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changye
Posted on: World Cup and Diamonds
June 16, 2010 at 2:55 AMI guess it must be rather tough for the Japan-raised Korean guy to play with trueborn North Korean players.
Posted on: World Cup and Diamonds
June 15, 2010 at 11:16 PMHi funkfelipe
“云” also means "say", although it's not frequently used in modern Chinese, as you expected. In Japanese, “云” basically always means "say", interestingly.
Posted on: World Cup and Diamonds
June 15, 2010 at 11:10 AMPersonally I would prefer samurai wigs, which seem to be more appropriate when rooting for "Samurai Japan"!
Posted on: World Cup and Diamonds
June 15, 2010 at 10:37 AMGee, as a Japanese, this is the last thing I wanted to see in the World Cup. What a poor taste it is!
Posted on: World Cup and Diamonds
June 14, 2010 at 10:28 AMHI xiaophil
I don't know how to say it in Chinese, but there is a good counterpart in Japanese, i.e. “判官贔屓” (hou-gan-bi-iki), which originates in a tragic story of Minamoto Yoshitsune, who is one of the most well known/beloved Samurai warriors in Japan. This is a typical sentiment that Japanese people have. Below is an explanation about the saying in Wikipedia.
Yoshitsune has long been a popular figure in Japanese literature and culture due to his appearance as the main character in the third section of the Japanese literary classic Heike Monogatari (Tale of the Heike). The Japanese term for "sympathy for a tragic hero", Hougan-biiki, comes from Yoshitsune's title Hougan, which he received from the Imperial Court.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamoto_no_Yoshitsune#See_also
Posted on: Doing the math with 算 (suàn)
June 12, 2010 at 2:21 AM明天我要找你算帐 (suan4 zhang4)！
I will get even with you tomorrow.
Posted on: A Tour of Xi'an
June 11, 2010 at 1:21 PM"City walls" are called “城墙” (cheng2qiang2) in Chinese. Exactly speaking, the single character “城” itself indicates “defensive (city) walls”, as seen in the word “万里长城” (the Great Wall). “城市” means "city" in modern Chinese, which implies a residential area (or markets) surrounded by defensive walls in the past.
Posted on: World Cup and Diamonds
June 11, 2010 at 6:54 AMI wonder how many of those hooligans can make it back alive.
Posted on: World Cup and Diamonds
June 11, 2010 at 6:15 AMI recently suspect that there is a problem with my Internet provider here.
Posted on: World Cup and Diamonds
June 16, 2010 at 2:59 AMJudging from the photo, your understanding about Japanese culture is not so precise, hehe.