imron Posted March 22, 2011 at 02:35 AM Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 at 02:35 AM Rough translation: 黏 describes the property of an object that allows it to stick (粘) to another object (then a whole bunch of stuff related to the standardisation process, which explicitly recognised these as different characters with different meanings). The short version is: 黏 is an adjective (sticky) and 粘 is a verb (to stick). It's worth noting that 粘 is a 多音字, that can also be pronounced nián, however, this is only used as a surname (according to the Guifan dict) and doesn't have the meaning of sticky. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted March 23, 2011 at 01:43 AM Report Share Posted March 23, 2011 at 01:43 AM Thanks for clearing that up. I feel somewhat encouraged that I was at least on the right track, sort of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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