Happy Chinese New Year!

niuc · Post by **niuc** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 5:24 pm

Wish You All Happiness In This Rooster Year.

Kiong1 Ho7 Sin1 Hi2
Gong1 He4 Xin1 Xi3

Happy Chinese New Year!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 8:51 am

Hi Niuc,

Thanks for the best wishes. I wish you and the other readers of the Forum a very Happy New Year too.

Sim.

qrasy · Post by **qrasy** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 3:13 pm

恭賀新禧!

Yung · Post by **Yung** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 11:29 am

Happy New Year, Happy New Year...

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 1:25 am

Niuc and tak-ke,

Hoo lin sin-chiaN hoaN-hi, koh u chit-e ho ni-thang！

hong · Post by **hong** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 4:32 am

You can see the system didn't not ask people to fill in the username like the old one,who is sending above post?
Can it be like the old one that can always remember our username in a same computer without typing it again?

SL De · Post by **SL De** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 3:28 am

Niuc, hong and everybody,

Hoo lin sin-chiaN hoaN-hi, koh u chit-e ho ni-tang！
乎爾新正歡喜，佫有禃兮好年冬！

Casey · Post by **Casey** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 4:16 am

Is it

1. 乎 or 互? (互 is 'to give', right?)
2. 尔 or 恁? (尔 seems to be singular, not plural)

SL De · Post by **SL De** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 3:36 pm

乎 (hoo) means 1. prayer 2. wish 3. to give.
When it uses in the meaning of "to give", we can write 乎 (hoo) or 互 (hoo).

1. 爾 means you in "plural" in the literatures of "koo-bun 古文, the Ancient writing system".
2. 爾 means you in "singular" in the literatures of "bun-gien bun 文言文, the Literatures-language writing system".

When the chinese characters applied in the "koo-bun 古文" or "bun-gien bun 文言文", there had some meanings that were different between them.

尔 is a simplified character of the traditional character 爾, and 恁 may be a borrowed sound character (chio-im-li 借音字).

The Mandarin language used イ＋尔 = 你 to mean you. I guess that this character 你 is a dialect character of Mandarin, its original character is 汝.

Casey · Post by **Casey** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 10:54 am

SL De
Thank you for the explanations.
However, I still have reservations about 乎 as 'to give'. In fact, the ancient Han character for hoo7, 'to give', is 与, (the Fan-ti style). (My Chinese input only writes simplified characters, sorry about this).

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