Here’s an example with the Chinese word 是 shì. It’s a first step towards the implementation of Traditional Chinese in Ninchanese!Ĭompounds are single characters that contain the character you looked up as one of their components. Now, on each word page, you can see and switch between the two forms. Mandarin Chinese has two written forms: Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese. Now, in addition to all that, when you look up a character, you can now also see: Get information on the character’s composition: what components or elements is it made of?.
See an example sentence for each of its meaning, when available.For a given word or Chinese character, say 猫, before the update, you could: We reworked the way word pages worked to bring you more information on each word. A detailed word page for each Chinese character and word (which you can share) More Chinese words to explore in Chinese meant more information to show you, so we seized this opportunity to improve the word pages for each character and word. Tatatatat BATMAN ^^ 蝙蝠侠 – Biān fú xiá on your go-to online dictionary? We’ve incorporated the whole CC-CEDICT database in Ninchanese for your viewing pleasure! That’s over 100, 000 Chinese characters and words you can now look up, explore and discover directly in the app.Īs you can guess from this funny tweet, all sorts of words and names are now browsable in Ninchanese: Ninchanese used to be your fave Chinese learning tool, did you know it can now also be…. Here are the changes and improvements what you can see in this update. Don’t be jealous, you’ll soon be seeing the consequences and results of those background improvements! And not to worry, there’s still plenty to see in this update. A lot of the work we did was behind the scenes, so you won’t be seeing a big part of the changes we’ve made. In this update, we focused a lot on improving and reworking our way of dealing with Chinese characters.
#POLYPHONIC PRONUNCIATION UPDATE#
In fact, it’s an update of biblical proportions… well, not biblical but of dictionary proportions at least, with lots more Chinese words in Ninchanese.
#POLYPHONIC PRONUNCIATION HOW TO#
So learning how to differentiate the polyphonics is key to understanding pronunciation and word meaning.Hi guys, we’re back with a new update for Ninchanese! And guess what? It’s monumental. The pronunciation of many words is a combination of several factors. These are not closely linked with Mandarin. The pronunciation and dialects of these two kinds of polyphonic characters are usually found in literary works, especially dialect vocabulary. The pronunciation can distinguish different styles. Different styles, different pronunciation. There is a small number of his type of word and it is a special classification indicating words that are frequently used but t difficult to distinguish the meanings.ĥ. So the pronunciation can distinguish them. If the word is used in a different situation, then the pronunciation is also different. To sort out the relationship between them, students need to master the vernacular in the polyphonic word.Ĥ. The first three types reflect classical Chinese. This type in classical Chinese is called "ancient sound but different pronunciation." The pronunciation of such ancient words has not changed a lot. Different usage between the common usage and names. It is not difficult to master this type of polyphonic as long as we pay close attention.ģ. Only a very small part of the Chinese characters originally used in the vernacular continue to be used in the vernacular. Some of the ancient Chinese interchangeable characters evolved into modern multi-tone words. The pronunciation determines different parts of speech and word meaning.Ģ. Although there is a large number of such multi-tone words, it is quite easy to grasp the different pronunciations as long as we compare them carefully. To master this type means to master most of the polyphonic words. In more than 900 polyphonic words, there are 500 of this type of polyphone. In the first two words, above, the first represents different parts of speech, and the pronunciation for each is different the second one represents the same parts of speech but has different meanings, so the pronunciation is also different. Pronunciation can distinguish the part of speech and meaning. Different parts of speech, different meanings, different pronunciation. In modern Chinese, the polyphone is about one tenth of all Chinese characters, and the modern Chinese dictionary contains about 982 polyphones.ġ. A polyphonic character is a type of character that has more than two pronunciations.
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