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This category is for Chinese idioms for which there is an English equivalent (in terms of connotation). Pages in category "Chinese idioms with an English equivalent" This category contains only the following page.
The basic format for a head entry gives the character, the Instant Index System code, the pronunciation(s) in Simplified GR, the part or parts of speech, optionally other speech levels (e.g., "sl." for slang), English translation equivalents for the head character and usage examples of polysyllabic compounds, phrases, and idioms, subdivided by ...
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Idioms are such an important part of Chinese popular culture that there is a game called 成語接龍 'connect the chengyu' that involves someone calling out an idiom, with someone else then being supposed to think of another idiom to link up with the first one, so that the last character of the first idiom is the same as the first character of ...
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Four-character idiom may refer to: Chengyu , a type of traditional Chinese idiomatic expressions, most of which consist of four characters, Structurally fixed idioms are composed of fixed components and structural forms and generally cannot be changed or morphemes added or subdivided at will.
Many Chinese proverbs (yànyǔ 諺語) [1] exist, some of which have entered English in forms that are of varying degrees of faithfulness. A notable example is " A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step ", from the Dao De Jing , ascribed to Laozi . [ 2 ]
Words of Chinese origin have entered European languages, including English. Most of these were direct loanwords from various varieties of Chinese.However, Chinese words have also entered indirectly via other languages, particularly Korean, Japanese and Vietnamese, that have all used Chinese characters at some point and contain a large number of Chinese loanwords.