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Sunday, August 02, 2026

MEotW: jǐngrán‐yǒuxù

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

In contrast to the haphazardly evolved Chinese characters, how is Pīnyīn well-designed, neat, and orderly, like the manufacturing processes inside our cells?


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Sunday, June 28, 2026

MEotW: chuàngzào

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

What can help us talk to Mandarin-speaking people about whether God used evolution to create living things?


“_Chuàngzào_” in Genesis 1:27 (NWT (nwtsty), WOL CHS+Pinyin), with “_zào_” in _Héhé Běn_

To represent how God caused humans to come into existence, the Mandarin New World Translation Bible uses “chuàngzào”, and the Héhé Běn (Union Version Chinese Bible) uses “zào”. Both these expressions contain the sense of “made, created”, and perhaps “built”.


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Sunday, June 14, 2026

MEotW: xúnhuán

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

How can we talk in Mandarin about the well-designed natural cycles that make life possible on earth?


Map showing Beijing’s ring roads

A map showing Beijing’s ring roads (source)


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Sunday, April 12, 2026

MEotW: záluàn‐wú‐zhāng

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

While the manufacturing processes inside our cells are not haphazard, how is the design of Chinese characters haphazard?


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Monday, March 30, 2026

MEotW: yì‐zhī‐bàn‐jiě

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

What understanding can help us Mandarin field language learners to move beyond “knowing just enough to be dangerous”?


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Sunday, November 30, 2025

MEotW: fǎn’ér

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

When might it be good to be “contrarian” in the Mandarin field?


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Sunday, November 16, 2025

MEotW: tiān‐yī‐wúfèng

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

What can help us to reintroduce Mandarin-speaking Chinese people to the Supreme Sovereign of the universe?


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Sunday, November 09, 2025

MEotW: hé‐zhànzhēng

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

How can we introduce to Mandarin-speaking people the subject of what the Bible says about nuclear war?


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Sunday, October 05, 2025

MEotW: ménwèi

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

How can we talk to Mandarin-speaking people, many of whom believe in evolution, about the “security guards” built into our cells?


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Sunday, August 24, 2025

MEotW: qiǎohé

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

What can we say to Mandarin-speaking people about the so-called “coincidences” that allow life to exist on earth?


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Sunday, July 20, 2025

MEotW: Zàowù‐Zhǔ

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

Why is it especially important to talk to people in the Mandarin field about the evidence showing that the Creator exists?


Chart: Languages by First-Language Speakers—2019

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.



The Great Wall of China

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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Saturday, July 12, 2025

MEotW: xiāngduì

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

In the Mandarin field, what can we say to those who believe that living things evolved from relatively less complex living things?


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Sunday, June 15, 2025

MEotW: shēngjī‐bóbó

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

In the Mandarin field, how can we use a Chinese idiom to help show that the earth was created?



A computer-animated visualization of how tiny molecular machines inside our cells copy DNA


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Sunday, April 06, 2025

MEotW: jiéjīng

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

In the Mandarin field, how can a Mandarin word about crystals help us talk about the Creator?


Closeup of a clockwork mechanism



Screenshot of Pinocchio from the trailer for the film Pinocchio (1940).

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Sunday, March 09, 2025

MEotW: cōnghuì

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

In the Mandarin field, how can we talk about Jehovah being our intelligent Creator, and why should we do so?



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Saturday, February 01, 2025

MEotW: xiétiáo

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

How can we talk to Mandarin-speaking people about how well-coordinated the molecular machines inside our cells are?


Closeup of a clockwork mechanism



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Sunday, January 05, 2025

MEotW: yījù

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

Why should we Mandarin field language learners not hesitate to discuss the technically challenging subject of creation with Mandarin-speaking people?


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Sunday, November 17, 2024

MEotW: cuòzōng‐fùzá

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

How can we help Mandarin-speaking people to more deeply appreciate just how complex our bodies’ cells are?


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Sunday, October 27, 2024

MEotW: qūshǐ

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

What can help us face the challenge of actually talking with people in Mandarin about the evidence that life was created?


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Friday, September 20, 2024

MEotW: miǎománg

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

How does the Mandarin expression “_miǎománg_” illustrate how remote the possibility is that life originated by chance?


NASA photo of the Pacific Ocean, as seen from space

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