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The incompetent boat pilot blames the river for his shortcomings
不會撐船賴河灣 literally translates as: [One who] cannot steer the boat blames the bends in the river.
Figuratively, this means: One who is incompetent always tries to shift the blame elsewhere.
This is similar to the English idiom, “a poor workman/craftsman blames his tools.”
Allah / God of Islam
真主 is how Chinese Muslims refer to God (it literally means “True Master”).
Oddly, in China, two different names for God have emerged. Even though Muslims, Christians, and Jews all worship the same God of Abraham.
In Arabic, the word Allah is just the Arabic way to say, God. Arab Christians pray to Allah, just like Arab Muslims. Somehow in China, the title of God diverged.
If you are curious, there are millions of Muslims throughout China but especially in the northwest portion of China known as Xinjiang. Here you will find descendants of Turkmen, Persian, Arab, and other ethnicities. Some are mixed with Han-Chinese blood; others appear to be pure Turkmen. Many have fair complexions, green eyes, and light hair but all are citizens of China. A visit to Xinjiang will shift your paradigm and blow away all of your stereotypes about what it means to be Chinese.
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Wind of Change
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| Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
委 see styles |
wěi wei3 wei i い |
to entrust; to cast aside; to shift (blame etc); to accumulate; roundabout; winding; dejected; listless; committee member; council; end; actually; certainly (suffix noun) (abbreviation) (See 委員会) committee; commission; board; panel; (female given name) Tomo To throw down, depute; really; crooked; the end. |
嫁 see styles |
jià jia4 chia yome よめ |
(of a woman) to marry; to marry off a daughter; to shift (blame etc) (1) wife; bride; (2) (one's) daughter-in-law |
挪 see styles |
nuó nuo2 no |
to shift; to move |
搬 see styles |
bān ban1 pan |
to move (i.e. relocate oneself); to move (something relatively heavy or bulky); to shift; to copy indiscriminately |
班 see styles |
bān ban1 pan han はん |
team; class; grade; (military) squad; work shift; CL:個|个[ge4]; classifier for groups of people and scheduled transport vehicles (n,n-suf) (1) (also read ぱん as a suffix) group; party; team; (n,n-suf) (2) {mil} squad; section A class, rank, band; translit. pan. |
移 see styles |
yí yi2 i wataru わたる |
to move; to shift; to change; to alter; to remove (male given name) Wataru To transplant, transpose, transmit, convey, remove. |
迻 see styles |
yí yi2 i |
to shift; to transfer |
遷 迁 see styles |
qiān qian1 ch`ien chien sen せん |
to move; to shift; to change (a position or location etc); to promote (given name) Sen To move, remove, improve, promote, dismiss. |
交代 see styles |
jiāo dài jiao1 dai4 chiao tai kyōtai こうたい |
to transfer (duties to sb else); to give instructions; to tell (sb to do something); to explain; to give an account; to brief; to confess; to account for oneself; (jocular) to come to a bad end (noun/participle) alternation; change; relief; relay; shift; substitution (sports, etc.); taking turns 交付 To hand over, entrust to. |
交替 see styles |
jiāo tì jiao1 ti4 chiao t`i chiao ti koutai / kotai こうたい |
to replace; alternately; in turn (noun/participle) alternation; change; relief; relay; shift; substitution (sports, etc.); taking turns |
倒休 see styles |
dǎo xiū dao3 xiu1 tao hsiu |
to shift holidays, taking a weekday off |
倒手 see styles |
dǎo shǒu dao3 shou3 tao shou |
to shift from one hand to the other; to change hands (of merchandise) |
倒騰 倒腾 see styles |
dǎo teng dao3 teng5 tao t`eng tao teng |
to move; to shift; to exchange; to buy and sell; peddling |
值班 see styles |
zhí bān zhi2 ban1 chih pan |
to work a shift; on duty |
偏移 see styles |
piān yí pian1 yi2 p`ien i pien i heni へんい |
displacement; deviation; offset (See 赤方偏移,ドップラー偏移) shift (e.g. redshift) |
出番 see styles |
deban でばん |
(1) (See 順番) one's turn; one's shift; (2) one's turn on stage; screen time; screentime |
動く see styles |
ugoku うごく |
(v5k,vi) (1) to move; to stir; to shift; to shake; to swing; (v5k,vi) (2) to operate; to run; to go; to work; (v5k,vi) (3) to make a move; to take action; to act; to go into action; (v5k,vi) (4) to be touched; to be influenced; (v5k,vi) (5) (sometimes prenom. as 動かぬ, 動かない, etc. to mean "certain") to change; to vary; to fluctuate; to waver; (v5k,vi) (6) to be transferred |
卸責 卸责 see styles |
xiè zé xie4 ze2 hsieh tse |
to avoid responsibility; to shift the responsibility onto others; (Tw) to relieve sb of their responsibilities (e.g. upon retirement) |
夕勤 see styles |
yuukin / yukin ゆうきん |
evening shift |
夜勤 see styles |
yakin やきん |
night shift |
夜業 see styles |
yagyou / yagyo やぎょう |
(n,vs,vi) night work; night shift |
夜班 see styles |
yè bān ye4 ban1 yeh pan |
night shift |
夜直 see styles |
yachoku やちょく |
night duty; night shift |
嫁す see styles |
kasu かす |
(Godan verb with "su" ending) (1) (See 嫁する) to wed; to be married; (Godan verb with "su" ending) (2) to shift blame to someone else |
嫁禍 嫁祸 see styles |
jià huò jia4 huo4 chia huo |
to impute; to shift the blame onto someone else |
宿直 see styles |
shukuchoku; tonoi しゅくちょく; とのい |
(n,vs,vi) night watch; night guard; night shift |
挪動 挪动 see styles |
nuó dòng nuo2 dong4 no tung |
to move; to shift |
挪用 see styles |
nuó yòng nuo2 yong4 no yung |
to shift (funds); to (legitimately) take funds set aside for one purpose in order to use them for another; to embezzle; to misappropriate |
挪開 挪开 see styles |
nuó kāi nuo2 kai1 no k`ai no kai |
to move (something) aside; to step aside; to move over (when sitting on a bench); to shift (one's gaze) |
挹注 see styles |
yì zhù yi4 zhu4 i chu |
to shift resources into areas of need; to inject funds; to balance resources |
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The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
| Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
| The incompetent boat pilot blames the river for his shortcomings | 不會撐船賴河灣 不会撑船赖河湾 | bù huì chēng chuán lài hé wān bu4 hui4 cheng1 chuan2 lai4 he2 wan1 bu hui cheng chuan lai he wan buhuichengchuanlaihewan | pu hui ch`eng ch`uan lai ho wan puhuichengchuanlaihowan pu hui cheng chuan lai ho wan |
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| Allah God of Islam | 真主 | zhēn zhǔ / zhen1 zhu3 / zhen zhu / zhenzhu | chen chu / chenchu | |
| In some entries above you will see that characters have different versions above and below a line. In these cases, the characters above the line are Traditional Chinese, while the ones below are Simplified Chinese. | ||||
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