There are quite a few more Chinese characters than that. The Kangxi dictionary, published in the early 18th century, lists 47 thousand (albeit many of them are not used commonly any more).
The vast majority of Chinese characters do not have meanings which can be as easily derived from the character's parts. However, knowing the meaning and pronunciation of the parts of a character does often make remembering it easier.
Yep, I'd suggest starting by learning all the radicals up to like 5 strokes. It'll give you a good foundation to start learning the rest of the characters, as you'll know the meaning and pronunciation of the radicals and will start to see the connections between the pieces that comprise other characters.
"When you're using ideographs, such as in Chinese, you'll probably have a pretty good idea what a new character means, but not how to pronounce it"
Well, not quite, at least in Chinese. Most characters give you a small hint about the meaning plus a small hint about the pronunciation.
For example, check out this character: http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/rsc/img/chargif/GB256s/stat/c2e8.gif pronounced "ma" (in Mandarin) with a high unchanging pitch (1st tone), it means "mother". It's made of two halves. The left half hints at its meaning; http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/rsc/img/chargif/GB256s/stat/c5ae.gif means "woman" (and is pronounced "nu"). The right half hints at its pronounciation; http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/rsc/img/chargif/GB256s/stat/c2ed.gif is pronounced "ma" with a falling and then rising pitch (and means "horse"). So someone unfamiliar with this character could guess that it's pronounced something like "ma" and has a meaning that's somewhat related to women -- but wouldn't specifically know if it were actually pronounced "la" or "mu", and wouldn't specifically know if it meant "young girl" or "pregnancy" or whatever.
This isn't true for all characters, but IIRC it is for the majority.
I've found Skritter to be a wonderful service for refreshing my Chinese character knowledge. It has a very slick UI that has you draw the character, so you don't forget the stroke order.
If your site is on a shared server, it may be the case that another user of the server got hacked (or is malicious in the first place) and was able to access your files. In this case, it's a very good idea to notify your host that your files have been messed with.
Something you may consider: make a backup of a known-good.htaccess, and set up a cronjob to `diff --brief` the two frequently and email you if they're not the same. I've done this with a list of all the PHP files in my account on a shared server:
7 */4 * * * cd $HOME; find . -name *.php >tmp.phpfiles.txt; if [[ -n "$(diff --brief tmp.phpfiles.txt phpfiles.txt)" ]]; then diff tmp.phpfiles.txt phpfiles.txt | mail -s "new PHP files" YOUR@EMAIL.ADDRESS; fi; rm tmp.phpfiles.txt
Hm, right you are. At the bottom of the page is a notice saying that according to local laws, some results are not shown. Two copies of the image of Tank Man in front of the tanks appear, however the much more graphic images shown for the same search on google.com are not there.
I'll call bullshit. I was born via a C-section and I can handle stress fine, and don't have Asperger's nor ADHD nor asthma.
Also, C-sections aren't always because a woman is "too afraid to go natural". My and my sister's infant skulls were too large to fit through our mother's pelvis.
Also, the roads on the Tour are closed. I wear a helmet when I ride my bicycle because I don't trust the moron drivers of America to not hit me with their vehicles.
Can a site go to Google and say 'please don't index me?' They can add a robots.txt thing, but they'll still be in the index, they just won't get new entries added.
Yep -- a meta tag with name="robots" and content="noindex" will (supposedly) cause Google to drop the page from its index. Once all the pages are gone from the index, robots.txt-blocking the crawlers will stop Google from keeping the URLs around as well.
"If we had sued on every one of the files in Ms. Thomas's share directory, the damages would be astronomical; and we have no interest in pursuing cases like that." --Jennifer Pariser, head of litigation and antipiracy for Sony BMG Music Entertainment
Please God yes, let's have MMS already! The substitute viewmymessage.com service is both a pain in the ass and unreliable. At least implement incoming MMS...
"I guess it's true what they say... a mechanic's car is always the last to get fixed."...That's cause most mechanics are smart enough not to keep worthwhile things in their cars.
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PH isn't. But MM and SH are...
I think the silliest is SI, which is French for "re" in "do re mi..."
Just told NoScript to forbid fsdn.com. Incredibly annoying problem solved.
Goddamnit I hate this poor excuse for a holiday.
There are quite a few more Chinese characters than that. The Kangxi dictionary, published in the early 18th century, lists 47 thousand (albeit many of them are not used commonly any more).
The vast majority of Chinese characters do not have meanings which can be as easily derived from the character's parts. However, knowing the meaning and pronunciation of the parts of a character does often make remembering it easier.
Yep, I'd suggest starting by learning all the radicals up to like 5 strokes. It'll give you a good foundation to start learning the rest of the characters, as you'll know the meaning and pronunciation of the radicals and will start to see the connections between the pieces that comprise other characters.
Well, not quite, at least in Chinese. Most characters give you a small hint about the meaning plus a small hint about the pronunciation.
For example, check out this character: http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/rsc/img/chargif/GB256s/stat/c2e8.gif pronounced "ma" (in Mandarin) with a high unchanging pitch (1st tone), it means "mother". It's made of two halves. The left half hints at its meaning; http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/rsc/img/chargif/GB256s/stat/c5ae.gif means "woman" (and is pronounced "nu"). The right half hints at its pronounciation; http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/rsc/img/chargif/GB256s/stat/c2ed.gif is pronounced "ma" with a falling and then rising pitch (and means "horse"). So someone unfamiliar with this character could guess that it's pronounced something like "ma" and has a meaning that's somewhat related to women -- but wouldn't specifically know if it were actually pronounced "la" or "mu", and wouldn't specifically know if it meant "young girl" or "pregnancy" or whatever.
This isn't true for all characters, but IIRC it is for the majority.
I've found Skritter to be a wonderful service for refreshing my Chinese character knowledge. It has a very slick UI that has you draw the character, so you don't forget the stroke order.
Thirded
Agreed, Dvorak seriously cuts down on the number of people who ask to use my computer...kinda nice. And it's comfy.
If your site is on a shared server, it may be the case that another user of the server got hacked (or is malicious in the first place) and was able to access your files. In this case, it's a very good idea to notify your host that your files have been messed with.
Something you may consider: make a backup of a known-good .htaccess, and set up a cronjob to `diff --brief` the two frequently and email you if they're not the same. I've done this with a list of all the PHP files in my account on a shared server:
7 */4 * * * cd $HOME; find . -name *.php >tmp.phpfiles.txt; if [[ -n "$(diff --brief tmp.phpfiles.txt phpfiles.txt)" ]]; then diff tmp.phpfiles.txt phpfiles.txt | mail -s "new PHP files" YOUR@EMAIL.ADDRESS; fi; rm tmp.phpfiles.txt
"Majia" can mean "sockpuppet" in Mandarin.
dang3zheng4 zong3shi4 dui4 de.
Hm, right you are. At the bottom of the page is a notice saying that according to local laws, some results are not shown. Two copies of the image of Tank Man in front of the tanks appear, however the much more graphic images shown for the same search on google.com are not there.
Indeed it would:
google images: [liusishijian]
I'll call bullshit. I was born via a C-section and I can handle stress fine, and don't have Asperger's nor ADHD nor asthma.
Also, C-sections aren't always because a woman is "too afraid to go natural". My and my sister's infant skulls were too large to fit through our mother's pelvis.
Also, the roads on the Tour are closed. I wear a helmet when I ride my bicycle because I don't trust the moron drivers of America to not hit me with their vehicles.
Guess I'll spending my day re-implementing Yahoo Pipes on my own server.
Can a site go to Google and say 'please don't index me?' They can add a robots.txt thing, but they'll still be in the index, they just won't get new entries added.
Yep -- a meta tag with name="robots" and content="noindex" will (supposedly) cause Google to drop the page from its index. Once all the pages are gone from the index, robots.txt-blocking the crawlers will stop Google from keeping the URLs around as well.
"If we had sued on every one of the files in Ms. Thomas's share directory, the damages would be astronomical; and we have no interest in pursuing cases like that." --Jennifer Pariser, head of litigation and antipiracy for Sony BMG Music Entertainment
Trying to install some old version of RHEL, I kept getting this one... Seems to me like the computer's reassuring itself.
"I'm just an avid racing sim gamer."
No, pay attention. Now you're an avid racing sim Internet sport participant.
Please God yes, let's have MMS already! The substitute viewmymessage.com service is both a pain in the ass and unreliable. At least implement incoming MMS...
Amen.
That's a shame, they obviously shoulda called it Mailzilla.
"I guess it's true what they say ... a mechanic's car is always the last to get fixed." ...That's cause most mechanics are smart enough not to keep worthwhile things in their cars.