Steve Minutillo :: messy-78 » Chinese Word of the Day

後

steve — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 07:38:00 +0000

後 – Hou4 – Back, Behind, Rear, Afterwards, After, Later

最後 – Zui4 Hou4 – Most Back — Final, Last

That’s right! This is the FINAL “Word of the Day”! Clearly I can’t go on forever, and I figured one thousand three hundred and eighteen is a nice round number to stop at. Or it may have something to do with the new year and all that. Happy 2007, by the way!

Here are a few sites for those of you who need some help breaking the addiction: our old favorite 中文.com (has a word a day feature), Oneaday (a Chinese proverb every day), and Audio Word of the Day (multi-lingual!).

I’ll still be here, of course, posting my normal stuff, possibly a little more often. Some of them might even be Chinese words … just not one every day.

Thanks to everybody who has ever read even a single one of these, and special thanks to everybody who wrote in saying they liked “Word of the Day”. I was always amazed to get any readers at all other than friends and family, and pretty much flabbergasted when anybody actually LIKED it.

再見！ – Zai4 Jian4! – Good Bye!

湄

steve — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 08:27:41 +0000

湄 – Mei2 – Shore, Brink, Edge

曇

steve — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 07:43:34 +0000

曇 – Tan2 – Dark Clouds

瞇

steve — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 06:16:35 +0000

瞇 – Mi1 – To Squint

芴

steve — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 06:57:04 +0000

芴 – Wu4 – Fluorine

衿

steve — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 07:34:54 +0000

衿 – Jin1 – Collar, Lapel

互

steve — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 05:55:44 +0000

互 – Hu4 – Mutual

互惠 – Hu4 Hui4 – Mutual Favor — Reciprocal

跪

steve — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 07:50:30 +0000

跪 – Gui4 – Kneel

蕪

steve — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 04:34:47 +0000

蕪 – Wu2 – Undergrowth

荒蕪 – Huang1 Wu2 – Uncultivated Undergrowth — Wasteland

蕪菁 – Wu2 Jing1 – Undergrowth Leek — Turnip

癰

steve — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 04:03:46 +0000

癰 – Yong1 – Carbuncle