{"id":3139,"date":"2023-02-13T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/troubadourworks.com\/tiandi\/meotw\/?p=3139"},"modified":"2025-12-21T20:21:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T04:21:43","slug":"tuerqi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/troubadourworks.com\/tiandi\/meotw\/2023\/02\/13\/tuerqi\/","title":{"rendered":"T\u01d4\u2019\u011brq\u00ed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3>\n\t\t\t<span onclick=\"plus(this)\">T\u01d4\u2019\u011brq\u00ed<\/span><span class=\"plusinfo a\" onclick=\"minus(this)\">\n(<span class=\"mt\">Turkey<\/span>\n\u571f\u8033\u5176)<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"color: hsl(100, 85%, 40%);\"> \u2190 Tap\/click to show\/hide the \u201cflashcard\u201d<\/span><\/h3>\n\n<p>[<strong>Notes:<\/strong> <span style=\"color: hsl(100, 85%, 40%)\">Tap\/click on a <span onclick=\"plus(this)\"><i>P\u012bny\u012bn<\/i><\/span><span class=\"plusinfo\" onclick=\"minus(this)\">\n(P\u012bn\u00b7y\u012bn\n<span class=\"lit\">{Piecing Together} \u00b7 Sounds \u2192<\/span> <span class=\"mt\">[Pinyin]<\/span>\n\u62fc\u97f3)<\/span> expression to reveal its <\/span><span style=\"background-color: hsl(52, 55%, 87%);\">\u201cflashcard\u201d<\/span>; <span style=\"color: hsl(45, 85%, 40%)\">tap\/click on a <\/span><span style=\"background-color: hsl(52, 55%, 87%);\">\u201cflashcard\u201d<\/span> <span style=\"color: hsl(45, 85%, 40%)\">or its <span onclick=\"plus(this)\"><i>P\u012bny\u012bn<\/i><\/span><span class=\"plusinfo\" onclick=\"minus(this)\">\n(P\u012bn\u00b7y\u012bn\n<span class=\"lit\">{Piecing Together} \u00b7 Sounds \u2192<\/span> <span class=\"mt\">[Pinyin]<\/span>\n\u62fc\u97f3)<\/span> expression to hide the<\/span> <span style=\"background-color: hsl(52, 55%, 87%);\">\u201cflashcard\u201d<\/span>. <span class=\"plusinfotransl\">\ud83d\udcd6<\/span> <span class=\"plusinfotransl\">\ud83d\udcc4<\/span> \ud83d\udcd8 icons mean <span class=\"plusinfotransl\">\ud83d\udcd6<\/span> <strong>Reveal All<\/strong>, <span class=\"plusinfotransl\">\ud83d\udcc4<\/span> <strong>Reveal Advanced<\/strong>, and \ud83d\udcd8 <strong>Reveal None<\/strong> re all the <span class=\"plusinfotransl\">\u201cflashcards\u201d<\/span> in the heading, paragraph, etc. that they are placed at the beginning of.]<\/p>\n<p>On February 6, 2023, strong earthquakes struck Turkey and Syria, resulting in tens of thousands of people being killed (over 36,000 at the time of this writing), tens of thousands being injured, and hundreds of thousands being left homeless. So, as of this writing, the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jw.org\/en\/library\/series\/more-topics\/earthquakes-Bible-Turkey-Syria\/\" title=\"Devastating Earthquakes Strike Turkey and Syria-What Does the Bible Say?\">\u201cDevastating Earthquakes Strike Turkey and Syria\u2014What Does the Bible Say?\u201d<\/a> is being featured on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jw.org\" title=\"Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses\u2014Official Website: jw.org\">jw.org<\/a>, and this week\u2019s MEotW is \u201c<span onclick=\"plus(this)\"><i>T\u01d4\u2019\u011brq\u00ed\u2009<\/i><\/span><span class=\"plusinfo\" onclick=\"minus(this)\">\n(<span class=\"mt\">Turkey<\/span>\n\u571f\u8033\u5176)<\/span>\u201d, the Mandarin word for \u201cTurkey\u201d. Knowing this will help us in the Mandarin field as we hear about, talk about, and pray about Turkey in the time ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Note that it is apparent that \u201c<span onclick=\"plus(this)\"><i>T\u01d4\u2019\u011brq\u00ed\u2009<\/i><\/span><span class=\"plusinfo\" onclick=\"minus(this)\">\n(<span class=\"mt\">Turkey<\/span>\n\u571f\u8033\u5176)<\/span>\u201d was chosen to represent \u201cTurkey\u201d in Mandarin because of what it <em>sounds<\/em> like, not because of the <em>meanings<\/em> of the supposedly <a href=\"http:\/\/pinyin.info\/readings\/texts\/ideographic_myth.html\" title=\"Ideographic Myth\">ideographic<\/a> (representing meaning directly through visible symbols, bypassing speech) Chinese characters used to write it out (\u201cSoil Ear It\u201d??? \ud83e\udd37\ud83c\udffb).<\/p>\n<h4>Some Related Mandarin Expressions<\/h4>\n<p>Here are some other Mandarin expressions from the above-mentioned article that should be useful to know regarding this situation:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 1em\"><span onclick=\"plus(this)\"><i>X\u00f9l\u00ecy\u00e0<\/i><\/span><span class=\"plusinfo a\" onclick=\"minus(this)\">\n(<span class=\"mt\">Syria<\/span>\n\u53d9\u5229\u4e9a\n<span class=\"trad\">\u6558\u5229\u4e9e<\/span>)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 1em\"><span onclick=\"plus(this)\"><i>qi\u00e1ngzh\u00e8n<\/i><\/span><span class=\"plusinfo a\" onclick=\"minus(this)\">\n(qi\u00e1ng\u00b7zh\u00e8n\n<span class=\"mt\">strong; powerful \u00b7 <span class=\"lit\">{quaking \u2192<\/span> [earthquake]<span class=\"lit\">}<\/span> (abbr. for <i>qi\u00e1ngli\u00e8 d\u00eczh\u00e8n<\/i>)<\/span>\n\u5f3a\u9707\n<span class=\"trad\">\u5f37\u9707<\/span>)<\/span>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 1em\"><span onclick=\"plus(this)\"><i>d\u00e0<\/i><\/span><span class=\"plusinfo a\" onclick=\"minus(this)\">\n(<span class=\"mt\"><span class=\"lit\">big \u2192<\/span> [great]<\/span>\n\u5927)<\/span>\n\n<span onclick=\"plus(this)\"><i>d\u00eczh\u00e8n<\/i><\/span><span class=\"plusinfo a\" onclick=\"minus(this)\">\n(d\u00ec\u00b7zh\u00e8n\n<span class=\"mt\">earth\u00b7quake<\/span>\n\u5730\u9707)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 1em\"><span onclick=\"plus(this)\"><i>w\u00fa\u2010ji\u0101\u2010k\u011b\u2010gu\u012b<\/i><\/span><span class=\"plusinfo a\" onclick=\"minus(this)\">\n((w\u00fa\n<span class=\"lit\">without<\/span>\n\u65e0\n<span class=\"trad\">\u7121\/\u65e0<\/span>)\u2010(ji\u0101\n<span class=\"lit\">home<\/span>\n\u5bb6)\u2010(k\u011b\n<span class=\"lit\">{(that) can}<\/span>\n\u53ef)\u2010(gu\u012b\n<span class=\"lit\">{be returned to}<\/span>\n\u5f52\n<span class=\"trad\">\u6b78<\/span>)\n<span class=\"lit\">\u2192<\/span> <span class=\"mt\">[homeless]<\/span>)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 1em\"><span onclick=\"plus(this)\"><i>c\u01cenj\u00f9<\/i><\/span><span class=\"plusinfo a\" onclick=\"minus(this)\">\n(c\u01cen\u00b7j\u00f9\n<span class=\"lit\">miserable; tragic \u00b7 {theatrical work (drama, play, opera, etc.)} \u2192<\/span> <span class=\"mt\">[tragedy; calamity; disaster]<\/span>\n\u60e8\u5267\n<span class=\"trad\">\u6158\u5287<\/span>)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 1em\"><span onclick=\"plus(this)\"><i>\u0101nw\u00e8i<\/i><\/span><span class=\"plusinfo a\" onclick=\"minus(this)\">\n(\u0101n\u00b7w\u00e8i\n<span class=\"mt\">calming \u00b7 consoling; comforting<\/span>\n\u5b89\u6170)<\/span>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 1em\">\n\t\t\t\t\n<span onclick=\"plusParentNode(this)\" title=\"Reveal All\" class=\"plusinfotransl\">\ud83d\udcd6<\/span> <span onclick=\"advParentNode(this)\" title=\"Reveal Advanced\" class=\"plusinfotransl\">\ud83d\udcc4<\/span> <span onclick=\"minusParentNode(this)\" title=\"Reveal None\">\ud83d\udcd8<\/span>\n\n\u201c<span onclick=\"plus(this)\"><i>c\u00ec<\/i><\/span><span class=\"plusinfo\" onclick=\"minus(this)\">\n(<span class=\"mt\">gives<\/span>\n\u8d50\n<span class=\"trad\">\u8cdc<\/span>)<\/span>\n\n<span onclick=\"plus(this)\"><i>y\u00edqi\u00e8<\/i><\/span><span class=\"plusinfo\" onclick=\"minus(this)\">\n(y\u00ed\u00b7qi\u00e8\n<span class=\"mt\"><span class=\"lit\">{one (whole)} \u00b7 {corresponding (set of)} \u2192<\/span> [all]<\/span>\n\u4e00\u5207)<\/span>\n\n<strong>\n<span onclick=\"plus(this)\"><i>\u0101nw\u00e8i<\/i><\/span><span class=\"plusinfo a\" onclick=\"minus(this)\">\n(\u0101n\u00b7w\u00e8i\n<span class=\"mt\">calming \u00b7 comforting<\/span>\n\u5b89\u6170)<\/span>\n<\/strong>\n\n<span onclick=\"plus(this)\"><i>de<\/i><\/span><span class=\"plusinfo\" onclick=\"minus(this)\">\n(<span class=\"mt\">\u2019s<\/span>\n\u7684)<\/span>\n\n<span onclick=\"plus(this)\"><i>Sh\u00e0ngd\u00ec<\/i><\/span><span class=\"plusinfo\" onclick=\"minus(this)\">\n(Sh\u00e0ng\u00b7d\u00ec\n<span class=\"lit\">Above\u2019s \u00b7 {Emperor \u2192 [God]} \u2192<\/span> <span class=\"mt\">[God]<\/span>\n\u4e0a\u5e1d)<\/span>.\u201d\u2014<span onclick=\"plus(this)\"><i>G\u0113l\u00edndu\u014d H\u00f2ush\u016b<\/i><\/span><span class=\"plusinfo\" onclick=\"minus(this)\">\n((G\u0113l\u00edndu\u014d\n<span class=\"lit\">Corinth<\/span>\n\u54e5\u6797\u591a)\n(H\u00f2u\u00b7sh\u016b\n<span class=\"lit\">Later \u00b7 Book<\/span>\n\u540e\u4e66\n<span class=\"trad\">\u5f8c\/\u540e\u66f8<\/span>)\n<span class=\"lit\">\u2192<\/span> <span class=\"mt\">[2 Corinthians]<\/span>)<\/span>\n\n<i>1:3<\/i>\n\n(<span onclick=\"plus(this)\"><i>P\u012bny\u012bn<\/i><\/span><span class=\"plusinfo\" onclick=\"minus(this)\">\n(P\u012bn\u00b7y\u012bn\n<span class=\"lit\">{Piecing Together} \u00b7 Sounds \u2192<\/span> <span class=\"mt\">[Pinyin]<\/span>\n\u62fc\u97f3)<\/span>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wol.jw.org\/cmn-Hans\/wol\/b\/r23\/lp-chs-rb\/nwtsty\/47\/1#v=47:1:3\" title=\"\u54e5\u6797\u591a\u540e\u4e66 1 \u2014 \u5b88\u671b\u53f0\u7ebf\u4e0a\u4e66\u5e93\">WOL<\/a>;\n\n<span onclick=\"plus(this)\"><i>P\u012bny\u012bn<\/i><\/span><span class=\"plusinfo\" onclick=\"minus(this)\">\n(P\u012bn\u00b7y\u012bn\n<span class=\"lit\">{Piecing Together} \u00b7 Sounds \u2192<\/span> <span class=\"mt\">[Pinyin]<\/span>\n\u62fc\u97f3)<\/span>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/troubadourworks.com\/tiandi\/nwtsty\/Pinyin_Plus\/2-Greek\/47-2Co\/2Co-01.html\" title=\"2Co 1 - NWT (nwtsty) (P\u012bny\u012bn Plus, Web)\">Plus<\/a>).\n\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>\u201cTofu-Dreg Projects\u201d<\/h4>\n<p>Some have wondered why so many even relatively new buildings failed to withstand these earthquakes. One news <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/politics-2023-turkey-syria-earthquake-government-istanbul-fbd6af578a6056569879b5ef6c55d322\" title=\"Turkey's lax policing of building codes known before quake | AP News\">report<\/a> explains:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nexperts said there is a mountain of evidence \u2014 and rubble \u2014 pointing to a harsh reality about what made the quakes so deadly: Even though Turkey has, on paper, construction codes that meet current earthquake-engineering standards, they are too rarely enforced, explaining why thousands of buildings crumbled.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Buildings being poorly constructed, whether or not earthquake-engineering standards exist, is unfortunately not uncommon in this old system of things. There is even a Mandarin expression with its own <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tofu-dreg_project\" title=\"Tofu-dreg project - Wikipedia\">Wikipedia page<\/a> that describes such buildings:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<strong>&#8220;Tofu-dreg project&#8221;<\/strong> (Chinese: \u8c46\u8150\u6e23\u5de5\u7a0b; pinyin: <i>d\u00f2ufuzh\u0101 g\u014dngch\u00e9ng<\/i>) is a phrase used in the Chinese-speaking world to describe a poorly constructed building, sometimes called just <strong>&#8220;Tofu buildings&#8221;<\/strong>. The phrase was coined by Zhu Rongji, the former premier of the People&#8217;s Republic of China, on a 1998 visit to Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province to describe a poorly-built set of flood dykes in the Yangtze River.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tofu-dreg_project#cite_note-1\" title=\"Wikipedia source information\">[source]<\/a><\/sup> The phrase is notably used referring to buildings collapsed in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake disaster.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tofu-dreg_project#cite_note-2\" title=\"Wikipedia source information\">[source]<\/a><\/sup><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tofu-dreg_project#cite_note-3\" title=\"Wikipedia source information\">[source]<\/a><\/sup><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tofu-dreg_project#cite_note-4\" title=\"Wikipedia source information\">[source]<\/a><\/sup><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tofu-dreg_project#cite_note-5\" title=\"Wikipedia source information\">[source]<\/a><\/sup><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tofu-dreg_project#cite_note-6\" title=\"Wikipedia source information\">[source]<\/a><\/sup><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tofu-dreg_project#cite_note-7\" title=\"Wikipedia source information\">[source]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>In China, the term tofu dregs (the pieces left over after making tofu) is widely used as a metaphor for shoddy work, hence the implication that a &#8220;tofu-dreg project&#8221; is a poorly executed project.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tofu-dreg_project#cite_note-8\" title=\"Wikipedia source information\">[source]<\/a><\/sup><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As we look forward to the new world that will no longer have such natural disasters as these earthquakes, nor the man-made conditions that make them even more deadly, may we keep our brothers and sisters in the affected areas in our prayers to Jehovah, the only true God and the \u201cGod of all comfort\u201d\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/wol.jw.org\/en\/wol\/b\/r1\/lp-e\/nwtsty\/43\/17#v=43:17:3\" title=\"John 17 \u2014 Watchtower ONLINE LIBRARY\">John 17:3<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wol.jw.org\/en\/wol\/b\/r1\/lp-e\/nwtsty\/47\/1#v=47:1:3\" title=\"2 Corinthians 1 \u2014 Watchtower ONLINE LIBRARY\">2 Corinthians 1:3<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Notes: Tap\/click on a expression to reveal its \u201cflashcard\u201d; tap\/click on a \u201cflashcard\u201d or its expression to hide the \u201cflashcard\u201d. \ud83d\udcd6 \ud83d\udcc4 \ud83d\udcd8 icons mean \ud83d\udcd6 Reveal All, \ud83d\udcc4 Reveal Advanced, and \ud83d\udcd8 Reveal None re all the \u201cflashcards\u201d in the heading, paragraph, etc. that they are placed at the beginning of.] On February 6, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,61,98,19,16,21,176],"tags":[25,104,119,97,427,78,82,143,46,136],"class_list":["post-3139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-current-events","category-history","category-language-learning","category-names","category-nations","category-science","tag-chinese-characters","tag-ideographic-myth","tag-jw-org","tag-linguistics","tag-myths","tag-pinyin-plus","tag-pinyin-info","tag-related-expressions","tag-translation","tag-usage-examples"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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