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As a native Chinese speaker, this comes so natural. pork = pig + meat So the year of 2015 is the year of ram/sheep/goat, in Chinese they literally means Ram
by est 12y ago
As a native Chinese speaker, this comes so natural.
pork = pig + meat
So the year of 2015 is the year of ram/sheep/goat, in Chinese they literally means
Ram = male ∪ caprinae
sheep = wool ∪ caprinae
goat = mountain ∪ caprinae
basically, word composition is pretty common in analytic language like Chinese, but kinda new idea in fusional languages like English.
- perdunov 12y agoThis is super-cool. I am trying to start learning Chinese on Coursera https://www.coursera.org/learn/learn-chinese https://www.coursera.org/learn/learn-chinese Learning a language that is based on different principles is an enormous brain exercise. Also, remembering the characters is a challenge.