[Course Forum] Characters 1,501 - 2,000 in Mandarin Chinese by BenWhately

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hi

斐 - phonetic fei or fi; elegant; phi (Greek letter Ί, φ); surname Fei
https://handedict.zydeo.net/de/search/斐
http://www.xiaoma.info/hanzi.php?hz=斐&fhz=斐

danke

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Added. I didn’t add “fi (phonetic)” because I couldn’t find any other sources that also stated that. If you have another good source to confirm this, just let me know.

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hi

æ±Șvast, extensive, deep, surname Wang (http://www.archchinese.com/chinese_english_dictionary.html?find=æ±Ș)

vi. accumulate/ vt. ooze/ misc. expanse of water (http://dict.youdao.com/search?le=eng&q=æ±Ș&tab=&keyfrom=dict2.top)

expanse of water; ooze; surname Wang (http://www.xiaoma.info/hanzi.php?hz=æ±Ș&fhz=æ±Ș)

thanks

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涌 - also (and very often) stream; to emerge (http://dict.youdao.com/search?le=eng&q=涌&tab=&keyfrom=dict2.top)

and 毂 means also “silent, still”

thanks

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Hey @Hydroptere, sorry, but I’m not really up for maintaining this course. I mostly just asked to be added as a contributor so that I could run some scripts on the course to clean it up.

Are you up for maintaining the course, or is anyone else?

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Ă€hm, nope, thanks, but I have enough courses on my plate. I wonder if I should quit it


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@neoncube are you by chance a mod on the HSK 4 and 5 for red and blue? Want to add some hidden alts so the courses accept each other’s answers.

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@Wuxian, no, although I’m a mod on the blue HSK 6. I think @student-of-life may be the mod for the other HSKs.

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Ya, understandable.

I personally think that usually one is much better off just learning multi-character words than trying to learn the meanings of individual characters and then trying to learn multi-character words.

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yeah, of course, it is just i start to forget my “higher” level vocab, because I cannot infer from the component parts - so I cannot really read, forget about “hearing” “normal” (that is a bit specialised) discourses in my fields (need to know the higher order individual characters as well)

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okay, i’ll try him again, he seems to be not replying, at least for the last month or so.

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@neoncube @Hydroptere
Kind of slipping into your guys conversation here, but i’m actually the opposite in terms of multi-character words. For instance, for HSK 5 right now, I have a separate course with levels that test in the 3 directions I work on with all the single characters from HSK 5 I don’t know, and then if a certain character has a root or more basic character I don’t know, i’ll put it into mdbg or archchinese and see if that root is used in a lot of useful characters or words later. If the entry comes up as 20 uses describing things like “the left pinky toe of an emperor on a sunny day”, then I won’t bother with it, but if it’s connected to words that seem useful or recognized as in HSK 5 or 6 then i’ll learn that root.

I feel like if I just learn the 2 or 3 character word without knowing the pieces, it’s a very fragile word in my memory unless i’m using it in speech. Since i’m not doing physical writing practice much right now, that’s already 1/4 of the learning areas i’m lacking in terms of speaking/listening reading/writing, so I need all the reinforcement I can get. Also, I’ve noticed that a lot of HSK 5 single characters are used later on so those later words become learning a concept vs. a concept and two characters. Just my two cents on it. :slightly_smiling_face:

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i agree, the same here (but as I am not taking the HSK, no need for that :)), I just need to really understand fast what happens at work, sometimes)

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@Wuxian, fair enough :slight_smile:

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èŁ “honour; thriving” has hard coded spelling manner.

Can “honor” be added perhaps for localization purposes (e.g., hidden answer mechanism ‘_honor’) or something comparable?

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Hello :slight_smile:

For some reason, I’m unable to locate this word by searching the database. Do you know which level it’s in?

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Greetings neoncube, and Happy Thanksgiving! =D

which level is it in?

FYI, It’s at level 8 (https://www.memrise.com/course/353/characters-1001-1500-in-mandarin-chinese/8)

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(bug)[audio error] (if I’m not mistaken.)

[Environment]: English 326-350; Level 41 (https://www.memrise.com/course/353/characters-1001-1500-in-mandarin-chinese/41/)
-> 晃; Pinyin: “huang3”; English: “dazzle”

[Observed]: audio recording appears to correspond to tone #2 (huang2)

[Expected]: Tone3 (huang3); Note: Corroborated by Yellowbridge & Wiktionary (both specify tone3 for this meaning and, incidentally, tone4 for (only semi-related in this instance) alt. meaning. Edit:(wikipedia -> wiktionary typo)

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Thanks! Happy (belated) Thanksgiving to you, too :slight_smile:

I’ve changed the definition for èŁ to also accept “honor” (it’s a hidden definition, but it should work).

The voice recording for 晃 seems to be second tone to me, too.