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  • 二月 / 01 / 2011

    传染

    chuánrǎn - to infect, contagious

  • 一月 / 30 / 2011

    安慰

    ānwèi - comfort, console

    This is the first time I written about a new word in ages. First time this year in fact. One reason has been the fact that I've not been studying Chinese for a while, another being that I've only just worked out how to type Chinese with my now-not-so-new Linux computer. Hence today's post.

  • 一月 / 29 / 2011

    透

    tòu - penetrate, pass through; completely

    I heard this word in a Popup Chinese podcast, which I was listening to. I seemed like a really useful word, the evil sister of 及了. When following a small, negative (in the sense of bad), verb, it means completely. When searching my email for this word, I discovered that it had been in one of the Chinese sentences sent to me for a course I signed up for some time: 如果中了乐透，我会买一座小岛。 It seems, that 乐透 is a transliteration of lottery.

    看来他一定恨透你了
    It looks like he must really hate you.

  • 一月 / 28 / 2011

    潜艇

    qiántǐng - submarine

    I saw a submarine on the way to work this morning, which is one of the unexpected benefits of working in Plymouth. 潜 looks like an interesting character, meaning to hide or to dive.

    我今天去工作看了潜艇。
    Today I saw a submarine on the way to work.

  • 十二月 / 10 / 2010

    暑

    shǔ - heat, hot weather

    I vaguely remember this character from Japanese (I think it's atsui, meaning 'hot'). Although it's definitely not pertinent to the current cold snap, Victoria send me an article, in which it has been named the character of this year. It's interesting to look at the previous winners, though it all seems very arbitrary.

  • 十二月 / 06 / 2010

    肺结核

    fèijiéhé - tuberculosis

    Today I watched an interesting TED talk about training rats to find land mines and tuberculosis. Tuberculosis add to my list of unlikely-to-arise-in-conversation science word. It is literally 'lung knot stone'.

    他感染了肺结核
    He contracted tuberculosis.

  • 十二月 / 05 / 2010

    淋浴

    línyù - take a shower

    This was nciku's word of the day and is very useful. It's also vaguely topical as I bought a new shower hose.

    我家的淋浴器出了故障，总是漏水。
    The shower facility of my home was broken, and it always dribbled.

  • 十二月 / 02 / 2010

    袋鼠

    dàishǔ - kangaroo

    Today I had a kangaroo burger from the same place that I got the ostrich burger. It wasn't as nice.

    袋鼠产於澳大利亚。
    Kangaroos are indigenousto Australia.

  • 十二月 / 01 / 2010

    水管工

    shuǐguǎngōng - plumber

    Today the plumbers were in to fit a shower screen and generally make a mess of my bath room.

    他是水管工
    He is a plumber.

  • 十一月 / 29 / 2010

    见合

    jiànhé - miai (having two options for the same result in go)

    Another go term today because I started to read Yoshiaki Nagahara's Strategic Concepts of Go.

    我有见合
    I have miai.