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Dylan Levi King
@dylanleviking
Little bit about me, I like game shows based on knowledge of Chinese. Most of it's over my head, but here's a fun and relatively easy one: which Beijing landmark's name can be rhotacized, Yiheyuan 颐和园, Forbidden City 紫禁城, Tiananmen 天安门, or Jingshan Park 景山公园?
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Dylan Levi King
@dylanleviking
The next question is forgiving, too. Why is Shaanxi 陕西 written with the double 'a's instead of standard pinyin spelling (Shanxi)? Is it because of Shaanxi dialect, to differentiate it from Shanxi 山西, a spelling mistake by foreigners, or because two 'a's mark stress?
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Dylan Levi King
@dylanleviking
A tougher one here. Take a character with the same components rearranged (like 刀 dāo and 口 kǒu could be 召 zhào [召见] or 叨 dāo [叨扰]), and fill in the blanks __晒 shài, __区 qū with a similarly rearranged character.
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