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[calibre2001]

Help me identify this character please.

I can't type out the character - it has 白 on top and 它 below. There's no 宀 component.

It's a colour I think. Can someone provide the pinyin pls?

[skylee]

皂(zao4).

The character itself means the colour "black". It is very usually seen in the word 肥皂, which means "soap". It is also commonly seen in the saying 不分青紅皂白 (not distinguishing right or wrong in a dispute (“blue, red, black or white”)).

[rob07]

皂(zao4).

The character itself means the colour "black". It is very usually seen in the word 肥皂, which means "soap". It is also commonly seen in the saying 不分青紅皂白 (not distinguishing right or wrong in a dispute (“blue, red, black or white”)).

Another now archaic meaning of 皂 is a low class servant at a 衙门. A 衙门 was a government office in old China.

[anonymoose]

it has 白 on top and 它 below. There's no 宀 component.

According to calibre2001's description, the character is actually 皀, but I guess 皂 is the character (s)he was referring to.

[calibre2001]

Yes, 皀 is indeed the character printed in the book. But it's really 皂 that is correct. Skylee is spot on: I came across it from 不分青紅皂白 . So all in all, it's a printing error by the book publisher. Thanks all.

[skylee]

According to calibre2001's description, the character is actually 皀

Ah, thanks for pointing this out. I didn't even know this character, and I thought it was strange that calibre2001 had described it that way. It's not a very commonly seen character, is it?

[chrix]

My word would be 口岸 "port". I find it quite interesting because from the general rules of Chinese word compounding patterns, you'd expect to find 岸口.

[calibre2001]

Hi have another word I don't understand - 逶迆

Meaning

http://hk.dictionary.yahoo.com/search.html?s=%B6j%A8%B2

Don't quite get it

Sentence

XX 等人逶迤走進山口。

Thanks

[Artem]

Check here: http://www.nciku.com/search/zh/detail/%E9%80%B6%E8%BF%A4/43684

you need a better dictionary with chinese examples

[calibre2001]

How is this character pronounced? -> 齙 without a 包 but a 句 instead. thanks

[skylee]

齣 (chu1), a measure word for plays, films, etc.

[andyp09]

Cleavage： 乳沟 rǔgōu

Computer Nerd: 电脑狂人 diànnǎokuángrén

[roddy]

邂逅, xièhòu, to meet by chance.

[skylee]

邂逅, xièhòu, to meet by chance.

usually with a romantic connotation.

[imron]

被优化掉 - optimized away (e.g. fired/sacked)

[roddy]

Excellent, I like that one.

[chrix]

悶騷 describing a person who is quiet on the outside and appears 乖乖的, but who really is different, a person whose image and real character don't coincide. Can't find a good English expression for it, and the word is in none of my dictionaries. But it is quite a useful term I think, especially when gossiping (and I'm told it has kind of a tongue-in-cheek connotation). "Still waters run deep" comes to mind

[roddy]

柴三机, cháisānjī, a diesel-powered three wheeler, and one of the 五小车辆。

go on, ask me what the others are . . .

[chrix]

sure I'll bite. What are they, and more importantly, will this be on the HSK ?

[roddy]

Well, I guess I can tell you one more. 农用运输车. But really, I can't reveal any more.

晃点， huàngdiǎn - to stand up, cancel an appointment. As far as I can tell it's the same as 放鸽子。