A friend said his son’s Chinese composition wrote the 成语 “日丽风和” but the teacher marked it wrong and scribbled the supposedly correct version “风和日丽” beside it. My friend was perplexed because he was pretty sure that his son is right, but he just didn’t know how to “challenge” the teacher……
朋友在追剧，对“白色强人”和最近热播中的“超能使者”的女主角唐诗咏印象深刻，所以好奇问了：她的名字繁体是“詩詠”，简体应该是“诗讠永”才对，为什么会是“诗咏”呢，是不是字幕打错了。“詠”和“咏”是异体字关系，简单来说……
留意到本地、中国和西方的媒体在报道英女王的离世多用“逝世”和“享年”等词，马国、台湾的媒体则多用“驾崩”和“享寿或享耆寿”。这些词都特指人的离世，它们之间有何区别…
“逝世和驾崩”、“享年和享寿”有何区别？ Read More »
Macpherson CC organized a cupid event. Someone commented that the event name in Chinese “鹊桥会”（鹊què）is inauspicious. Was she right?…
请问“后”的繁体是不是“後”？如果你答是，恭喜你答对了一半。50年代汉字简化前，“后”和“後”是两个独立的字形，所表达的是两个完全不同的意思。简化后，两个字形合并为“后”，虽然字形一样了，但字义仍有区别……
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