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60 Example Questions (7 closed)

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added by David McDavidson, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Apr 17 '11 at 18:18

	This is a question that I can see coming up often. When trying to learn a language it's always great to have an arsenal of online resources at your disposal. – Luser Sep 9 '10 at 17:32
	Likely to come up and tolerated on the site so not clearly off topic, but should not be the focus, so not a good on-topic example. – Caleb Apr 12 '11 at 12:49

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added by ixtmixilix, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Apr 17 '11 at 18:16

closed as off topic by Don Kirkby, Geoffrey Zheng, dta, dusan, Tianyi Cui Dec 8 '10 at 7:06

This question does not relate to the topic of the proposal.
It was closed as part of an automated migration of off-topic to close votes on September 29, 2011.

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added by Edle, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Apr 17 '11 at 18:15

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added by Caleb Apr 12 '11 at 12:51

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added by FUZxxl Apr 5 '11 at 19:57

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added by Sebastian Godelet Mar 23 '11 at 7:01

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added by Sebastian Godelet Mar 23 '11 at 1:23

@Sebastian - This is a great question. However, it is more than likely that translators already have a tool (possibly even just the dictionary) that is definitive for all and any word. This could lead to many 'check the dictionary' type answers, which should be avoided. – xiaohouzi79 Apr 7 '11 at 5:36

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added by Sebastian Godelet Mar 23 '11 at 1:10

i think this belongs to stackoverflow – J-16 SDiZ Apr 13 '11 at 6:17

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added by Sebastian Godelet Mar 23 '11 at 0:57

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added by Jaime Soto Jan 21 '11 at 20:13

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added by David Grellscheid Feb 24 '11 at 1:01

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added by Don Kirkby Sep 29 '10 at 20:02

I don't quite understand this question. Is it referring to characters that are only used in TW or HK and not in the mainland? If there are lots of them then this is way too broad. Each character has a history and an evolution and its own respective merits. – xiaohouzi79 Feb 8 '11 at 2:16

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added by xiaohouzi79 Feb 11 '11 at 3:03

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added by xiaohouzi79 Feb 11 '11 at 3:00

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added by xiaohouzi79 Feb 11 '11 at 2:52

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added by xiaohouzi79 Feb 11 '11 at 2:49

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added by Klaus-Martin Scheuer Feb 8 '11 at 11:17

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added by stillinbeta Feb 7 '11 at 3:52

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added by Anthony Labarre Feb 1 '11 at 9:43

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added by Hsien-Chih Chang 張顯之 Jan 29 '11 at 15:54

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added by Ciaocibai Jan 27 '11 at 22:12

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added by Ciaocibai Jan 27 '11 at 22:04

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added by Ciaocibai Jan 27 '11 at 22:01

Likely to come up and tolerated on the site so not clearly off topic, but should not be the focus, so not a good on-topic example. – Caleb Apr 12 '11 at 12:47

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added by Jaime Soto Jan 21 '11 at 20:06

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added by Jaime Soto Jan 21 '11 at 20:04

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added by Anthony Labarre Jan 9 '11 at 13:16

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added by Anthony Labarre Jan 9 '11 at 13:13

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added by Mr. Shiny and New 安宇 Jan 7 '11 at 19:57

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added by Mr. Shiny and New 安宇 Jan 7 '11 at 19:49

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added by Edle Nov 21 '10 at 2:50

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added by jsk Nov 7 '10 at 16:06

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added by dusan Oct 24 '10 at 14:25

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added by Don Kirkby Sep 29 '10 at 20:03

I have this exact same problem! I'd love to hear what the community had to say about this. – Ciaocibai Jan 27 '11 at 22:03

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added by ixtmixilix Aug 2 '10 at 21:41

closed as off topic by Xiè Jìléi, Luser, Edle, Tianyi Cui, Erik van Brakel Jan 8 '11 at 22:01

This question does not relate to the topic of the proposal.
It was closed as part of an automated migration of off-topic to close votes on September 29, 2011.

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added by ixtmixilix Jul 31 '10 at 21:41

What's classical particle? – Geoffrey Zheng Sep 21 '10 at 15:18

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_chinese_grammar – ixtmixilix Sep 27 '10 at 11:20

Thanks. As an engineer I tend to think of things electrons and neutrons when I see "classical particle". – Geoffrey Zheng Sep 27 '10 at 14:14

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added by ixtmixilix Jul 31 '10 at 21:48

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added by ixtmixilix Jul 31 '10 at 21:42

	This is the thing I've focused on the most since I started learning Chinese. It would have really helped me to be able to ask this when I started out. I also think it's technical enough to merit an overflow style Q/A format, since some characters have several accepted stroke orders, and every char. that differs in trad./simplified has at least two anyway, which may be vastly different since Taiwanese and HK stroke order differ vastly with regard to certain shapes... so potentially this Q has 5-6 acceptable answers, making it perfect for MO/SO-style formats. – ixtmixilix Jul 31 '10 at 22:11
	Yes, but would you really want the site full of hundreds of questions about stroke order for each character when you only practically need to learn one type of stroke order for every character and this can be learnt with practice. That means an answer to a single character is not going to provide you with any insight in the long run. – xiaohouzi79 Feb 11 '11 at 3:19
	This is the same as asking 1000 different questions about how a particular character looks in each handwriting script. It looks 'cool', but it's not beneficial. – xiaohouzi79 Feb 11 '11 at 3:21