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How Do You Pronounce "Li Bien"


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How do you pronounce "Li Bien" as in "Li Bien in Chinese means inside, an age old skill - with tiny brushes the artwork is done thru a tiny hole in the bottom of the ball" (LINK)

Thanks,

LibroBrother

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I assume they mean 里边 (裡邊), which means inside. Pronunciation at http://de.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?page=chardict&cdcanoce=0&cdqchi=%E9%87%8C%E8%BE%B9 .

However, I don't think this is the common term, as a google image search shows nothing. So I think the seller is just making that up. Anyone knows the correct term? I'm curious now.

[And in my looking I found one web site that claimed "In Mandarin, “ne’qwa” describes this centuries-old artistic tradition of painting on the inside of glass." I'm assuming by ne'qwa they mean 内畫? Sounds like Cantonese to me. But google images doesn't agree that this is the common word.]

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If my memory serves me correctly it should be 内画 {inside painting}

A google search just confirmed my memory. Thank goodness

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Thanks!

But that's weird, 内畫 shows no images of the inside painting, while 内画 does. And google images usually searches both simplified and traditional. Oh well, guess I need to try both then.

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Something about the mix of simplified and traditional in 内畫 is confusing google. If you change the first character to 內 it works ok.

Edit: Search results are still different, though.

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