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Yum cha is the Cantonese tradition of early morning breakfast involving Chinese tea and dim sum, which always is mistakenly called yum cha overseas.[ 1][ 2] The practice is popular in Cantonese -speaking regions, including Guangdong province, Guangxi province, Hong Kong, and Macau. [ 3] It is also carried out in other regions worldwide where ...
Conch. Concha (lit.: " mollusk shell" or "inner ear") is an offensive word for a woman's vulva or vagina (i.e. something akin to English cunt) in Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Mexico. In the rest of Latin America and Spain however, the word is only used with its literal meaning.
Mourning is the expression [ 2] of an experience that is the consequence of an event in life involving loss, [ 3] causing grief. [ 2] It typically occurs as a result of someone's death, often (but not always) someone who was loved, [ 3] although loss from death is not exclusively the cause of all experience of grief.
Hanakotoba. Hanakotoba (花言葉) is the Japanese form of the language of flowers. The language was meant to convey emotion and communicate directly to the recipient or viewer without needing the use of words.
The written form of the Chinese word for tea was created in the mid- Tang dynasty by modifying the character 荼 pronounced tu, meaning a "bitter vegetable". Tu was used to refer to a variety of plants in ancient China, and acquired the additional meaning of "tea" by the Han dynasty. [ 4] The Chinese word for tea was likely ultimately derived ...
The Traditional Chinese characters for the word huài dàn (坏蛋/壞蛋), a Mandarin Chinese profanity meaning, literally, "bad egg". Profanity in Mandarin Chinese most commonly involves sexual references and scorn of the object's ancestors, especially their mother. Other Mandarin insults accuse people of not being human.
Namaste ( Sanskrit pronunciation: [nɐmɐste:], [ 1] Devanagari: नमस्ते), sometimes called namaskār and namaskāram, is a customary Hindu [ 2][ 3][ 4] manner of respectfully greeting and honouring a person or group, used at any time of day. [ 5] It is used in the Indian subcontinent, and among the Indian and Nepalese diaspora.
Chinese people often address professionals in formal situations by their occupational titles. These titles can either follow the surname (or full name) of the person in reference, or it can stand alone either as a form of address or if the person being referred to is unambiguous without the added surname.