sun Jiahui (孙佳慧)

Sept. 13, 2019

IDIOMS

Choice Chengyu: Lunar Language

Mid-Autumn sayings about the moon

Sun Jiahui (孙佳慧)

Sept. 11, 2019

DIALECTS

Fangyan Friday #10: Sing-song Shanghaiese

A melodious and hybrid dialect shaped by a city’s storied past

Tina Xu (徐盈盈)

Sept. 6, 2019

IDIOMS

Choice Chengyu: Doo-wop of Dewdrops

Brief and wondrous idioms about dew

Sun Jiahui (孙佳慧)

Sept. 4, 2019

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