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What does the Jiong character mean?
patterned window
Jiong (Chinese: 囧; pinyin: jiǒng; Jyutping: gwing2) is a once obscure Chinese character meaning a “patterned window”. Since 2008, it has become an internet phenomenon and widely used to express embarrassment and gloom, because of the character’s resemblance to a sad facial expression.
What is the Chinese radical for female?
女部
Radical 38 or radical woman (女部) meaning “woman” or “female” is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes. In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 681 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
What does o mean in Chinese?
oh (interjection indicating doubt or surprise) Example Usage. 哦
What Orz means?
a fatigued or despaired emoticon, which represents a stick figure kneeling or bowing with the “o” being the head, the “r” being the arms and part of the body, and the “z” being part of the body and the legs.
What is the Chinese radical for speech?
Radical 149 or radical speech (言部) meaning “speech” is one of the 20 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 7 strokes.
What is the Chinese radical for food?
Radical 184 or radical eat (食部) meaning “eat” or “food” is one of the 11 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 9 strokes. In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 403 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
What does this 🈲 mean?
🈲 means ‘prohibit/restrict/forbid’ in Japanese.
What does Orz mean in Chinese?
Originating from Japanese manga, it is the Asian equivalent of a ‘facepalm’. Orz supposedly resembles a person kneeling down in exasperation, with the ‘0’ representing the person’s head, the ‘r’ symbolizing their hands, and the ‘z’ representing their legs.
How to recognize a Chinese character?
Chinese characters are extremely detailed. In contrast, Japanese has a more open and airy style of script. While Korean characters are orderly and regimented, they aren’t quite as dense or complex as Chinese characters, with a lot more open space.
What do you call Chinese characters?
In Chinese they are called hanzi (汉字/漢字), which means “Han character”. In Japanese they are called kanji and in Korean hanja. Chinese characters are an important part of East Asian culture.
What’s in a Chinese character?
传/傳 has readings OC*drjon > MC drjwen’ > Mod.
How do Chinese characters represent words?
Chinese characters do not constitute an alphabet or a compact syllabary. Rather, the writing system is roughly logosyllabic; that is, a character generally represents one syllable of spoken Chinese and may be a word on its own or a part of a polysyllabic word.