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艮 gen3, blunt.

 

After seeing Roddy's 鯁 which I didn't know, I suddenly recalled this other word with similar pronunciation I had heard lots of times but didn't know how to write. After asking some Chinese people, it came out they didn't know either how to write it exactly (someone wrote 茛), so I looked up in the dictionary and found out that that character is the one used.

Below is an example of a typical sentence using this word.

这孩子真艮。

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绒球

 

róng qiú

 

Pompom - from a CGTV documentary program about a Long March soldier who had a woven pair of shoes made from jute with silk Pompoms made for him by his fiancee.

 

Had to look it up, so I though I would share.

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While reading 地球知识局 this morning I encountered was is now probably among my top 5 favorite Chinese words. This noun won't be in any of your dictionaries on Pleco! (I just submitted it to CC-CEDICT.)

 

爆炸头

 

Spoiler

afro (hairstyle)

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The other day I learned/realised, after 20 years of studying Chinese, that 权 and 劝 are in fact different characters. I had somehow never seen them in the same room together, so to speak.

权 quán power, might; right

劝 quàn try to persuade, encourage, comfort.

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Several related terms

  • 皮划艇 canoeing/kayaking (especially as a sport)
  • 划艇 canoe
  • 皮艇 kayak
  • 独木舟 dugout canoe (but from Google images, looks like it's sometimes used for other types of canoe, including plastic ones)
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