Monday, June 13, 2022

MEotW: qiāngjī àn

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

Why might it be that in Mandarin, “àn” is used to mean such varied things as “desk”, “case (of law/etc.)”, “incident”, “file”, and “plan”?


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