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Chinese Vocabulary
Learn Mandarin Chinese Polyphones
Having trouble distinguishing between when to use a certain pronunciation for the same character? Ever not understood...
Loan Words In Mandarin Chinese
As Chinese people’s daily lives are now greatly influenced by western culture, loan words that are closely related to...
Chinese Words With Similar Pronunciations
Ever tried asking for something in a store, and received something completely different? Tried to express yourself...
Chinese Words That May Cause Confusion
In one of our previous blog articles, we explained seven pairs of synonyms in terms of the nuances between the meaning...
Words for “Time”: Difference between 时候 (shíhou) and 时间 (shíjiān)
Do you know what’s the difference (区别 qūbié) between 时候 (shíhou) and (时间 shíjiān)? As both of them denote “time”,...
3 Ways to Say “Change” in Chinese
In this article, we will have a look at three common ways to say "change" in Chinese. Chinese Paronyms In any...
Chinese Polyphones
Chinese learners often struggle with polyphones - characters with two or more pronunciations. In this article, we will...
Chinese Homophones
Very often in Chinese, you will come across words that share the same pronunciation, but are written using different...
Reversible Chinese Words
Sometimes, you can create two different words by putting two of the same Chinese characters into a different order. ...
