men2 - door; gate Here is a word from electronics and digital logic. The word seems almost trivial once you know it, but it is a good technical term and easy to learn because it is so easy. The NOT gate is a circuit which produces at its output the negated (inverted) version of its input logic. The circuit is also known as an inverter. If the input variable is A, the inverted output is written as A with a line above it. The symbol for a NOT gate looks like: |
June 25, 1998Boolean Algebra and Logic Circuits Follow the link to Logic Circuits Introductory Digital Electronics This home-page is designed for a course in Electronics for high school Science students. |
guo1 - used in the word for crucible lu2 - stove; oven; furnace; fireplace; hearth Here is a word from chemistry. gan1guo1 means "crucible". The only word where you're likely to see these two characters is this one. The third character is fairly common and shows up in word combinations having to do with the meanings given above. |
June 24, 1998Combustion and Chemical Engineering PTY. LTD Info on crucibles and furnaces |
lun4 - theory; system of thought Here's a math term. What is a set? A set is a collection of objects, real or imagined. The objects themselves are called elements of the set. Moreover, we adopt rules for manipulating a single or several sets. In this way we have created an environment in which we can formally and symbolically represent anything we wish, real or imagined. [copied from: Sets - a Casual Introduction] |
June 23, 1998SET THEORY PAGE There are many sites on the Web that contain material explicitly or implicitly related to set theory. This page is intended to collect as many of these sites as possible, and provide links to them. The CRC Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics This site provides a search engine for math terms. You can use it to get more info on sets, calculus, chaos theory, ... |
qiu2 - a ball; sphere; globe; anything shaped like a ball I enjoy words like this! What a great description of a spike in volleyball! Kill (the) ball!!! |
June 22, 1998Volleyball in China, People's Republic of |
si1 - used in the word for egret There's not too much to comment on with this word. Here are two Chinese characters that are primarily used in this one word. The link to the right shows a picture of the type of egret that we see in Southern New Jersey. |
June 19, 1998The Assateague Naturalist The Great Egret |
wu3qu3 - dance music wu3 - dance qun2 - skirt quan1 - circle; ring I received word today via e-mail that Tripod is increasing my web space from 15 Megs to 22 Megs. To celebrate, I'm putting up three words instead of one. The first two, hula dance and hula skirt, are related to Hawaiian culture. The third word, hula hoop, refers to a toy which was quite a fad in the fifties and recently made a come-back. |
June 4, 1998Mining Co. Guide to Hawaiian Culture; Hula and more! Steve 'Hoops' Parkes's Hula Hoop Instruction Page Learn to Hula (hoop)! |
huan1 - badger Most of the names of marsupials that I have found in Chinese seem to start with a character, dai4, which describes the attribute that distinguishes marsupials from other mammals, the bag or pouch or marsupium. Here's the name of a marsupial which has earned a nasty reputation the world round. |
June 3, 1998Tasmanian Devil A description and picture of a real "Taz"!! |
hua4 - painting; picture Here's a word I found surfing the net!! Check out the link to the right to navigate to the spot where I found it!! You'll find several animated gifs there including a couple with Chinese characters. |
June 2, 1998此為個人收集的動畫 Chinese animated gifs!! |
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