MEotW: Gōngyè‐Dǎng
The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
In the grand scheme of things, how important is technology?
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Monday, March 16, 2026
Sunday, March 08, 2026
MEotW: Yēsū Xīshēng Jìniàn Jùhuì
The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
How can we benefit from avoiding unnecessary ceremony?
Ben Cohen, manager of the Swift team at Apple, speaks of their core design goal of making the Swift programming language ceremony-free.
— Troubadour WW (@troubadourww) June 25, 2022
Chinese characters have lots and lots and lots of ceremony, especially compared to _Pīnyīn_.https://t.co/vPLUThxUYp pic.twitter.com/aDOlKOIbWt
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Sunday, March 01, 2026
MEotW: Zhōngdōng
The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
How can we talk to honest-hearted ones in the Mandarin field about the fighting in the Middle East?
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Wednesday, February 25, 2026
MEotW: Lǎhé
The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
Is a character like “喇” really less ambiguous than a Pīnyīn expression like “lǎ”?
Joshua 2:1 in the Mandarin NWT Study Bible, in the JW Library app
Joshua 2:1 in the PDF for the old printed Pīnyīn NWT Bible
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Sunday, February 15, 2026
MEotW: jìjiào
The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
How do some nitpick about Pīnyīn while ignoring a huge issue about characters?
Screenshot of “jìjiào” in 1 Co. 13:5 (nwtsty, CHS+Pīnyīn WOL)
The problem is not that Pīnyīn is like training wheels, because Pīnyīn is actually like regular wheels. The real problem is that characters are like square wheels!
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Monday, February 09, 2026
MEotW: Mòrì Shízhōng
The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
How can we talk to honest-hearted ones in the Mandarin field about the Doomsday Clock?
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Sunday, February 01, 2026
MEotW: yǔzhòu
The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
How can we get Mandarin-speaking people thinking about whether the universe was designed?
The worldwide Mandarin field is by far the largest language field in the world, and it’s likely that it is the largest language field ever in history.
In addition to the inherent technical difficulty of the subject of creation/evolution, Mandarin field language learners also face the Great Wall of characters.
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