![]() ![]() There’s a chance you’ll need to be learning the new meanings and pronunciations as brand new words.Two things to know about learning polyphonic characters: Now there’s a page for each pronunciation and its assorted meanings and a link to its other pronunciations so you can learn each individually. They may look the same, but they are different characters after all. We used to show you the different pronunciations and meanings of a polyphonic character in the same word page. ![]() Improving how we deal with polyphonic wordsĭid you know that some words in Chinese have multiple pronunciations and meanings, but look exactly the same? These characters are called polyphonic characters (literally, words with multiple pronunciations). In addition to adding a whole dictionary to Ninchanese and greatly improving our word pages, here are a few more notable changes you may want to know about. Maybe you’ll run into one you want to share with your pals? Or maybe you want to save it to one of your Pinterest boards for future reference? You can now do that and it’ll look like this: Chinese is full of funny expressions and words. You can now also share each page on your favorite social network. Nifty, don’t you think? Here’s a gif to show you exactly how it works: This allows you to instantly look up a word on Ninchanese in your url bar and call up its word page directly. Here’s a tip to easily look up new words: type (also works on ) like you normally would, to access your Chinese learning app. Say you want to look up a word in Chinese on Ninchanese? Pretty cool way to discover new idioms, don’t you think? Easily look up words The Chinese language is well known for its idiomatic expressions, idioms, the most famous of all being its 4 character idioms, the 成语, chengyu. For each character or word you look up, we now show you the idioms that contain that character or word. This includes words that begin with the character you’re looking up and words that end with the character you’re looking up. Click on any of those words to see their definition in a separate page. Modern Chinese words are usually composed of more than one character so it’s always extremely interesting to see all the words that contain the character or characters you’re looking up.įor each single or multiple characters, you search for, you can now browse a list of the words that contain this character. The character 提 tí, for instance, is a compound of 是 (where 扌 is the meaning component, providing a clue to the word’s meaning and 是 is the phonetic component – it’s a stretch, but tí sounds a little close to shì) Here’s an example with the Chinese word 是 shì. It’s a first step towards the implementation of Traditional Chinese in Ninchanese!Ĭompounds are single characters that contain the character you looked up as one of their components. ![]() Now, on each word page, you can see and switch between the two forms. Mandarin Chinese has two written forms: Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese. Now, in addition to all that, when you look up a character, you can now also see: Get information on the character’s composition: what components or elements is it made of?.See an example sentence for each of its meaning, when available.For a given word or Chinese character, say 猫, before the update, you could: We reworked the way word pages worked to bring you more information on each word. A detailed word page for each Chinese character and word (which you can share) More Chinese words to explore in Chinese meant more information to show you, so we seized this opportunity to improve the word pages for each character and word. Tatatatat BATMAN ^^ 蝙蝠侠 – Biān fú xiá on your go-to online dictionary? We’ve incorporated the whole CC-CEDICT database in Ninchanese for your viewing pleasure! That’s over 100, 000 Chinese characters and words you can now look up, explore and discover directly in the app.Īs you can guess from this funny tweet, all sorts of words and names are now browsable in Ninchanese: Ninchanese used to be your fave Chinese learning tool, did you know it can now also be…. Here are the changes and improvements what you can see in this update. Don’t be jealous, you’ll soon be seeing the consequences and results of those background improvements! And not to worry, there’s still plenty to see in this update. A lot of the work we did was behind the scenes, so you won’t be seeing a big part of the changes we’ve made. ![]() In this update, we focused a lot on improving and reworking our way of dealing with Chinese characters. In fact, it’s an update of biblical proportions… well, not biblical but of dictionary proportions at least, with lots more Chinese words in Ninchanese. Hi guys, we’re back with a new update for Ninchanese! And guess what? It’s monumental. ![]()
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