tao2yi4 - to escape
su4du4 - speed; velocity
word from ¦t¯è astronavigation
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tao2yi4 - to escape su4du4 - speed; velocity word from ¦t¯è astronavigation |
December 14, 1997 |
 liang3 - two; twice ci4 - time; times yun4 - to transport; move carry qiu2 - ball yun4qiu2 - to dribble (a ball) word from Äx²y basketball |
December 13, 1997 |
 This word scooped from the annals of zoology demonstrates the descriptive nature of many Chinese words. For the student learning Chinese vocabulary, it provides a word that can nail down the two characters in the word. My experience has been that a word like this is not soon forgotten and that, although its utility as a word is limited, it is useful in learning the language. tun2 - buttocks you2 - wart; pustule |
December 11, 1997The Philadelphia Zoo Online Don't Call Me Monkey - Old World Monkeys |
 These are two characters that you probably won't see too often and if and when you do, it'll probably be this word from biochemistry. A nitrogen-containing, single-ring, basic compound that occurs in nucleotides of DNA and RNA. The purines in DNA and RNA are adenine and guanine. auf Deutsch - Verbindungen, die in den Zellen aller Lebewesen vorkommen. Sie spielen eine Schlüsselrolle bei der Erbinformation. Das Endprodukt beim Abbau der Purine ist die Harnsäure. Bei Gicht ist der Harnsäuregehalt im Blut erhöht, deshalb müssen purinreiche Nahrungsmittel gemieden werden. |
December 11, 1997 Click the picture for some lecture notes!! |
 luo2 - spiral shell; snail The nautilus is a cephalopod mollusc related to the octopus and squid. Unlike its relatives, the nautilus resides in a beautiful chambered shell. The animal's appearance is bizarre in a very appealing way. In some respects it can be considered a living fossil, the last of its kind, surviving from the ancient seas of Earth. |
December 10, 1997
The Cephalopod Page - Nautilus The link above will take you to a picture of a living nautilus |
 1. name of a legendary ferocious animal 2. a fierce person; a greedy and gluttonous person The taotie appears on artifacts from ancient China such as the one shown here on a bronze urn. |
December 9, 1997
Bronze Urn with a taotie mask (notice the little guy standing on the head of the taotie) |
 Depending on the software you use to view Chinese the accented "n" may not display properly. This is a phonetic transliteration from English (actually Spanish) into Chinese, and in this case the characters' meanings are not really that significant (except the first, e4, which means "distressed, in difficulty). I found this word in an article in Mingbao newspaper describing recent storms in Southern California as perhaps being an effect of el Niño. |
December 8, 1997El Niño 1997 -1998 In Spanish - El Niño informaciones El Nino Theme Page Info from NOAA |
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