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How many tokens is a Chinese character, and what Chinese AI companies call things
Four Chinese model vendors publish the same ratio in their own documentation: a Chinese character is about 0.6 of a toke...
What a seal script converter can and cannot do
Seal script got its own Unicode block on 16 September 2026 — 11,328 characters — and a converter will still leave 的, th...
How to write the amount on a Hong Kong cheque in words
English or Chinese are both accepted, and whichever you write, the words beat the figures. Write HK$10,001 in Chinese an...
How Chinese generation names work, and how to find your family's poem
A generation poem belongs to a branch, not a surname, and its character is usually the first of the given name rather th...
What dim sum names mean, and why menus translate them so many ways
Har gow is a shrimp dumpling, cheung fun a rice-noodle roll, and Singapore's carrot cake is really white radish. We copi...
When yi (一) and bu (不) change tone, and why pinyin usually doesn't show it
一 is said yí before a fourth tone and yì before the others; 不 becomes bú only before a fourth tone; and a third tone r...
Why Hong Kong place names don't follow Jyutping
荃灣 is Tsuen Wan and 杏花邨 is Heng Fa Chuen, though 荃 and 邨 sound the same. We converted 2,870 official Hong Kong na...
How Zhuyin (bopomofo) maps to pinyin, and where a simple chart goes wrong
Zhuyin's 37 symbols line up with pinyin letters, so a chart gets you most of the way. But against every syllable in Taiw...
How hot, how much and how long to brew each Chinese tea
Green tea near 80 °C, oolong near 95 °C, ripe pu-erh at a boil, and black tea anywhere between. We compared 11 published...
How to count fan in Hong Kong mahjong, and why every table scores differently
In Hong Kong mahjong every table agrees that all chows is 1 fan and a full flush 7, but the rarer hands and the payout s...
What bone weight (称骨) most people get
In the 称骨 bone-weighing reading, the most common weight is 3两9钱 and the middle one is 4两. We added up the weight fo...
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