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by ekkuna
Tue Aug 18, 2009 8:01 am
Forum: Mandarin language forum
Topic: Charcter etymology for qing2(goddess of frost and snow)
Replies: 17
Views: 45136

Re: Charcter etymology for qing2(goddess of frost and snow)

I checked the unicode fonts, couldn't find it in there. And it's not in the extension B either, it would be around U+290E0 if it were there.
by ekkuna
Tue Aug 18, 2009 8:00 am
Forum: Hokkien (Minnan) language
Topic: An obcure variety of Hokkien?
Replies: 62
Views: 79686

Re: An obcure variety of Hokkien?

This is why I'm pretty convinced that these different vowels were already present on the Chinese mainland. Also, I once asked a Taiwanese if he was familiar with this variant, and he said that people spoke like that in some parts of Taiwan, but he didn't know where.
by ekkuna
Tue Aug 18, 2009 7:59 am
Forum: Hokkien (Minnan) language
Topic: Sentences with "all", "many", "some
Replies: 23
Views: 37658

Re: Sentences with "all", "many", "some

I feel are not really sensible sentences in English, so it's not a problem if there's no way of saying them in Hokkien, but the remainder of the set seem to be quite ordinary sentences in English, and yet I can't say them in Hokkien, or I CANT say them