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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)

72 naming characters, Kangxi strokes, checked meanings

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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)

16 traditional colours · each meaning cited · approximate hex codes

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

19 auspicious symbols · meanings · classical origins · puns in Mandarin and Cantonese

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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 · 40 terms · 2000s-2020s

Chinese Language & Script →
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)

Type a number: how it reads in Mandarin and Cantonese, and what it sounds like

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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)

47 classic dim sum · Jyutping · menu spellings · category

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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 + currency → amounts with no 4, and the notes for each

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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 · minimum fan and cap · half or full spicy · who pays

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

35 traditional 春联 by 7 themes · 上下联 + 横批 · the banner direction sets the sides · print PDF

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

唐诗三百首 40 首 · 李白 杜甫 王维 白居易 · 英文标题与说明

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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

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A porcelain vase painted with carp swimming among waves, against a plain grey background. Home & Living 6 min Most Chinese rebus puns the Palace Museum records also work in Cantonese A Chinese rebus motif stands for a word by sound, as a bat painted for fortune does. We checked the 21 charact... EV Eva Chin 4 Nov Clusters of small red lanterns with tassels hanging as New Year decorations. Chinese Culture 6 min Chinese New Year greetings as Cantonese, Hokkien and Mandarin dictionaries record them 恭喜發財 is a four-character New Year wish read differently in Mandarin and Cantonese, and Taiwan's Hokkien di... EV Eva Chin 4 Nov Painted hanging scrolls lining the walls of a dim gallery. Home & Living 6 min Most Chinese proverbs we could read in their source books are worded differently there A Chinese proverb is a short everyday saying, and a few began as lines in classical books such as the Analects... EV Eva Chin 4 Nov Tall residential towers in Hong Kong rising against a blue sky with white clouds. Home & Living 6 min Hong Kong's floor-numbering code accepts a short list of skipped numbers and rules out the rest Many Hong Kong towers have no floor labelled 4, 13 or 14, because the numbers are left out while the floors st... AM Amelia Wong 4 Nov A row of glowing red lanterns hanging under tiled eaves in front of a red wall with a lattice window. Chinese Culture 6 min Chinese calendar stems and branches disagree on the month far more than on the year Stems and branches are the sixty paired names the Chinese calendar gives to years, months, days and hours, and... EV Eva Chin 3 Nov A hand in a red sleeve writing Chinese characters with a brush on a practice sheet, beside a tray of inkstones and brushes. Chinese Culture 6 min Many Chinese tongue twisters lose their sound contrast when read in Cantonese A Chinese tongue twister is built from sounds that are easy to confuse, but the confusion belongs to one langu... EV Eva Chin 3 Nov Red paper couplets brushed with Chinese characters, hanging side by side Chinese Culture 5 min The same Chinese number changes its characters with its job Chinese numbers change form with their use: a count, a year and a money amount are written differently, and of... EV Eva Chin 2 Nov A thin crescent moon against a dark sky Science 5 min Lunar New Year's Day 2027 comes a day later in Seoul than in Singapore The new moon that opens 2027's lunar year falls at 23:56 on 6 February in Singapore and 00:56 on the 7th in Se... NA Nadia Rahim 1 Nov A brass sundial standing on an old printed map Chinese Culture 6 min How Chinese almanacs decide which hours are yellow and which are black Chinese almanacs split the day into twelve two-hour blocks and label each one yellow path or black path by the... EV Eva Chin 18 Oct A bronze vessel cast with the reign mark 大清嘉慶年造, made in the Jiaqing era of the Qing Statistics 6 min Chinese reign era names were reused by rival courts, and most Ming and Qing emperors began theirs at New Year Chinese emperors named their years by era names, and a date was written as the era plus a year count. Catalogu... NA Nadia Rahim 16 Oct Rows of Chinese characters carved into a weathered stone column Chinese Culture 5 min Most Chinese characters share their four-corner code with other characters The four-corner code turns the stroke shapes at a Chinese character's corners into digits, a lookup method Wan... EV Eva Chin 16 Oct A temple hall with a curved red-tiled roof, carved dragons on the ridge and red lanterns at the doors Home & Living 6 min Over a third of a Hokkien dictionary's syllables change between Pe̍h-ōe-jī and Tâi-lô Pe̍h-ōe-jī (POJ) and Tâi-lô are two ways of writing Hokkien in Latin letters, and Tâi-lô is the scheme Taiwan'... EV Eva Chin 15 Oct A Hong Kong road marking reading LOOK LEFT in English above 望左 in Chinese Home & Living 6 min Mainland and Taiwan telegraph codebooks nearly always give a Hong Kong ID card character the same code below 8000 The four-digit groups under a Chinese name on a Hong Kong identity card are telegraph codes, which the Immigra... EV Eva Chin 15 Oct Several generations of one family standing together outdoors around a baby Home & Living 6 min Taiwan's marriage law extends to second cousins, and other ways cousins are counted A cousin's degree and removal come from counting the generations from each person up to the ancestor they shar... EV Eva Chin 7 Oct A red Chinese knot with a long tassel hanging from a flowering branch Home & Living 6 min Chinese knots are far older than the name a 1981 Taipei book made common in Taiwan The name Chinese knot (中國結) became common in Taiwan after a 1981 Taipei book, according to the Taipei City... AM Amelia Wong 3 Oct A pair of bookmarks printed with lines of Chinese verse in calligraphy Home & Living 6 min Mandarin rhymes share a Pingshui rhyme group about half the time Two level-tone characters that rhyme exactly in Putonghua share a 平水韵 group only about half the time, by ou... EV Eva Chin 3 Oct Red lanterns strung above a pedestrian street lined with Chinese shopfronts Home & Living 6 min Xiehouyu are mostly metaphors, and many Mandarin puns miss in Cantonese 外甥打燈籠──照舅 is a pun in Mandarin and not in Cantonese. Taiwan's Ministry of Education dictionary lists 30... EV Eva Chin 3 Oct Incense sticks smouldering in bronze burners at a Chinese temple Chinese Culture 4 min The temple's own grades for Wong Tai Sin's 100 fortune sticks Sik Sik Yuen publishes all 100 Wong Tai Sin fortune sticks with their verses and grades. How the five grades d... EV Eva Chin 3 Oct A page of a printed Chinese book set in vertical columns of characters Home & Living 5 min Classical Chinese particles, counted in the Analects and Mencius About a quarter of the Analects and Mencius is 23 small grammatical words. How often 之, 也, 矣, 焉 and 乎 app... EV Eva Chin 3 Oct Red envelopes printed with gold characters spread on a wooden table Finance 6 min The notes that can go in an ang bao for Lunar New Year 2027 Lunar New Year 2027 falls on 6 February. Which notes you can get for an ang bao, lai see or 紅包 in Singapore,... SA Sarah Chew 1 Oct Two red diamond-shaped 福 signs pasted upright on a pair of metal doors Chinese Culture 6 min How to tell the upper line of a Spring Festival couplet from the lower How to tell the upper line of a spring couplet (春联, 春聯) from the lower, which side each goes on, why the M... EV Eva Chin 1 Oct A hand moving a piece on a wooden Chinese chess board Home & Living 6 min Writing a xiangqi move in Chinese, WXF and ICCS notation How Chinese chess (象棋) moves such as 炮二平五 are written, why Red and Black number the files differently, w... EV Eva Chin 1 Oct A hand holding a smartphone open to a chat thread in dim evening light Consumer Tech 6 min How Chinese internet slang is made, and what the annual word lists keep How Chinese internet slang is built, from yyds and 520 to 内卷 and 躺平, and what China's three annual 网络流... KE Kenji Tanaka 30 Sep Incense coils hang above rows of burning joss sticks at a temple altar while a man tends the offerings Chinese Culture 7 min Fan Tai Sui 2027 and why the lists of signs disagree Four of five counting schemes name the same four animals for 犯太岁 in the 2027 Goat year: the Goat, Ox, Dog a... EV Eva Chin 30 Sep
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