Sunday, January 25, 2026

MEotW: hélí

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

How can the beaver’s impressive industriousness and construction ability help us to reach the hearts of people in the Mandarin field?


Screenshot of article “The Beaver’s Construction Ability” on jw.org

A screenshot of the article “The Beaver’s Construction Ability” on jw.org


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Sunday, January 18, 2026

MEotW: chénggōng

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

Is “just” learning Chinese characters “the hard way” the key to success in the Mandarin field?


“To Jehovah, for whom ‘a thousand years is as one day’, Chinese civilization has only been around for a few days.… “…we should boast in Jehovah, not in needlessly and self-indulgently complex knowledge relating to a mere worldly human culture” troubadourworks.com/tiandi/meotw... #MEotW #PīnyīnPlus

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The Great Wall of China

Does Jehovah see Chinese characters as a successful writing system? Or does he see characters as a Great Wall obstructing his vital preaching and teaching work in the worldwide Mandarin field?


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Sunday, January 11, 2026

MEotW: bìyào

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

Are Chinese characters really indispensable? Is it really true that the Chinese languages cannot be written alphabetically?


汉字 / 漢字? Pīnyīn?


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Sunday, January 04, 2026

MEotW: pútao

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

Does each Chinese character really represent a one-syllable word?


A bunch of grapes hanging on a vine

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