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Chinese Symbols
For certain words int he chinese language, are there more than one symbol for one word, or are some words have two symbols?
Like, how we have "there their and they're", are there more than one symbol for one word? And are there more than one symbol to make up the word?
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There are various ways to write same words such as life which could be sheng ming or sheng huo depending on how you're using; beautiful can be piao liang or mei li and etc. There is 'na li', their is 'ta men de' and 'they're' is "ta men..."
So yeah certain words in the chinese language (im assuming mandarin but im sure its the same with cantonese and tawainese) have more than one symbol. Example would be name which is ming zi (zhi). One symbol words could be like "I" (wo) or "you" (ni). Because is "ying wei". etc. I hope that helped and wasn't confusing?
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I don't know much about Chinese, but this much is true: There, their, and they're are three different words, not just three different ways of spelling the same one.
"There" refers to the opposite of "here".
"Their" is the possessive form of the word "They".
"They're" is a contraction of "They are".
It is one of the most common (and annoying) errors in English grammar to mix those three words up, particularly the second and third.
One thing I do know about spoken Chinese is that the inflection one places on a word is much more important than in English or other western languages. By changing the way one's voice rises or falls on a given word, the entire meaning of it is changed - not in a small way, but in the sense that the same word might mean "rock" or "telephone" depending on the emphasis placed on it (I pulled that example out of thin air; those two words are probably not actually similar in Chinese, but that's the kind of difference I'm talking about).
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Chinese words can be combined from other words inside each other.For expample the word big in chinese is also present in the word sun.
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