Talk:牽著

RFD discussion: September 2018–May 2019
All sum of parts in Chinese. 著 is an aspect marker that marks the continuation of a state or action: 吃著 (in a state of eating), 喝著 (in a state of drinking), 躺著 (in a state of lying down), 坐著 (in a state of sitting), 站著 (in a state of standing), 寫著 (in a state of writing), 打著 (in a state of beating), 掛著 (in a state of hanging), 看著 (in a state of looking), 問著 (in a state of asking), etc. and the ones above are non-idiomatic, unlike 跟著 and 隨著. Wyang (talk) 22:27, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete. — justin(r)leung { (t...) 22:29, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete. —Suzukaze-c◇◇ 22:30, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Actually, 活著 might be worth keeping. It's in Guoyu Cidian (with two pronunciations). — justin(r)leung { (t...) 22:34, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Okay, retracted 活著. Will expand soon. Wyang (talk) 22:39, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
 * The problem is, there are a lot of people who don't realize that the lack of a space between zhe and the pinyin for the verb does not mean that these are words. I agree with deleting these, but is there a way to help the people who type "youzhe" into the search bar? --Geographyinitiative (talk) 06:25, 16 September 2018 (UTC)
 * The answer lies in the improvement of the search function. Maintaining Pinyin entries is a waste of editors' time: every language in a non-Latin script has Roman-letter transcriptions +/- transliterations, yet only Chinese and Japanese include these as entries. People search in romanisations all the time, e.g. kataba for Arabic, sawatdee for Thai , annyeong for , not just with Hanyu Pinyin. Wyang (talk) 08:48, 16 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Right now, the search function is not easily capable of what it should be. How do you propose changing it so that this is no longer a problem? —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 20:41, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Chinese is different from most languages written in non-Latin scripts, in two ways. It's not written in a phonetic script; transcription of words written in Korean or Cyrillic scripts can to some degree be humanly transliterated back to its original script. It's also standardized in the Latin script; there is no one or two ways to transcribe Korean or Russian in Latin script, but Chinese in Latin script has been officially and in pract standardized as Pinyin.--Prosfilaes (talk) 04:03, 21 September 2018 (UTC)


 * I think I created some of these. I don't have an opinion on their deletion, but would hope that their definitions can be kept in usage examples at the main character entry. ---&#62; Tooironic (talk) 10:24, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
 * RFD deleted all of the entries currently listed in the title. Examples with 著 have been added to the respective verb entries. — justin(r)leung { (t...) 09:53, 7 May 2019 (UTC)