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2 months agoyou could also just use the player hotkeys to cycle through subtitles and secondary subs
felt lazy, might post details later
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Yeah I should have explained it a little more in depth, haha. It’s hard to reduce these words to simple translations. All parts are weird enough on their own.
如 means “follow” more in the sense of “follow orders”, go along, comply, accord, be like, as if, etc. 果 means fruit in a very broad sense as the “effect” of a tree or seed, think like “bear fruit”, “fruitless”, “the fruits of one’s labor”, etc. So in combination they mean, what happens if the results of a situation are according to some description.
The other variant I think is a bit simpler. 要 means “ask for”, “demand”, “request”, “want”, “need”, “must”, sort of the inverse of the above 如 here. So a hypothetical demands that a situation 是 be a certain way. It places a restriction on the possible outcomes.
Sorry if this is nonsense, I might post other compounds with 果 and delve deeper … whenever I feel like™ 😎
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如果 / 要是
Literally: “follow fruit / need be”
Figuratively: “if”
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上海
From the name of the now filled river 上海浦 which meant something like “[high / upper / rise / go to] sea delta”
Different names for the historical event:
四一二事件
April 12 Incident
四一二反革命政变
April 12 counterrevolutionary coup
东南清党
Southeast party purge
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粉笔
Literally: “powder pen”
Figuratively: “chalk”
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忐忑
Remember 上 and 下 (up and down)? If your 心 (heart) was going up and down, how would you feel? Perhaps perturbed, fidgety, upset, on edge, uneasy, nervous?
This is a 2-syllable word where neither 忐 nor 忑 make sense on their own, they are strictly parts of this word. I’m also 99% sure that the characters were invented specifically for this word.
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脑袋
(nǎo dài)
Literally: “brain bag”
Figuratively: “head” (informal)
12·3 months agoPosting neat Chinese phrases whenever I feel like #31
庸人自扰
(yōng rén zì rǎo)
Literally: “mediocre person self disturb”
Figuratively: “worry about nothing / create trouble for oneself”
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上 + 下
(shàng + xià)
Iconic characters: one “arrow” up and one down! And if you feel some sense of déjà vu from last time, that’s because we’re doing more time analogies. If you had to choose between “up” and “down” to mean past or present, which would you pick? In any case, Chinese settled on …
spoiler
up = past, and down = future. The way I’ve had it explained to me is that in writing, earlier events are on the top of the page and later events at the bottom, but I don’t trust this since it assumes widespread literacy historically. If you know a better explanation please advise!
bonus! tongue twister
下个星期见
(xià gè xīng qī jiàn)
[ɕja⁵¹ kɰɤ⁵¹ ɕɪŋ⁵⁵ tɕʰi⁵⁵ tɕjɛn⁵¹]
“see you next week” (down [one] star period see)
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前 + 后
(qián + hòu)
The pair “front” + “back”. While of course both interesting in many ways, I want to focus on their time meaning. In modern English, we usually think of the future as in front of us and the past as behind us, but it’s the opposite in Chinese, and get this, in historic English as well! We can see traces of this in the words “before” and “after”!
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无产阶级
(wú chǎn jiē jí)
Literally: “[un-] property class”
Figuratively: “proletariat”
产 is sneaky as it usually means “production”, but that’s obviously not the case in this context.
阶级 is in turn composed of “stairs” and “rank”, respectively.
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分手
(fēn shǒu)
Literally: “part hands”
Figuratively: “break up [romantically]”
Remember 分? Allow me to quote myself from 过分:
分 is perhaps even spicier, also an essential grammar word. Even if you don’t know any Chinese you should be able to see that the character depicts a knife parting something in two parts. That’s the core meaning: Part! And from that flows: divide, fraction, component, portion, cent, minute, allotment. Some of those are read fēn and some fèn. Oh and don’t ask about 份 lol
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马上
Literally: “on horseback”
Figuratively: “right away; soon”
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