Which Chinese character would you choose to sum up the past year?
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2. 中国人越来越依赖用电脑键盘输入汉字。
The Chinese people are increasingly depending on computer keyboards to input Chinese characters.
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3. 有趣的是，汉字是由图画和符号演变而来的。
It is interesting that Chinese characters evolve from pictures and signs.
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4. 真正优雅的筷子可能是带有汉字的金银制的。
Truly elegant chopsticks might be made of gold and silver with Chinese characters.
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5. 兰亭书法俱乐部的成员们正在用毛笔书写汉字。
The members of Lanting Calligraphy Club are writing Chinese characters with traditional brushes.
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6. 许多人甚至记不住日常生活中使用的1万个汉字。
Many people can't even remember the 10,000 characters they used in daily life without electronic help.
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7. 人们要记住大约600个汉字，才能做到最基本的读写。
People have to memorize about 600 characters before they can do even basic reading and writing.
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8. 汉语与西方语言的不同之处在于它使用的汉字会代表思想、物体或行为。
The Chinese language differs from Western languages in that it uses characters which stand for ideas, objects or deeds.
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9. 如果你认为你的汉语足够好，你可以参加一个叫《中国汉字听写大会》的比赛。
If you think your Chinese is good enough, you can take part in the competition called Chinese Characters Dictation Competition.
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10. 中国创造的五个顽皮的角色，每一个都代表一个汉字，拼出就是“北京欢迎你”。
Each of the five playful characters created by the Chinese represents a character in the Chinese language that together spell out "Beijing welcomes you".
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11. 汉语与西方语言的不同之处在于，汉语不使用字母表，而是使用代表思想、物体或行为的汉字。
The Chinese language differs from Western languages in that, instead of an alphabet, it uses characters which stand for ideas, objects or deeds.
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12. 中国运动服装品牌李宁在9月20日的纽约时装周上展示了他们新设计的带有中国汉字的毛衣和夹克。
Chinese sportswear brand Li Ning was at the New York Fashion Week on September, 20. They showed their new designs sweaters and jackets with Chinese characters.
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13. 许多现代汉字与2000年前的汉字相似。
Many modern Chinese characters are similar to those from 2,000 years ago.
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14. 中国政府简化了许多汉字，因此更多的人可以学习认识（汉字）。
The Chinese government simplified many characters so that more people could learn to read.
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15. 西尔斯不得不学习汉字。
Sears had to study Chinese characters.
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16. 这是汉字字源网站的开始。
That is the beginning of the Chinese Etymology website.
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17. 她还教授了小篆和现代汉字的区别。
She also taught the differences between Xiaozhuan and the modern Chinese character.
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18. 他在网站上发布了96000多个古汉字。
He has put more than 96,000 ancient Chinese characters onto the website.
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19. 他以汉字激光照排系统而闻名。
He is famous for the Chinese Language Laser typesetting.
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20. 传统的红包通常饰有金色的汉字，比如福和富。
Traditional red pockets are often decorated with gold Chinese characters, such as happiness and wealth.
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21. 我最喜欢的一件 T 恤上有汉字。
One of my favorite T-shirts has the Chinese characters on it.
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22. 几个世纪以来，人们一直在努力改变汉字。
People have made efforts to change Chinese characters over the centuries.
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23. 1994年，理查德·西尔斯决定将古汉字发布到网上。
In 1994, Richard Sears decided to put the ancient Chinese characters online.
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24. 大约在公元前200年，汉字开始标准化。
Around 200 BC, Chinese characters became standardized.
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25. 这节课讲的是一种古代的汉字字体，叫做 ”小篆”。
The lesson was about an ancient Chinese character called Xiaozhuan.
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26. 西尔斯说：“我在研究每个汉字时，都想了解中国古人的想法。”
"When I study each character, I wonder what the ancient Chinese thought, " said Sears.
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27. 经过上千次的练习，徐终于能在上小学前写出500个汉字了。
Xu finally could write 500 Chinese characters before becoming a primary school student, after practising thousands of times.
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28. 以“8”为例，数字“8”的中文发音与汉字“发[fɑː]”的发音几乎相同，意味着发财。
Take "8" for example, the Chinese pronunciation of the number "8" has almost the same sound as that of the Chinese character "发[fa:]", which means making a fortune.
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29. 西尔斯笑着说：“我收到了几千封电子邮件，有几百万人访问了我，人们开始称我为‘汉字叔叔’。”
I got a few thousand emails, and a few million visitors and people started calling me 'Uncle Hanzi', " Sears said with a smile.
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30. 西尔斯笑着说：“我收到了几千封电子邮件，有几百万人访问了我，人们开始称我为‘汉字叔叔’。”
I got a few thousand emails, and a few million visitors and people started calling me 'Uncle Hanzi', " Sears said with a smile.
