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Top English Phrases Borrowed from Chinese

Although a debate currently rages amongst Chinese academics, linguists and lexicographers over English’s place within the Chinese dictionary, English speakers all over the world continue to use bits and pieces of the Chinese language on a daily basis, through various phrases and loanwords previously “borrowed” from Chinese. Here are the top 10 Chinese phrases that made it over the Great Wall and into the vocabularies of English speakers everywher, with a few that might just surprise you.

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Li Shizhen 李时珍

李时珍（1518年-1593年），字东璧，晚年自号濒湖山人，湖北蕲州（今湖北省黄冈市蕲春县蕲州镇）人，汉族。中国古代伟大的医学家、药物学家。 Li Shizhen (1518-1593), was of the Han nationality. He had the courtesy name of Dongbi and the pseudonym Binhu

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Mung bean 绿豆

Speculators have driven up the price of mung beans, popular for their medicinal value.  Li Shizhen(李时珍 Lǐ Shízhēn), a pharmacologist in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), identified medical functions of mung beans and recorded them in "Ben Cao Gang Mu" ("Compendium of Materia Medica"), a classic of TCM pharmacopoeia.

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船歌 歌手: 童丽

船歌(chuángē) 演唱: 童(tóng)丽(lì) 姐儿(jiěer)头(tóu)上(shàng)戴(dài)着(zhe)杜鹃花(dùjuānhuā) 呀(ya)迎(yíng)着风(zhefēng)儿(ér)随(suí)浪(làng)逐(zhú)彩霞(cǎixiá) 船(chuán)儿(ér)摇(yáo)过(guò)春水(chūnshuǐ)不(bù)说话(shuōhuà) 呀(ya)水乡(shuǐxiāng)温柔(wēnróu)何处(héchù)是(shì)我家 船(chuán)儿(ér)摇(yáo)过(guò)春水(chūnshuǐ)不(bù)说话(shuōhuà) 呀(ya)随着(suízhe)歌儿(gēer)划(huá)向(xiàng)梦(mèng)里(lǐ)的(de)他(tā) 嘴儿(zuǐér)轻轻(qīngqīng)唱(chàng)呀(ya)不(bù)说话(shuōhuà) 呀(ya)水乡(shuǐxiāng)温柔(wēnróu)向(xiàng)那(nà)梦(mèng)里(lǐ)的(de)画(huà) 嘴儿(zuǐér)轻轻(qīngqīng)唱(chàng)呀(ya)唱(chàng)不休(bùxiū)呀(ya) 呀(ya)年华(niánhuá)飘(piāo)过(guò)歌声(gēshēng)似(sì)水流(shuǐliú) 船(chuán)儿(ér)摇(yáo)过(guò)春水(chūnshuǐ)不(bù)停留(tíngliú) 呀(ya)摇(yáo)到(dào)风(fēng)儿(ér)吹(chuī)波(bō)天(tiān)凉(liáng)的(de)秋(qiū) 船(chuán)儿(ér)摇(yáo)过(guò)春水(chūnshuǐ)不(bù)停留(tíngliú) 呀(ya)鱼(yú)儿(ér)双(shuāng)双(shuāng)结(jié)伴(bàn)水(shuǐ)底(dǐ)游(you) 谁(shuí)的(de)船(chuán)歌(gē)唱(chàng)的(de)声(shēng)悠(yōu)悠(yōu) 水(shuǐ)乡(xiāng)温(wēn)柔(róu)来(lái)到(dào)天(tiān)凉(liáng)的(de)秋(qiū)

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