#qizi

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

op was firing glazed ware and noticed that there was always dripping glaze that cnetizens said could be used as qizi棋子of weiqi围棋(chinese encirclement board game)

[kremechihihi]

QiZi but MewYo 💘

[bellaroles]

Currently reading Qizi. Umm it's a lot to take in; omegaverse-ish but not really, sci fi with a bit of cultivation inspired, teenage drama-angst, action packed, enemies to lover. Hmm I like the creative world-building lore and I want to know more. Also this is so addicting hehe

[gorgeousmanfounddeadinacroptop]

i really hope that even if huaien becomes crown prince or wtv they continue refering to him as xiaobaos wife i also hope he takes a liking to being xiaobaos wife i think its really cute

[mb26-44]

Xeyirli axşamlar Elqizi, elimin qizi🧕🪻 @son-damla.🪻🪻 Dedim axi borclu qalan deyilem. Senin şerefine senin sevdiyin mahni seslensin.

Xoş dinlemeler her kes ücün 🎼🎧

[gravitasmalfunction]

Aaaaaahhhh Xiao Heng's smug little smile when the Emperor asks him where he found such a great pawn and he replies that she was the one who found him. I had to double check I was not mishearing a pawn/wife pun (I was not mishearing, the tones are different but they're both qizi). At least, I think it's a pun. If it's not, it should be.

[misterpoet333]

tears ran these streets

for many years

leaving behind

water stains

📸 idan Nazim qizi

[captain-price-unofficially]

Jr. Lt. Ziba Pasha Qizi Ganiyeva, a sniper in the 151st Infantry Reconnaissance Battalion, 130th Infantry Division, Soviet Army ca. 1941/42.

[immemorymag]

Fidan Nazim Qizi lives in Baku, Azerbaijan. She received her university education in librarianship and information. After working in a library for years, she moved into accounting, but in recent years has focused entirely on photography. 

She works with 'cyanotype', an old method that has been used since 1843.

She is currently working as an editor and photographer.

[papatya-guzeli]

😍😍

Dağ başında quzu var

Ahi kimi gözü var

Qız oğlanı sevərsə

Kimin ona sözü var

🎙️Kejoo Beats & Sevda

Oğlan qizi sevərsə

kimin ona sözü var..

👍Guzel şarkı 🎵🎼🎶

#YaZaşkı 🩷💙 #şarkı #ahugözler

[aespaupdate]

231210 KARINA & WINTER

Cr. QIZI

[virtuallyinsane-dark]

Photo by Fidan Nazim qizi

[kremechihihi]

sana all, hinalik 😒

[vynegar]

lost in translation (ch 10)

a (non-exhaustive) list of differences or cultural references i noted down for the translation of chapter 10 while watching the chn and eng versions side-by-side. previously i did the same thing for chapter 9.

disclaimer: i am not fluent in chinese, so keep in mind that there will be mistakes. feel free to let me know if you have questions, concerns, or comments.

overall: not too much stood out to me. after looking back on my comments on ch 9, i guess there was less awkwardness in this chapter's translation since i didn't really make a notice things like clunky grammar or sentences. i feel like most of these examples are more like fun facts or nitpicking rather than things i really feel like i need to correct.

rhinoceros horn

心有灵犀一点通, or just 心有灵犀, is a well-known idiom that uses the rhinoceros horn as a metaphor. the idiom definition from the pleco dictionary app:

(idiom) hearts which beat in unison are linked; hearts linked as one, just as the proverbial rhinoceros communicates emotion telepathically through his single horn (idiom); fig. two hearts beat as one

so it can be used to describe people who are connected or very in sync. and here's the description of the rhino horn, also from a pleco definition:

magic horn (i.e. rhinoceros horn with its threadlike white core, mentioned in old texts as having a high sensibility)—heartbeat in unison 身无彩凤双飞翼, 心有灵犀一点通。(李商隐《无题》) Shēn wú cǎi fèng shuāngfēi yì, xīn yǒu língxī yīdiǎn tōng. For bodies no fluttering side by side of splendid phoenix wings, | Between hearts the one minute thread from root to tip of the magic horn. (The second line is often quoted as meaning a meeting of minds.)

the white threadlike core connecting each end of the horn is why it's used as a metaphor for connection; considering this imagery, having the horn hold the wick of a candle also makes perfect sense.

i know the story focused on the role of the rhinoceros horn in 异苑 "Bizarre Gardens", but i'm not familiar with the work so i won't try to add beyond the game's explanation :') i'm just noting the reference that i was aware of

10-1

no issues with the translation, but there's a bit of wordplay in the chinese version. translated more literally, it would be something like "and once the round was over, the pawn [棋子] simply became something to be discarded [弃子】." the bolded words are near-homophones, both pronounced "qizi" with just a difference in tone.

10-3

the number four is seen as unlucky in chinese culture (and other east asian cultures) since its pronunciation sounds like the word for "death". by extension, the number 14 is also unlucky, which is why prankster started the "ghost" appearances on the 14th floor of the building.

general note on translation; a lot of times in the narration, short descriptors are lost in the process of chn -> eng, probably since the full translation would make the sentence a bit unwieldy. usually it's not super important or the the meaning that it carries is made redundant through other context. for example, in 10-3, when they're discussing the culprit of the mischief in the office:

this contains the phrase "artem, who [the culprit] hates". this could be considered redundant through context (because why else would someone be targeting artem in this way?) but in eng, they don't specify this as it does in the original text.

another example in 10-5 when they confront the fortuneteller:

there were a few adverbs dropped from the translation in this section. i picked this one since it had the most change; in chn, she casually glances over it, but in eng, she "inspects" it which sounds much more thorough.

10-13

陆景和一改刚才冷峻严肃的模样，直接不顾形象地斜坐在会议室的长桌上。 Marius changes from his cold demeanor from earlier, and he sits down at the long table in the conference room with no regard for his image.

i... feel like the meaning got flipped to its opposite meaning and it's so puzzling that i'm still wondering if i'm just interpreting it wrong?? hence my typing out the chn text too, so other people can check it as well. i even tried a few different machine translations but this is still my conclusion. anyway, if my analyses so far are correct, this would be the second time that marius's personality becomes a bit harsher after the eng translation (it happened before in ch 9).

10-21

If it weren't for the fact that the copy [of the report] was still there and that it was something I had only mentioned to Artem, I would have thought that he had long since known what I was planning to do next.

also a sentence flipped to basically the opposite meaning, to the point that i doubt myself, but i think this time it's because the sentence is a bit long with a lot of confusing negatives

10-26

When visiting Brigid Gries:

You: Yeah, gege's right! Don't worry, you'll be fine! // [Brigid's writing:] "Thank you, shushu and jiejie" // Without stopping to tease that "shushu", you and Artem exchange a glance.

this is another situation with ways of addressing people in chinese; please check my comments on the scene in chapter 9-14 if you want an explanation of the terms.

rip rosa. you tried xD but looks like artem can't escape the shushu/uncle allegations 😔 and Brigid even called rosa "older sister" right in front of them both... ice cold.

also this time, jerome is just himself shushu

now switching scenes to vyn:

on second thought this might be too trivial, but whatever, we're already here and i have the screenshot and i'm a vyn blog. basically in chinese, vyn "looks up at Matthew Richter with a smile that's not quite a smile." that's pretty much the most literal definition of the phrase, and since it's vyn we can probably already assume that the smile wouldn't be a simple happy one, but yeah. now the last one!

I have decided that I want to become a hero. No, that's not right. It's not that I want to…

revised version leads more naturally into his next sentence as he explains himself. this is actually a nice transition since i'm going to mention this scene again in another post about ch 10, so stay tuned!! and thanks for reading, let me know what thoughts you had about this or the chapter ^^

[ilahitragediya]

Olecekmis kimi hiss etmek...Bunun bir aciqlamasi yoxdur. Sevgi ucun hormonlarin oyunu libidonun intriqasi deye bilerik amma bunun izahi yoxdur. bir xestelikle mubarize aparanda ve ya omrunuzun son illerini demleyende zehninizde yavas yavas ölüm formalasir oleceyini hiss etmek bele deyil. Depresif pacanlarin ölümü dusunmeyi kimi de deyil. Dunya ustune gelir bunlarin hetta en sevdiyi film "butterfly effect" olur. Men olmasaydim dunya gozel yer olardi deyirler.

Oleceyini fikirlesen adam heyatdan zovq almaz nece alsin sabah birigun oleceyini bilen adam nece zovq alsin? 20li yaslarda 80 yasinda hiss edirem ozumu. Bunun ustune birde mende merhemet hissi oyanib. Parkda oynayan usaqlara baxmaq saqqiz konfet alib uzlerini guldurmek isteyirem. Sevgilisi ile dalasan gencleri gorende birde bu qizi incitsen medeni formada gtuvu desecem deyib barisdirmaq isteyirem

İnsanlarin cox oldugu yerlere gede bilmirem isteyirem hami gulsun eylensin bir muddet meni unutsun belke de hezz ala bilmirem dediyim budu. hami sohbet etsin eylensin fani hisslerin arxasinca getsin men de baxib gulumseyim tezlikle olecem axi) ona gore dedikleri mene uzaq ve menasiz gorunur. Agzimi acan kimi onlara nesihet vermeye baslayiram "elediyiniz hecneden pesman olmayin" deyende hamisi heyretle baxir "menim yasima gelende meni basa dusersiz" deyib gulumseyirem ve barmenden quşüzümü şiresi isteyirem barmen yoxdu tekila verim deyende onsuzda 3 gunluk dunyadi ne verirsen ver deyirem

Hersey biraz gulmeli gorunur insanlar qarisqa kimi ora bura qacir onlarin zehmetini yuksek qiymetlendirirem amma onlarin sohretperestliyi meni kederlendirir. Gozumde cox sey deyerini itirir. Telesmirem. Kucelerde yavas yeriyirem. illerle ustune basdigim her seki dasini sozun esl menasinda hezm edirem. Her kuncde xatireler canlanir pesmanliqlar qoca ureyimi parcalayir indiye qeder yasadiqlarim ucun "ne ede bilerdim, ne oldu" deyib ah cekirem tale deyib teessufle gulumseyirem.

Siyirmenin dibindeki cheklere ya da saralmis kohne sekillere saatlarla baxa bilerem. İndiye qeder yeterince gulmediyim butun zarafatlari lenetleyirem. Evveller eshi deyib kecdiyim butun hadiseler indi ciddi gorunur. Tezlikle oleceyimi hiss etmesem kim bilir neler ederdim. Bu cox qeribedir. Hecvaxt yaxsi xatirlanmagi bele arzulamamisdim.

[nigrummblog]

evden biri su isteyende elimde isim oldugu gore gore bu evin qizi varsa suyu niye o getirmir deyen qardasimi nece oldure bilerem acil taktik lutfen, allahin yobazi magara adami