Are you going to do a video on Cantonese end particles? I think they're a really interesting part of Cantonese that adds a lot of meaning into a sentence, by using just a tiny word at the end.
0:41 "When you look at the character '士', what does it look like?" After 30+ years of learning Chinese it still looks like the English '±' plus/minus symbol or like '土' tu.
3:04 I only know of three kingdoms from the Romance series video games and Dynasty Warriors games. Is this the right channel to ask about a comparison?!? 🧐 🤜🏻🤛🏻
士 or 仕 (a variant) is also a piece in Chinese Chess (Xiangqi). The piece itself has been translated to "advisor" and "assistant", but I think "guard" is best.
Thank you so much. Could you direct me to where I can find writings of Xunzi where he says the part about going against or with the king? I am writing book and would like to have a citation. This video was very helpful. thank you!
The first definition of shi (士) that I learned was "knight". Different culture, different history, but some similarity. Isn't that true of countless words in a language from a different culture? But this video's explanation of Chinese history was very interesting -- more interesting than reading wikipedia.
Very informative! Ah, so now I know why in Chinese, Sailor Moon is 美少女戦士! Looking forward to the words that don't have an English translation video! Keep it up!
As I am Vietnamese, I find Chinese really comfortable to transliterate the characters because Chinese culture is somehow identical to Vietnamese one, but sometimes I sometimes scratches my head to figure out the principles of characters 士: soliders, but 土 is the ground, turf, soil.... Please help me to define them lol. BTW the word 士 is code switched easily between Vietnamese and Cantonese as many Guangdong people settled in Saigon many years ago. I can give you example Chiến sĩ 戰士 Dũng sĩ 勇士
Master, but in the broader sense, thus an academic master as well as a master warrior; well, that's it's original meaning, I don't believe it meant master in the sense of owner of slaves, that i guess would be zhu ren?; or am i mistaken? any way in modernity it means master like master locksmith, master sergeant; i don't think shi 士 has anything to do with 10 十字 or dirt 土
Sleeping dogs aka "dak-laaaaaaaaa" cell phone man sent me here.... I have no idea what that means, something from Hong Kong and no one knows what he's saying... That's literally what the subtitles say
Minister Yuqian from the Ming dynasty was wrongly executed. Just before his execution who wrote a poem/ letter. Can you do a show about Yuqian and this poem?
Wow, this is interesting and it should be interesting how the language may be corrupted in these days since the 1900s+ Thank you for sharing do people still respect the Emperor or morality in government circles in China?
Yeah but u said Shi was a special group who valued morality, played by the rules and completed their mission. I'd say he hits that mark; at least he gets my vote. haha.
I think the main reason these kind of words are so difficult to translate is because most Chinese titles are gender neutral while most English titles are gender specific.
It's just a typical southern Chinese accent. By that theory all southern Chinese can be considered non-Mandarin native speakers. Even though I'm still considerably more fluent in Mandarin than in my native dialect
@@YummYakitori nope, she is really not native speaker, taiwanese didn't speak like this, she have many hypercorrection in mandarin phoneme. she say ch in sh word and her ch sounds looks like english, of course she dont have sh sound, this make clear she are non native speaker. another example, she say lu bu, not lv bu. she dont have /y/ vowel, because cantonese dont have it.
Your folk etymology for the character 士 is completely false and misleading. 士 was written in earlier scripts as a tool similar to an axe, and the creation of the character seems to be associated with 士's derived meaning of a soldier. However, the original meaning of the word probably had to do with service. Meanings like soldier, minister, scholar all derived from the meaning to serve. It then became an honorific, reffering to anyone politely, as in 女士 and 男士. To differentiate these new loaded meanings, characters such as 仕 and 侍 were created to exclusive mean scholar, minister or service.
From “A Guide to Remembering Chinese Characters” by Kenneth G. Henshall: “Very old forms such as 丄 show a symbol indicating ‘being erect,’ a reference to the erect *male organ*. The later cross-stroke is seen by some scholars as an aesthetic embellishment to give balance to the character, by others as a stylized indication of the glans. The erect male organ symbolizes *masculinity*, and hence *man*. Samurai/warrior is felt by some scholars to be a borrowed meaning from serving man, 仕, but this is something of a circular argument and unconvincing. It is more likely that the warrior was seen as the epitome of masculinity. Scholar is an associated meaning.” Just sayin’... Also: en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/士
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I saw taxis had signs including that letter in Hongkong or macau. Any relation? By the way so glad to find this channel is running again.
@@nofeetbirdnofeetbird6470 I think it's more of a phonetic thing than a meaning thing. Both bus and taxi sound like what they are in Chinese.
緣份, 曖昧, 奈何/無奈, 孝順 😄
Neoi and Naam sound like they start with an L 😵💫
Carmen, you’re the Si6.
A great way to remember 士 is that it looks like a traditional scholarly cap/head gear that Chinese men wore.
i love this! now that's all i see
it looks to me like a fighter jet from Top Gun xD
I think it’s cool that so many languages in the whole are so different and there are certain words, phrases, and grammars that can't be translated! 😃
yeah! all those nuances and the deep historical ties are fascinating
I'm glad to see you guys were back a few months ago!
I'm learning Cantonese, and your videos really help me!
We were taught that same character in Japanese meant "warrior". So much meaning gets lost in the ocean.
Japanese warriors are samurai, who were very strict with their loyalty and stuff. Meaning is not lost.
Are you going to do a video on Cantonese end particles? I think they're a really interesting part of Cantonese that adds a lot of meaning into a sentence, by using just a tiny word at the end.
oooh yes!!! i have such a hard time explaining to non-canto speakers how to use different ending words!
I always have a hard time explaining 'la'
0:41 "When you look at the character '士', what does it look like?" After 30+ years of learning Chinese it still looks like the English '±' plus/minus symbol or like '土' tu.
Thank you for educating me on some Chinese characters. I love this channel since 2013 till now. You are the best Carmen.
thanks for sticking around!
Please keep going with these.
(Good to see your Channel active again, by the way.)
Great dive into the character!
Carmen has always been my fav in this channel
What a lovely video. Thank you for your kindness in sharing your knowledge and culture. It’s fascinating and inspiring. 🙏🏻
Oh please explain them all! You are so good at this and make it so fun and engaging. Keep up the great work!
3:04 I only know of three kingdoms from the Romance series video games and Dynasty Warriors games. Is this the right channel to ask about a comparison?!? 🧐
🤜🏻🤛🏻
hahaha... that would mean I would need to play the games..... something to look into 🤔
Hahaha! Same same!
@@NTDOffTheGreatWall an excuse* to play the game 😉😉
Very happy you’re back making great informative videos Carman. 多謝！
士 or 仕 (a variant) is also a piece in Chinese Chess (Xiangqi). The piece itself has been translated to "advisor" and "assistant", but I think "guard" is best.
Hmmm....it's my children's middle name....given by our ancestors...
This is so fascinating. In Japanese it’s simply translated as “samurai” or “gentlemen” and has a warrior or professional connotation
It's hard to do direct translation between Chinese to English. You got regional dialects, etc
Mannnnnnnnn lol says the one that is fluently speaking Mandarin and Cantonese... All I got is Engrishyy and Spanish bro...
I am SOOOOOoooo happy Carmen is back .... finally this Channel has meaning again.
I like the way you compare between 2 languages.
I'm so happy Carmen is back.
Nice! Great explanation of a simple word with much meaning
Thank you for the great explanation and for having both Mandarin and Cantonese!
I've heard of the Three Kingdomes many times but this is the first time I really understood its origins. Thanks!
informative video! love it.
I miss the food videos! Bring them back!
Thank you so much. Could you direct me to where I can find writings of Xunzi where he says the part about going against or with the king? I am writing book and would like to have a citation. This video was very helpful. thank you!
similar question for Confucius' view of shi? Wondering where I could read a translation to cite. thanks!
I love that your videos address canto!
This is very interesting 😃 very impressive explanation
The first definition of shi (士) that I learned was "knight". Different culture, different history, but some similarity. Isn't that true of countless words in a language from a different culture? But this video's explanation of Chinese history was very interesting -- more interesting than reading wikipedia.
Very informative! Ah, so now I know why in Chinese, Sailor Moon is 美少女戦士!
Looking forward to the words that don't have an English translation video! Keep it up!
Yes! Sailor moon are 'pretty young female fighters'
Wow!!! This content is amazing!!!
So Master in Canto is basically pronounced like "sexy" ?? Imagine a bunch of chicks coming up to me in a bar
"Hey master ;-') " LMAO
食屎 in canto also sounds like sexy :D
This is so cool. I never bothered to look it up. It's also one of the pieces in Chinese chess.
Woo Hoo! Well done Carmen, very interesting.
I wonder if you'll tackle 缘分。 Usually translated as fate or destiny.... but not really that either.
*Hey, you're back?*
The head sweater
great lesson!
In Japanese, 士 means Samurai. ☺️
Good...keep going this...(Just like a school lesson.)
Can you, please, film a video about Cantonese seafood vocabulary?
so 1 to 10 is like Amazon being A to Z...
As I am Vietnamese, I find Chinese really comfortable to transliterate the characters because Chinese culture is somehow identical to Vietnamese one, but sometimes I sometimes scratches my head to figure out the principles of characters
士: soliders, but 土 is the ground, turf, soil.... Please help me to define them lol. BTW the word 士 is code switched easily between Vietnamese and Cantonese as many Guangdong people settled in Saigon many years ago. I can give you example
Chiến sĩ 戰士
Dũng sĩ 勇士
also the highly regarded buses and taxis :D
The unexpected old Funhaus video as the "smash the like button" gif. *_*
Perhaps the word "esquire" fits?
I wish you could explain the character 鑫 森 垚 淼 炎 五行。
thanks for this interesting story and the the same time can learn cantonese and mandarin。🙂
In Taiwanese Mandarin we say 先生、小姐 more often,
Master, but in the broader sense, thus an academic master as well as a master warrior; well, that's it's original meaning, I don't believe it meant master in the sense of owner of slaves, that i guess would be zhu ren?; or am i mistaken? any way in modernity it means master like master locksmith, master sergeant; i don't think shi 士 has anything to do with 10 十字 or dirt 土
I will translate it as a person, such as 無名士, but the word is never (or rarely) use independently, always attached to something.
Basically the only time it’s used independently is in chess
2:15 hmmmm
非常好的短片，可以用來教導移民到外國小朋友學正體中文字，謝謝你。
Sleeping dogs aka "dak-laaaaaaaaa" cell phone man sent me here.... I have no idea what that means, something from Hong Kong and no one knows what he's saying... That's literally what the subtitles say
Minister Yuqian from the Ming dynasty was wrongly executed. Just before his execution who wrote a poem/ letter. Can you do a show about Yuqian and this poem?
Wow, this is interesting and it should be interesting how the language may be corrupted in these days since the 1900s+
Thank you for sharing do people still respect the Emperor or morality in government circles in China?
Thanks, please setting substitle to indonesian language
Salute to our youth.
So the "plus or minus" sign means nothing in Chinese?
LOL I didn’t see it as plus or minus. Can’t unsee
Where is the british guy that used to be in your videos?
士
I always think of the Chinese Chess piece when I see this word.
M'sai hoch hey xD lol
I think whoever wrote the definition for " 士 " had one fall off the wall and struck them in the head ..
I would not dare ... I maybe next
Liked and shared.
appreciate it!
I learned Chinese language
Why is it not gua mu xiang kan?
It works too! I’m san guo lv meng said Xiang Dai so to not confuse people
I just stuck with what he said. Ppl nowadays would probably use Kan.
Am heree
hiiiii
Omg haii
This information is so thought provoking that I unconsciously stroke my long make believe beard 😊
I’m glad you got the joke!!
My :china / spain
You: ..........................................................
That is hard
Ok what about 巴士
Please do the character 是
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My dumb ass thought this was 土 🤦🏻♀️
shi is what i got
... but Zhuge Liang had to be the smartest in the 3 Kingdoms, everybody was always asking his advice.
hahaha probably... but he wasn't part of that story.
Yeah but u said Shi was a special group who valued morality, played by the rules and completed their mission. I'd say he hits that mark; at least he gets my vote. haha.
I think the main reason these kind of words are so difficult to translate is because most Chinese titles are gender neutral while most English titles are gender specific.
I don’t think gender is at play here
very difficult to follow in both Mandarin and Cantonese, esp at such speed.
2:15 SEKSY
Hi
This is an example as to why Mandarin is the hardest language to learn.
we can do it!!
@@NTDOffTheGreatWall Patience is a virtue
Early!
hahaha... is it?
i cant believe you forget the 的士 SMH😤
you looks like non-mandarin native speaker because you say ㄔ/ʃ/ in ㄕ/ɹ̠̊˔/ word, and say ㄨ/u/ in ㄩ/y/ word.
It's just a typical southern Chinese accent. By that theory all southern Chinese can be considered non-Mandarin native speakers. Even though I'm still considerably more fluent in Mandarin than in my native dialect
@@YummYakitori nope, she is really not native speaker, taiwanese didn't speak like this, she have many hypercorrection in mandarin phoneme.
she say ch in sh word and her ch sounds looks like english, of course she dont have sh sound, this make clear she are non native speaker.
another example, she say lu bu, not lv bu. she dont have /y/ vowel, because cantonese dont have it.
0:46
It can be either 巴士 🚃 as bus or 的士🚕 as taxi.
I think those are more phonetic sounds for bus and taxi so the meaning doesn’t apply in this case.
you still pronounce it wrong, its neoi5 not leoi5 and naam4 not laam4. Gotta work on those lazy tone if you are going to teach people.
@Albert YK Chen could be, but she dont look like it
Carmen was born in Macau(She moved to Australia).
I’m not sure if Macanese Cantonese has the lazy voice that is commonly used in Hong Kong Cantonese.
@@analysis1018 true that. I guess it just depend on where she learns it from.
First
wow you're fast!
Your folk etymology for the character 士 is completely false and misleading. 士 was written in earlier scripts as a tool similar to an axe, and the creation of the character seems to be associated with 士's derived meaning of a soldier. However, the original meaning of the word probably had to do with service. Meanings like soldier, minister, scholar all derived from the meaning to serve. It then became an honorific, reffering to anyone politely, as in 女士 and 男士. To differentiate these new loaded meanings, characters such as 仕 and 侍 were created to exclusive mean scholar, minister or service.
From “A Guide to Remembering Chinese Characters” by Kenneth G. Henshall:
“Very old forms such as 丄 show a symbol indicating ‘being erect,’ a reference to the erect *male organ*. The later cross-stroke is seen by some scholars as an aesthetic embellishment to give balance to the character, by others as a stylized indication of the glans. The erect male organ symbolizes *masculinity*, and hence *man*. Samurai/warrior is felt by some scholars to be a borrowed meaning from serving man, 仕, but this is something of a circular argument and unconvincing. It is more likely that the warrior was seen as the epitome of masculinity. Scholar is an associated meaning.”
Just sayin’...
Also:
en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/士
I learned Chinese language