{"id":4772,"date":"2024-05-19T23:56:44","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T06:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/troubadourworks.com\/tiandi\/meotw\/?p=4772"},"modified":"2025-09-21T13:37:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T20:37:43","slug":"jia-xiaoxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/troubadourworks.com\/tiandi\/meotw\/2024\/05\/19\/jia-xiaoxi\/","title":{"rendered":"ji\u01ce xi\u0101oxi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3>\n\t\t\t<span onclick=\"plus(this)\">ji\u01ce<\/span><span class=\"plusinfo a\" onclick=\"minus(this)\">\n\t\t\t(<span class=\"mt\">false; fake<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u5047\n\t\t\t<span class=\"trad\">\u5047\/\u53da<\/span>)<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t<br class=\"\" \/>\n\n\t\t\t<span onclick=\"plus(this)\">xi\u0101oxi<\/span><span class=\"plusinfo a\" onclick=\"minus(this)\">\n\t\t\t(xi\u0101o\u00b7xi\n\t\t\t<span class=\"lit\">disappearing \u00b7 news \u2192<\/span> <span class=\"mt\">[news; information]<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u6d88\u606f)<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t<span style=\"color: hsl(100, 85%, 40%);\"> \u2190 Tap\/click to show\/hide the \u201cflashcard\u201d<\/span>\n<\/h3>\n\n<p>At the time of this writing, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jw.org\" title=\"Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses\u2014Official Website: jw.org\">jw.org<\/a> was featuring the whiteboard animation video \u201cProtect Yourself From Misinformation\u201d. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jw.org\/en\/bible-teachings\/teenagers\/whiteboard-animations\/protect-yourself-from-misinformation\/\" title=\"Protect Yourself From Misinformation | Whiteboard Animations\">English<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jw.org\/cmn-hans\/%E5%9C%A3%E7%BB%8F%E4%B8%8E%E7%94%9F%E6%B4%BB\/%E9%9D%92%E5%B0%91%E5%B9%B4\/%E7%99%BD%E6%9D%BF%E5%8A%A8%E7%94%BB%E7%89%87\/%E6%B6%88%E6%81%AF%E6%BB%A1%E5%A4%A9%E9%A3%9E%E5%A6%82%E4%BD%95%E8%BE%A8%E7%9C%9F%E5%81%87\/\" title=\"\u6d88\u606f\u6ee1\u5929\u98de\uff0c\u5982\u4f55\u8fa8\u771f\u5047 | \u767d\u677f\u52a8\u753b\u7247\">Mandarin<\/a> versions of this video match the English word \u201cmisinformation\u201d with this week\u2019s MEotW, <span onclick=\"plus(this)\"><i>\u201cji\u01ce<\/i><\/span><span class=\"plusinfo\" onclick=\"minus(this)\">\n\t\t\t(<span class=\"mt\">false; fake<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u5047\n\t\t\t<span class=\"trad\">\u5047\/\u53da<\/span>)<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t<span onclick=\"plus(this)\"><i>xi\u0101oxi<\/i><\/span><span class=\"plusinfo\" onclick=\"minus(this)\">\n\t\t\t(xi\u0101o\u00b7xi\n\t\t\t<span class=\"lit\">disappearing \u00b7 news \u2192<\/span> <span class=\"mt\">[news; information]<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u6d88\u606f)<\/span><i>\u201d:<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/troubadourworks.com\/tiandi\/meotw\/img\/screenshots\/misinformation-video-Eng-O-70.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot from the video \u201cProtect Yourself From Misinformation\u201d, 0:32 mark, showing \u201cMisinformation\u201d in the subtitle\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/troubadourworks.com\/tiandi\/meotw\/img\/screenshots\/misinformation-video-CHS-Py-O-70-2.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot from the video \u201c\u6d88\u606f\u6ee1\u5929\u98de\uff0c\u5982\u4f55\u8fa8\u771f\u5047\u201d, 0:32 mark, showing \u201c\u5047\u6d88\u606f (ji\u01ce xi\u0101oxi)\u201d in the subtitle\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[<strong>Note:<\/strong> The <a href=\"https:\/\/troubadourworks.com\/tiandi\/meotw\/2023\/07\/04\/shejiao-wangzhan\/\" title=\"sh\u00e8ji\u0101o w\u01cengzh\u00e0n - Mandarin Expression of the Week\">MEotW post<\/a> on <span onclick=\"plus(this)\"><i>\u201csh\u00e8ji\u0101o w\u01cengzh\u00e0n<\/i><\/span><span class=\"plusinfo\" onclick=\"minus(this)\">\n\t\t\t((sh\u00e8\u00b7ji\u0101o\n\t\t\t<span class=\"lit\">{god of the land \u2192 [society] \u2192 [social]} \u00b7 {meeting \u2192 [associating]} \u2192 [social contact\/interaction]<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u793e\u4ea4)\n\t\t\t(w\u01ceng\u00b7zh\u00e0n\n\t\t\t<span class=\"lit\">{net \u2192 [web]} \u00b7 {stand \u2192 [station]} \u2192 [website]<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u7f51\u7ad9\n\t\t\t<span class=\"trad\">\u7db2\u7ad9<\/span>)\n\t\t\t<span class=\"lit\">\u2192<\/span> <span class=\"mt\">[social networking website; social network]<\/span>)<\/span><i>\u201d<\/i> contains information about how to add unproofread computer-generated <span onclick=\"plus(this)\"><i>P\u012bny\u012bn<\/i><\/span><span class=\"plusinfo\" onclick=\"minus(this)\">\n\t\t\t(P\u012bn\u00b7y\u012bn\n\t\t\t<span class=\"lit\">{Piecing Together of} \u00b7 Sounds \u2192<\/span> <span class=\"mt\">[Pinyin]<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u62fc\u97f3)<\/span> to the subtitles of Mandarin videos on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jw.org\" title=\"Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses\u2014Official Website: jw.org\">jw.org<\/a> in most browsers.]<\/p>\n<p><span onclick=\"plus(this)\"><i>\u201cJi\u01ce<\/i><\/span><span class=\"plusinfo\" onclick=\"minus(this)\">\n\t\t\t(<span class=\"mt\">false; fake<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u5047\n\t\t\t<span class=\"trad\">\u5047\/\u53da<\/span>)<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t<span onclick=\"plus(this)\"><i>xi\u0101oxi<\/i><\/span><span class=\"plusinfo\" onclick=\"minus(this)\">\n\t\t\t(xi\u0101o\u00b7xi\n\t\t\t<span class=\"lit\">disappearing \u00b7 news \u2192<\/span> <span class=\"mt\">[news; information]<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u6d88\u606f)<\/span><i>\u201d<\/i> can also be translated as \u201cfalse news\u201d, \u201cfalse information\u201d, or perhaps even \u201cfake news\u201d, as confirmed by the <a href=\"http:\/\/access.ucam.org\/rte\/rte.cgi?q=jia%20xiaoxi&#038;e=1\" title=\"RTE online lookup\">entry for this expression<\/a> in the excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/tiandi.info\/adjuster-wol\/rte\/\" title=\"Referenced Theo. Expressions\">Referenced Theo. Expressions (RTE)<\/a> resource.<\/p>\n<h4>Disappearing?<\/h4>\n<p><span onclick=\"plus(this)\"><i>\u201cJi\u01ce<\/i><\/span><span class=\"plusinfo\" onclick=\"minus(this)\">\n\t\t\t(<span class=\"mt\">{[is] false; fake; phony; artificial} | if; supposing; assume; presume | borrow; {avail oneself of}<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u5047\n\t\t\t<span class=\"trad\">\u5047\/\u53da<\/span>)<\/span><i>\u201d<\/i> means \u201cfalse\u201d or \u201cfake\u201d, and <span onclick=\"plus(this)\"><i>\u201cxi\u0101oxi<\/i><\/span><span class=\"plusinfo\" onclick=\"minus(this)\">\n\t\t\t(xi\u0101o\u00b7xi\n\t\t\t<span class=\"lit\">disappearing \u00b7 news \u2192<\/span> <span class=\"mt\">[news; information]<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u6d88\u606f)<\/span><i>\u201d,<\/i> while used to effectively mean \u201cnews\u201d or \u201cinformation\u201d, actually literally means \u201cdisappearing news\u201d. Why \u201cdisappearing\u201d? Perhaps that is a nod to the fleeting nature of news\u2014relatively quickly, when it\u2019s not new anymore, it\u2019s not news anymore.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/%E6%B6%88%E6%81%AF\" title=\"\u6d88\u606f - Wiktionary, the free dictionary\">Wiktionary entry<\/a> for <span onclick=\"plus(this)\"><i>\u201cxi\u0101oxi<\/i><\/span><span class=\"plusinfo\" onclick=\"minus(this)\">\n\t\t\t(xi\u0101o\u00b7xi\n\t\t\t<span class=\"lit\">disappearing \u00b7 news \u2192<\/span> <span class=\"mt\">[news; information]<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u6d88\u606f)<\/span><i>\u201d<\/i> seems to bear this out, as it says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\u6d88\u606f (<i>xi\u0101oxi<\/i>) refers to <em>news<\/em> as in <em>new information<\/em>; to express the meaning of <em>news<\/em> as in <em>reports of current events<\/em>, use \u65b0\u805e\uff0f\u65b0\u95fb (<em>x\u012bnw\u00e9n<\/em>).\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span onclick=\"plus(this)\"><i>\u201cXi\u0101oxi<\/i><\/span><span class=\"plusinfo\" onclick=\"minus(this)\">\n\t\t\t(Xi\u0101o\u00b7xi\n\t\t\t<span class=\"lit\">disappearing \u00b7 news \u2192<\/span> <span class=\"mt\">[news; information]<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u6d88\u606f)<\/span><i>\u201d<\/i> also appears in the expression <span onclick=\"plus(this)\"><i>\u201ch\u01ceo<\/i><\/span><span class=\"plusinfo\" onclick=\"minus(this)\">\n\t\t\t(<span class=\"mt\">good<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u597d)<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t<span onclick=\"plus(this)\"><i>xi\u0101oxi<\/i><\/span><span class=\"plusinfo\" onclick=\"minus(this)\">\n\t\t\t(xi\u0101o\u00b7xi\n\t\t\t<span class=\"lit\">disappearing \u00b7 news \u2192<\/span> <span class=\"mt\">[news]<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u6d88\u606f)<\/span><i>\u201d,<\/i> meaning \u201cgood news\u201d, which we use often in the Mandarin field. In fact, <span onclick=\"plus(this)\"><i>\u201cH\u01ceo<\/i><\/span><span class=\"plusinfo\" onclick=\"minus(this)\">\n\t\t\t(<span class=\"mt\">Good<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u597d)<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t<span onclick=\"plus(this)\"><i>Xi\u0101oxi<\/i><\/span><span class=\"plusinfo\" onclick=\"minus(this)\">\n\t\t\t(Xi\u0101o\u00b7xi\n\t\t\t<span class=\"lit\">Disappearing \u00b7 News \u2192<\/span> <span class=\"mt\">[News]<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u6d88\u606f)<\/span><i>\u201d!<\/i> is the title of the concluding song for this year\u2019s Mandarin conventions! (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jw.org\/en\/library\/music-songs\/original-songs\/Good-News-2024-Convention-Song\/\" title=\"\u201cGood News\u201d! (2024 Convention Song)\">English<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jw.org\/cmn-hans\/%E5%A4%9A%E5%AA%92%E4%BD%93%E5%9B%BE%E4%B9%A6%E9%A6%86\/%E9%9F%B3%E4%B9%90\/%E5%8E%9F%E5%88%9B%E6%AD%8C%E6%9B%B2\/%E5%A5%BD%E6%B6%88%E6%81%AF2024%E5%A4%A7%E4%BC%9A%E5%8E%9F%E5%88%9B%E6%AD%8C%E6%9B%B2\/\" title=\"\u597d\u6d88\u606f\uff01\uff082024\u5927\u4f1a\u539f\u521b\u6b4c\u66f2\uff09\">Mandarin<\/a>, <span onclick=\"plus(this)\"><i>P\u012bny\u012bn<\/i><\/span><span class=\"plusinfo\" onclick=\"minus(this)\">\n\t\t\t(P\u012bn\u00b7y\u012bn\n\t\t\t<span class=\"lit\">{Piecing Together of} \u00b7 Sounds \u2192<\/span> <span class=\"mt\">[Pinyin]<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u62fc\u97f3)<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/troubadourworks.com\/tiandi\/sjj\/Pinyin_Plus\/songs\/Good_News.html\" title=\"\u201cGood News\u201d! (2024 Convention Song) (P\u012bny\u012bn+Music, P\u012bny\u012bn Plus, Web)\">Plus<\/a>) Also, we will say <span onclick=\"plus(this)\"><i>\u201cW\u00e1nggu\u00f3<\/i><\/span><span class=\"plusinfo\" onclick=\"minus(this)\">\n\t\t\t(W\u00e1ng\u00b7gu\u00f3\n\t\t\t<span class=\"lit\">King\u2019s \u00b7 Nation \u2192<\/span> <span class=\"mt\">[Kingdom]<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u738b\u56fd\n\t\t\t<span class=\"trad\">\u738b\u570b<\/span>)<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t<span onclick=\"plus(this)\"><i>de<\/i><\/span><span class=\"plusinfo\" onclick=\"minus(this)\"> \n\t\t\t(<span class=\"mt\">\u2019s<\/span> \n\t\t\t\u7684)<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t<span onclick=\"plus(this)\"><i>h\u01ceo<\/i><\/span><span class=\"plusinfo\" onclick=\"minus(this)\">\n\t\t\t(<span class=\"mt\">good<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u597d)<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t<span onclick=\"plus(this)\"><i>xi\u0101oxi<\/i><\/span><span class=\"plusinfo\" onclick=\"minus(this)\">\n\t\t\t(xi\u0101o\u00b7xi\n\t\t\t<span class=\"lit\">disappearing \u00b7 news \u2192<\/span> <span class=\"mt\">[news]<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u6d88\u606f)<\/span><i>\u201d<\/i> when we want to refer to \u201cthe good news of the Kingdom\u201d. Of course, while the message of this good news will \u201cdisappear\u201d as news when it is not news anymore, the Kingdom itself \u201cwill stand forever\u201d!\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/wol.jw.org\/en\/wol\/b\/r1\/lp-e\/nwtsty\/27\/2#study=discover&#038;v=27:2:44\" title=\"Daniel 2 \u2014 Watchtower ONLINE LIBRARY\">Daniel 2:44<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4>Myths and Misinformation About Chinese Characters, Etc.<\/h4>\n<p>As Mandarin field language learners, we need to be aware that many myths and much misinformation have been spread about the Chinese languages, especially when it comes to Chinese characters. Indeed, there is so much misinformation about Chinese characters that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Victor_H._Mair\" title=\"Victor H. Mair - Wikipedia\">Victor Mair<\/a> wrote the following in the foreword of the book <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ideogram-Chinese-Characters-Disembodied-Meaning\/dp\/0824827600\/\" title=\"Amazon.com: Ideogram: Chinese Characters and the Myth of Disembodied Meaning: 9780824827601: Unger, J. Marshall: Books\">Ideogram: Chinese Characters and the Myth of Disembodied Meaning<\/a>,<\/i> by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/J._Marshall_Unger\" title=\"J. Marshall Unger - Wikipedia\">J. Marshall Unger<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThere is probably no subject on earth concerning which more misinformation is purveyed and more misunderstandings circulated than Chinese characters (\u6f22\u5b57, Chinese <i>hanzi<\/i>, Japanese <i>kanji<\/i>, Korean <i>hanja<\/i>), or sinograms.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also, in his book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Chinese-Language-Fact-Fantasy\/dp\/0824810686\/\" title=\"The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy: DeFrancis, John: 9780824810689: Amazon.com: Books\"><i>The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy<\/i><\/a><i>,<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_DeFrancis\" title=\"John DeFrancis - Wikipedia\">John DeFrancis<\/a> lists the following myths regarding Chinese characters, that many believe:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Ideographic Myth\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/troubadourworks.com\/tiandi\/meotw\/2023\/10\/27\/hamijiduodun\/\" title=\"H\u0101m\u01d0j\u00eddu\u014dd\u00f9n - Mandarin Expression of the Week\">MEotW post<\/a> on <span onclick=\"plus(this)\"><i>\u201cH\u0101m\u01d0j\u00eddu\u014dd\u00f9n<\/i><\/span><span class=\"plusinfo\" onclick=\"minus(this)\"> \n\t\t\t(<span class=\"mt\">Armageddon<\/span> \n\t\t\t\u54c8\u7c73\u5409\u591a\u987f \n\t\t\t<span class=\"trad\">\u54c8\u7c73\u5409\u591a\u9813<\/span>)<\/span><i>\u201d<\/i> contains a discussion of this myth, with some selected excerpts on this subject from DeFrancis\u2019 book.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The Universality Myth<\/li>\n<li>The Emulatability Myth<\/li>\n<li>The Monosyllabic Myth<\/li>\n<li>The Indispensability Myth<\/li>\n<li>The Successfulness Myth<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Regarding these myths, in p. 2\u20133 of his aforementioned book, J. Marshall Unger provides this summary:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nPassing for the moment over the history of how the hunt for the perfect language unfolded, let us jump ahead to the result: the intellectual baggage about Chinese characters that we have inherited from the Renaissance and Enlightenment. John DeFrancis, in his classic book <i>The Chinese Language<\/i> (1984), sums up that weighty legacy under six headings, and a better summary would be hard to find. The source of all the confusion is what DeFrancis calls the <i>Ideographic<\/i> Myth, the notion that Chinese characters represent meaning directly, without reference to language (that is, speech) in any way. Its logical extension is the <i>Universality<\/i> Myth, according to which Chinese script allows for communication between mutually uninteligible dialects and languages. This leads in turn to the <i>Emulatability<\/i> Myth, which holds that Chinese script can serve as a model for a general system of signs that transcends natural language. These first three myths have little to do with the actual structure or history of the Chinese language or its writing system, in contrast with the remaining three: the <i>Monosyllabic<\/i> Myth, <i>Indispensability<\/i> Myth, and <i>Successfulness<\/i> Myth. Each of these\u2014the names are more or less self-explanatory\u2014makes a strong claim about language and the writing system, claims that have had significant social and political consequences.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At least some of the political consequences referred to above have been deliberate, meaning that at least some of the myths and misinformation spread about Chinese languages and Chinese characters qualify as political propaganda. If we\u2019re not careful, we could end up parroting this political propaganda. (We could also end up parroting <em>worldly human cultural propaganda<\/em>, which is also a bad thing for people who seek to be no part of the world.) Also, all the difficulties and confusion caused by all the myths and misinformation surrounding Chinese languages and Chinese characters massively hinder the efforts of Mandarin field language learners to stay spiritually strong and to reach the hearts of Mandarin-speakers with Bible truth. This can result in deeply negative <em>spiritual<\/em> consequences that should be of great concern to us. To complete the sentence quoted from the video mentioned at the beginning of this post:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nMisinformation isn\u2019t just inaccurate; it can also be dangerous!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the time of this writing, jw.org was featuring the whiteboard animation video \u201cProtect Yourself From Misinformation\u201d. 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