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I'm assuming those Mandarin characters comprise the word for that relationship? I was wondering why this existed and I thought maybe they were adding the Hindi
by rudiv 7y ago
I'm assuming those Mandarin characters comprise the word for that relationship? I was wondering why this existed and I thought maybe they were adding the Hindi words for specific relatives (there's many, I assume the same is true for Mandarin).
- kenneth 7y agoMandarin is a spoken language. The characters are "Simplified Chinese" in this case. The characters will sound different read in different languages. e.g. the two Traditional Chinese characters 東京 translate roughly to "Eastern Capital" and are read dōngjīng, while they are also valid Japanese Kanji where they have the same meaning and are read as Tokyo. (Yes, the name of the capital of Japan.) Interestingly, Běijīng and Nánjīng similarly mean "northern" and "southern" capital respectively.
- echaozh 7y agoThere was once an Eastern Capital in China which is also named as Kaifeng, the capital of the Northen Song Dynasty. It is to east of Chang'an, which is now Xi'an, and the capital of most of earlier dynasties.
- helloviper 7y agoIn Chinese culture, your male line ancestry matter more. Your mother's family is considered auxiliary ('外家'), thus only your father's brother's children are considered in the same family, and these cousins are labeled “堂”, all the other cousins are labeled "表”, and "姐" means older sister.
- NamTaf 7y agoIs this why it is a mother's sibling of any gender, but only a father's sister?
- masklinn 7y agoThat's my understanding, a difference is made between paternal lineages (through the father's brothers) and maternal (either father's sister or any sibling of the mother). Possibly denoting similar v different family names?