Comments on: 上 and 下 in Chinese: Beyond the Basic “Up” and “Down” https://www.digmandarin.com/pursue-he-commons-in-the-words-shang-and-xia.html Thu, 31 Aug 2023 05:40:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.7 By: Dig Mandarin https://www.digmandarin.com/pursue-he-commons-in-the-words-shang-and-xia.html#comment-20066 Sat, 02 Apr 2022 08:05:08 +0000 http://www.digmandarin.com/?p=1209#comment-20066 In reply to Tony.

Yes, it also can be 你去哪儿了

]]> By: Tony https://www.digmandarin.com/pursue-he-commons-in-the-words-shang-and-xia.html#comment-20062 Fri, 01 Apr 2022 15:45:46 +0000 http://www.digmandarin.com/?p=1209#comment-20062 Hi Michael, thanks for the great explanation. Could I please check of these characters 你哪去儿了 could also be written as: 你去哪儿了?

]]> By: Michael Ma https://www.digmandarin.com/pursue-he-commons-in-the-words-shang-and-xia.html#comment-82 Fri, 06 Dec 2013 22:38:00 +0000 http://www.digmandarin.com/?p=1209#comment-82 In reply to Edward Hopkins.

No,my friend. ‘Cause we will always make the chess down on the bord,.In the phrase “下棋’，“下”refers to “touch down,make fall down”.Just like we play the Chinese Chess（象棋） or Chinese WeiQi（围棋），we wil always first pick up the Chess Piece then touch down it in some place. So we say “下棋”，not “上棋”.The “下”still remains the direction points. Hope this could help you understand. If you still confuse about them, please tell me.

]]> By: Edward Hopkins https://www.digmandarin.com/pursue-he-commons-in-the-words-shang-and-xia.html#comment-81 Fri, 06 Dec 2013 17:58:00 +0000 http://www.digmandarin.com/?p=1209#comment-81 If my chess-playing gets better and better, then can I say, “上棋”?

]]> By: Michael Ma https://www.digmandarin.com/pursue-he-commons-in-the-words-shang-and-xia.html#comment-80 Fri, 06 Dec 2013 14:10:00 +0000 http://www.digmandarin.com/?p=1209#comment-80 In reply to Gennario Veltaine.

Thanks！Hope you will keep following this website!

]]> By: Michael Ma https://www.digmandarin.com/pursue-he-commons-in-the-words-shang-and-xia.html#comment-79 Fri, 06 Dec 2013 14:09:00 +0000 http://www.digmandarin.com/?p=1209#comment-79 In reply to David Everett Hinz.

Thanks！

]]> By: David Everett Hinz https://www.digmandarin.com/pursue-he-commons-in-the-words-shang-and-xia.html#comment-76 Fri, 06 Dec 2013 02:21:00 +0000 http://www.digmandarin.com/?p=1209#comment-76 Good Job.

]]> By: Gennario Veltaine https://www.digmandarin.com/pursue-he-commons-in-the-words-shang-and-xia.html#comment-74 Thu, 05 Dec 2013 04:35:00 +0000 http://www.digmandarin.com/?p=1209#comment-74 this is super awesome, thanks for sharing!

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