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Sunday, August 23, 2026

MEotW: wēixíng “jīqì”

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

What can we tell Mandarin-speaking people in the field about the tiny machines inside our cells?



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


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Sunday, May 31, 2026

MEotW: réngōng zhìnéng

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

What could we say to people in Mandarin about artificial intelligence (AI)?


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Sunday, April 19, 2026

MEotW: jǐngjǐng‐yǒu‐tiáo

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

How can we say in Mandarin that the galaxies are distributed according to a pattern?


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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?


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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Sunday, October 12, 2025

MEotW: qià‐dào‐hǎochu

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

What can we say to Mandarin-speaking people about how fine-tuned the universe is to support life?


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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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Sunday, March 23, 2025

MEotW: xīngqiú

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

What can we say to Mandarin-speaking people about why the earth is unique?


Earthrise - This iconic picture shows Earth peeking out from beyond the lunar surface as the first crewed spacecraft circumnavigated the Moon.

Earthrise
This iconic picture shows Earth peeking out from beyond the lunar surface as the first crewed spacecraft circumnavigated the Moon.


Pale Blue Dot - This narrow-angle color image of the Earth, taken from a distance of more than 4 billion miles (6.4 billion km) from Earth,  is a part of the first ever “portrait” of the solar system taken by Voyager 1 (Earth is the blueish-white speck almost halfway up the rightmost band of light.)

Pale Blue Dot
This narrow-angle color image of the Earth, taken from a distance of more than 4 billion miles (6.4 billion km) from Earth, is a part of the first ever “portrait” of the solar system taken by the Voyager 1 space probe. (Earth is the blueish-white speck almost halfway up the rightmost band of light.)


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Saturday, May 11, 2024

MEotW: shìwēi kàngyì

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

What connection is there between the Mandarin expressions for “demonstrating (as a protest)” and “Revelation”?


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Friday, February 16, 2024

MEotW: fēnzǐ jùhé‐tǐ

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

What convinced one Taiwanese microbiologist that life must have been created?



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


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Wednesday, January 31, 2024

MEotW: chuán

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

Why might it be that current versions of the Insight book no longer have a section about the Chinese character “船 (ship)”?


P. 328 of Vol. 1 of the first printing of the _Insight_ book (1988), with a section about “船”


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Sunday, November 19, 2023

MEotW: Yànwén

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

Is Pīnyīn the Hangul of Mandarin?


The Korean text “Joseongeul” and “Hangeul,” written in Hangul, the native Korean script

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The Korean text “Joseongeul” and “Hangeul,” written in Hangul, the native Korean script. [source]


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Wednesday, August 30, 2023

MEotW: piānjiàn

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

Why is it especially important for us in the Mandarin field to put prejudice behind us?


Screenshot of spreadsheet table and chart showing the estimated numbers of Chinese people inside & outside China in 2023


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Thursday, August 17, 2023

MEotW: wùzhǒng

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

How can we be qualified to speak in Mandarin about such potentially technical subjects as evolution and creation?


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Wednesday, May 24, 2023

MEotW: réngōng zhìnéng

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

In the Mandarin field, how might we talk about artificial intelligence in Mandarin?


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Monday, February 02, 2009

Official Chinese Audio Files Now Available for Download

Starting on Feb. 1, 2009, Mandarin MP3 and AAC audio files, playable on iPods and similar devices, began to be available for download from the Society’s http://www.jw.org/ web site. The Chinese file download pages, one in Simplified characters (汉语) and one in Traditional characters (漢語), can be selected using the Language dropdown box in the upper right corner of the page. Both these download pages contain links to download Mandarin audio files—no Cantonese files are in evidence at this time.


Currently, Mandarin audio files are available for recent issues of the Watchtower and Awake! magazines, and for the J’s Day and Bible Teach books.