To bring across an idea non-existent in the target language is a perennial challenge to the translator. Nevertheless, translating an item...

'Rolling' in the sense of 'progressive / subject to periodic review', for example, 'rolling programme', 'rolling policy', and 'rolling...

Introducing themselves on social media platforms or in newspapers, some people writing in Chinese often start with 'we are a group of...

AVOID UNNECESSARY NEOLOGISM An electronic notice has been displayed on motorways in Hong Kong in recent weeks: 'No Over-height Crane'....

Translation has ceased to be a subject in secondary schools in Hong Kong for decades. It is now usually one of the undergraduate...

In Hong Kong, the toilets specially designed for wheelchair users had been known as ‘disabled toilets’ for a long time. The Chinese...

The recent death of Fou Ts'ong reminds me of the letters from his father, which culminated in a collection entitled Fu Lei jia shu 傅雷家書...

'Shu 術’, instead of skills, in fact means ‘road in a state (yi zhong dao ye 邑中道也)’, according to Key to Chinese Characters (Shuowen jiezi...

In Chinese-speaking communities, 湯 means 'soup'. In Japanese, however, its meaning is 'hot water'. As a matter of fact, it finds its...

One who has been to Japan may probably have seen 氷, which is a character of the Kanji, the set of ideographs based on Chinese characters...

'Quarantine' has made its way to become the Word of the Year 2020 of Cambridge Dictionary. Quarantine measures have been put in place in...