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Do you know the Chinese Zodiac? It is a systematic plan of future action and relates each year to an animal according to a 12-year cycle. There are twelve animals representing the twelve Earthly Branches which can be used to symbolize the year when a person is born. 2014 is the Year of Horse in China. Horse is a kind of important animal which conveys some positive meanings such as talents, strong sprits, and diligence and so on. Let us see how the character \u201c\u9a6c\u201d (m\u01ce) has changed from ancient to modern time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Besides the literal meaning of the animal horse in Chinese, for example, \u201c\u5343\u519b\u4e07\u9a6c\u201d(qi\u0101n j\u016bn w\u00e0n m\u01ce) which means thousands upon thousands of horses and soldiers\u2014a powerful army, \u201c\u9a6c\u201d(m\u01ce) and it also has a metaphor meaning such as tall. There is a phrase called \u201c\u4eba\u9ad8\u9a6c\u5927\u201d(r\u00e9n g\u0101o m\u01ce d\u00e0) which describes some people as big and strong. For example,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u7ea6\u7ff0\u867d\u7136\u4eba\u9ad8\u9a6c\u5927\uff0c\u4f46\u4e0d\u7075\u6d3b\uff0c\u6211\u53ef\u4ee5\u6253\u8d25\u4ed6\u3002 (yu\u0113 h\u00e0n su\u012b r\u00e1n r\u00e9n g\u0101o m\u01ce d\u00e0,d\u00e0n b\u00f9 l\u00edng h\u00fao,w\u01d2 k\u011b y\u01d0 d\u01ce b\u00e0i t\u0101) Though John was big and strong, he was muscle-bound and I could defeat him<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Girls also use \u201c\u767d\u9a6c\u738b\u5b50\u201d(b\u00e1i m\u01ce w\u00e1ng z\u01d0) to express their prince charming, and you can imagine a handsome man riding a white horse comes to you so that is why we use the horse to say the men that girls loved most in Chinese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In addition, there are some stories related with the horses and they become fixed words. A word called \u201c\u9a6c\u9a6c\u864e\u864e\u201d( m\u01ce m\u01ce h\u016b h\u016b) in Chinese comes from an ancient story. In Song Dynasty, a painter who was always careless drew a head of tiger and a body of horse and then made the two connected in one picture to create a strange animal which cannot be known whether it was a horse or a tiger. So \u201c\u9a6c\u9a6c\u864e\u864e\u201d(m\u01ce m\u01ce h\u016b h\u016b) means careless or passable, not so bad ,not so good, just so-so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u4ed6\u5c31\u662f\u6211\u7684\u767d\u9a6c\u738b\u5b50\u3002( t\u0101 ji\u00f9 sh\u00ec w\u01d2 de b\u00e1i m\u01ce w\u00e1ng z\u01d0) He is just my prince charming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u4ed6\u7684\u6c49\u8bed\u8bb2\u5f97\u9a6c\u9a6c\u864e\u864e\u3002\uff08t\u0101 de h\u00e0n y\u01d4 ji\u01ceng de m\u01ce m\u01ce h\u016b h\u016b\uff09 He speaks passable Chinese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Do you know any words about \u9a6c(m\u01ce)? Jsut please leave your message below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Do you know the Chinese Zodiac? It is a systematic plan of future action and relates each year to an animal according to a 12-year cycle. There are twelve animals representing the twelve Earthly Branches which can be used to symbolize the year when a person is born. 2014 is the Year of Horse in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,1],"tags":[122,93,84],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-1499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-expressions","category-learn-mandarin-online","tag-chinese-culture","tag-how-to-use","tag-vocabulary","entry","has-media"],"yoast_head":"\n
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