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RT-CHN-015 24 Solar Terms Reference (二十四节气)

Year → 24 节气 exact dates + times

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RT-CHN-011 Chinese Age Calculator (Nominal & Actual)

虚岁 / 实岁 dual age

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RT-CHN-019 Chinese Baby Name Suggester (中文起名宝典)

Curated character pool by element + stroke

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RT-CHN-074 Chinese Clan Generation Poem Lookup (字辈查询)

30 major surnames' 字辈/字派 · root-tracing + naming

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RT-CHN-050 Chinese Color Symbolism (中国传统色彩文化)

24 traditional colors · hex codes · cultural meanings

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RT-CHN-053 Chinese Folk Symbols Guide (中国民俗符号图鉴)

18 auspicious symbols · meanings · classical origins

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RT-CHN-099 Chinese Greeting Generator (吉祥話/賀詞)

Auspicious greetings for New Year, weddings, birthdays and more

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RT-CHN-075 Chinese Internet Slang Decoder (网络用语翻译)

yyds / 666 / 内卷 / 躺平 · 41 terms · 2000s-2020s

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RT-CHN-073 Chinese Kinship Calculator (亲戚称谓计算器)

Walk the relationship, get the 称呼 — 堂/表, 伯/叔, 姑/舅/姨, 简 + 繁

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RT-CHN-049 Chinese Knot Pattern Guide (中国结图解)

10 traditional knot patterns · cultural meanings · difficulty

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RT-CHN-016 Chinese Lucky Number Checker (吉祥数字)

Number → per-digit lucky/avoid + score

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RT-CHN-045 Chinese Lunar Festival Calendar (中国传统节日历)

11 major festivals · Gregorian dates · traditions

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RT-CHN-052 Chinese Number Culture (中国数字文化)

18 numbers · homophones · luck ratings · cultural usage

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RT-CHN-100 Chinese Poetry Line Search (詩詞名句)

Search 唐詩三百首 + 千家詩 for a famous line, poet or title

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RT-CHN-098 Chinese Proverb Dictionary (諺語俗語)

Common Chinese proverbs and sayings, with meanings

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RT-CHN-021 Chinese Surname Origin (百家姓查询)

42 surnames · clan history · dialect spellings

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RT-CHN-044 Chinese Tea Brewing Timer (中国茶冲泡计时器)

六大茶类 · gongfu method · live countdown + audio beep

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RT-CHN-063 Chinese Wedding Bride Price (聘金计算)

5 regions × 3 tiers · bride price + dowry + banquet

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RT-FAM-009 Chinese Zodiac Calculator

Your Chinese zodiac animal, element and yin-yang

Family & Heritage →
RT-CHN-048 Dim Sum Dish Guide (港式点心指南)

50 classic HK dim sum · Jyutping · category · price tier

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RT-CHN-072 Family Tree Builder (家谱图生成器)

Drag-and-drop tree · auto relationship labels · SVG / PNG export

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RT-CHN-017 Hong Bao Amount Generator (红包金额)

Budget + occasion → 12 lucky amounts

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RT-CHN-043 I-Ching 64 Hexagrams (易经六十四卦)

64 hexagrams · line patterns · trigrams · coin-cast simulation

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RT-CHN-064 Lucky Phone Number Picker (手机号选号)

Score & rank candidate numbers · 168/888 vs 444/514

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RT-CHN-046 Mahjong Scoring HK Style (港式麻将番数计算)

Hong Kong fan scoring · base × 2^min(fan, cap) · HK/SG/MY

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RT-CHN-051 Spring Festival Couplet Generator (春联生成器)

40+ classic 春联 by 7 themes · vertical 上下联 + 横披 · print PDF

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RT-CHN-080 Tang Poetry Browser (唐诗三百首精选)

40 首精选 · 李白 杜甫 王维 白居易 · 拼音 + 英文背景

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RT-CHN-047 Xiangqi Interactive Board (中国象棋互动棋盘)

Full 9×10 board · 32 pieces · click-to-move · auto-notation (Chinese + WXF)

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RT-CHN-097 Xiehouyu Dictionary (歇後語)

Two-part allegorical sayings — setup, punchline and meaning

Chinese Language & Script →
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A classroom pinyin wall chart headed 声母表 and 韵母表, its cells pairing each sound with a small illustration, hanging beside a blackboard. Chinese Culture 6 min Half the pronunciation changes people argued about had already happened The viral lists of Chinese readings the ministry supposedly changed trace to a 2016 draft that was never issue... EV Eva Chin 4 Sep The Taipei skyline seen across the city, with Taipei 101 rising above the surrounding buildings. Chinese Culture 6 min Taiwan's passport rules name no romanisation system at all The received account is that Taiwan uses Wade-Giles, or 通用拼音, or has moved to Hanyu Pinyin. Article 14 of... EV Eva Chin 4 Sep Trays of metal letterpress type seen from above, individual raised letter blocks sorted into red compartments, the nearest ones in sharp focus. Chinese Culture 6 min The letter Chinese passports will not print Hanyu Pinyin has a letter no Chinese travel document will print: ü. The rule that replaces it is two rules, no... EV Eva Chin 2 Sep A Chinese calligraphy practice book lying open on a pale desk, its ruled grid squares each holding one traditional character in regular script, with a hand at the right holding a brush pen above the page. Chinese Culture 10 min 花 has seven strokes, and eight, and ten Count it on the mainland and you get seven. Taiwan's education ministry says eight. A 五格 name reading says t... EV Eva Chin 2 Sep The wave-patterned Portuguese paving of Senado Square in Macau, with the white Leal Senado building on the left and a pink colonial-era building on the right under an overcast sky. Chinese Culture 7 min The 226-page book that decides how Macau spells your name Macau has a statutory table for romanising Cantonese names, running 226 pages of the 1985 gazette. Hong Kong h... EV Eva Chin 2 Sep A vertical pink neon sign spelling three Chinese characters, glowing against a dark city street at night with blurred lights behind it. Chinese Culture 6 min Most 火星文 converters are running the same copied file Feed the same characters to several Martian-text converters and most agree exactly. That looks like a standard... EV Eva Chin 1 Sep A Chinese calligraphy practice sheet printed with traditional characters in a grid, with a black ink stone, a brush and two small jade water droppers resting on top of it. Chinese Culture 6 min Why a converter turns a toast into an obscenity 干杯 converts to 乾杯 correctly. Insert one character and 干了一杯 comes back 幹了一杯, which reads as an obsc... EV Eva Chin 1 Sep A tray of movable metal printing type, the letters in sharp focus in the foreground. Chinese Culture 9 min Most advice on writing Chinese dates quotes a standard that was replaced in 2011 The rules for numbers and dates in Chinese publications were revised in 2011. A great deal of guidance, includ... EV Eva Chin 1 Sep A weathered stone sundial, its gnomon casting a shadow across the engraved dial face. Chinese Culture 8 min The Chinese festivals that are set by the sun, not the moon Most Chinese festivals fall on a lunar date, and two of the best known do not. Qingming and the Winter Solstic... EV Eva Chin 1 Sep A Chinese calligraphy brush resting across a shallow dish of black ink. Chinese Culture 8 min The character that means a million in Beijing and a million million in Taipei 兆 is the SI prefix for mega on the mainland and for tera in Taiwan. It is not a gap between the two conventio... EV Eva Chin 1 Sep A dense field of stars against a dark night sky Chinese Culture 6 min Why two calculators give you different birth charts The same birth details can produce different charts because the tradition has argued for centuries about when... EV Eva Chin 31 Aug A gilded Chinese signboard mounted beneath a temple eave Chinese Culture 5 min What happens to Chinese punctuation when text runs vertically Turning Chinese sideways does not turn its punctuation sideways. Quotation marks become different characters e... EV Eva Chin 31 Aug A calligraphy brush drawing a broad black stroke on white paper Chinese Culture 5 min There is no single order to learn Chinese characters There are at least four orderings, built for different jobs, and they disagree about the first hundred charact... EV Eva Chin 31 Aug Trays of Chinese movable type beside a freshly printed page ASEAN Tech 5 min The Chinese characters a bank computer cannot store A rare character in a legal name fails in four different ways that look identical from the counter. One of the... SA Sarah Chew 31 Aug Lit paper lanterns with Chinese characters hanging in a row Chinese Culture 5 min Why Tet and Chinese New Year sometimes fall a month apart In 1985 Vietnam celebrated on 21 January and China on 20 February. The explanation everyone gives for the usua... EV Eva Chin 31 Aug Illuminated Chinese neon shop signs above a Hong Kong street at night Chinese Culture 5 min The h in Cantonese Yale is not a sound At the start of a syllable the h is the consonant you expect. At the end it is silent — it marks the tone. Beg... EV Eva Chin 31 Aug Two framed panels of classical Chinese text set in vertical columns Chinese Culture 5 min The pattern behind the order of the 64 hexagrams The I Ching's numbered sequence has a strict rule running through it that almost no introduction mentions — an... EV Eva Chin 31 Aug A brass sundial on a white plinth, its gnomon casting a shadow across the dial Chinese Culture 6 min Why your Singapore birth certificate time is an hour off the sun The clock here runs about 65 minutes ahead of the sun, and it ran half an hour closer before 1982. If you are... EV Eva Chin 31 Aug Pink cherry blossom in full flower against a pale blue sky Chinese Culture 5 min Is 2027 a year without spring? It is — the lunar year from 6 February 2027 contains no 立春, and you can check it against a government table... EV Eva Chin 31 Aug A tear-off wall calendar with one date circled in red Chinese Culture 5 min Why most lunar calendar apps get 2033 wrong There is one year in the next century where lunar calendar apps disagree with each other. Ask yours where the... EV Eva Chin 31 Aug A full moon in a dark blue night sky, partly veiled by thin cloud Chinese Culture 5 min Mid-Autumn is two days before the full moon this year The festival lands on 25 September and the moon reaches full on the 27th. The gap is larger than usual, it is... EV Eva Chin 31 Aug Ink-wash drawing of a scholar's table: a corded stack of thread-bound volumes, one open beside them, with a brush resting on an inkstone. Chinese Culture 6 min What Links the 36 Stratagems to the Art of War's 13 Chapters The two are separate books a thousand years apart, so a stratagem filed under a chapter is a reading aid, not... EV Eva Chin 13 Aug A worn mid-century booklet of the Thirty-Six Stratagems, of the kind the collection first surfaced in. Chinese Culture 6 min How Well Attested Are the 36 Stratagems? The Thirty-Six Stratagems are introduced as ancient military history. Reading all thirty-six origin texts end... EV Eva Chin 13 Aug
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