Do you know how to write pinyin on the computer with the correct tone marks? When I google it, I find a lot of explanations of how to write Chinese characters with Pinyin input, which is no problem for me, since I have Microsoft Pinyin thingy installed. Before my current laptop, I used to be able to find the accented vowels in pinyin somewhere in ( Read more... )

Can somebody translate what is written on these ginger jars into English please?


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Hello linguaphiles!

My in-laws recently gifted us with a folding screen, which has a cherry blossom design and some writing in what I'm guessing is Japanese?

Any ideas what this could mean? I just hate to be the person who has a decoration and no idea what it says...

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If someone could translate these two for me, I would be very grateful.  Thank you!


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I'm looking for comparisons of different Chinese pronunciations and vocabulary that go beyond Mandarin and Cantonese. Hoping people here might have some suggestions. I'm especially interested in Taiwanese Hokkien and Hakka. Thanks for any recommendations.

Hi! I'm a part of a Tumblr blog that posts sources (if we can find them) to posts with uncredited and reposted pieces of artwork.

I'd like help translating the characters in this image to English so that I can properly source the artwork/find the original poster, if possible ( Read more... )

I was looking through Starbucks's Taiwanese site and came across a really confusing page. The heading, for people who don't want to click, is 糕點新品 (which Google Translate said meant "new pastry," and underneath it are three items: a Mediterranean shrimp salad, a cherry and tomato cup, and a mango chiffon cake. I'll admit I'm coming at this from an ( Read more... )

I'm working on something and wanted some feedback. I'm needing to do some translations that simply state "I speak..." Like "I speak French" - "Je parle français".. But I wanted to double check my translation on the following. If you are fluent in any of the following can you let me know your thoughts on accuracy?

Thank you in advance!

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I recently came across a mention of "kong pao chicken" in something I'm editing, and I can't figure out if it's a typo/misspelling or just another way to transliterate "kung pao chicken." The author is in Australia but I'm supposed to be using British English overall, so I'd appreciate input from Australian and British English speakers. Thanks!

A little kid gave me a piece of paper with this symbol on it and said it was a Chinese character, but also that he didn't know what it meant. Can anyone tell me: 1. is it really a Chinese character? and 2. what does it mean?
Thanks.
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