M Henri Day

Do you really mean that the most recent ones do not ?!!...

Of course there's a radical index. But the Chinese characters are situated phonetically. This is a very good innovation.

Such system is called Palladium. But it is not used now because pinyin is official and sufficient.

The recent Chinese-Russian dictionaries use phonetical principle. Every glyph is situated according to its pinyin transliteration. All words are situated according to its pronunciation under its first glyph. Its a remarkable system. However, pronunciation of the glyph must be stored in your brain or...

frank---

But the IMEs i found for traditional characters are based on zhuyin (ㄅㄆㄇㄈ) and that's a bridge too far for me.

Zhuyin is not so difficult; here are tables zhuyin-pinyin

http://yazyk.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t= ... highlight=

Regards

Thank you, Flam, you are a real friend. The investigation is over.

BD--- Tim and I don't know the first thing about Chinese? In this case the result is remarkable and good as an approximate translation of the whole sentence. But my problem is one word: 受调者 and my version: government supporters --> people approving his government is not the ultimate solution. Tim---...

TIM says I don't think I would use the term "opposition" unless the source was describing an organized group of people who were opposed. The quote you have provided indicates that these people are not formally linked to one another, except to say that they all disapprove. The same for who ...

an adjusted (estimated?) 55% of people XXX (approximately 55%)! The answer received by analyzing morphemes is not correct, I think. My version is government supporters (?) as antonym to opposition . Thank you for your efforts. But is this method safe? What I wanted was an exact meaning based on a s...

simple character Meanings: 调 diào mode (music)/ to move (troops)/ tune/ tone/ melody/ to transfer/; tiáo harmonize/ reconcile traditional character 調 simple character 周 zhōu (surname)/ complete/ encircle/ circuit/ lap/ week/ cycle/ all/ every/ attentive/ thoughtful traditional character 週 week rece...

I ask to help in translation of a Chinese sentence. Just one word!

根据最新民意测验的结果，大约55%的受调者支持瑞士加入申根协议， 35%的人持反对态度。

Regards.

GARZO says

However, if we consider the English word world, we see that it comes from were- (as in wolf) and old -- the age of man

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Did you mean ...(as in werewolf)... ?

BD SAYS

This reminds me of Russian мир (mir), peace and earth.

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МИР= 1)peace; 2)world; 3)community

Flam wrote At lo' ma'amina kama ani margish Tipesh אתה לא תאמין עד כמה אני מרגיש את עצמי טיפש תשובתי: ההרגשה הזאת היא הגורל לכל לומד שפות זרות. Flam wrote But what is the connection between Parma ham and a right-wing politician? This politician showed the slice of Parma ham and said that there were ...

I present my solution of the enigma.

一块帕尔马火腿 = a slice of Parma ham.

Regards.