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   Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 14:47:06 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

   If there's no stronger argument for the need to learn how to read Chinese, it is this! Two characters can have the same pronunciation and tone but mean slightly different things. I learned the character for person (rén) 人 and its radical version 亻as a kid, and now I know 仁 which means "humane", and the way the components fit together is rather poetic.

   #Languages #Mandarin #Chinese

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 14:54:46 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     • Sashin

     @sashin I should've written it better, but I meant I learned how to write the characters as a kid.

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     Sashin (sashin@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 14:54:47 JST Sashin

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     @liztai Two kids?

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     Sashin (sashin@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 14:56:14 JST Sashin

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     @liztai Oh wait, two people!

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 14:56:14 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     @sashin 仁 is made of two components (I think): 亻and 二 (two)