"你会读这个字吗？"
Translation:Can you read this word?
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Semantics. Word and character are the same for pictographic languages like Chinese and hieroglyphics
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Very close, or Zir, Zier (pseudo-extended pinyin, hard to explain without audio).
Yes, zì generally refers to Chinese characters; and in Chinese, since the characters are run together, rather than grouped into "words" of several characters, it is not clear what counts as a "word" in Chinese. Therefore, zì is better translated as "character" rather than word.
Zi is differently translated as character and word in this app. Can we please be consistent
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or can you please arrange to accept both? Remember that translation is an approximate mapping from one language to another
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How does 会 become 'can' instead of 'will'? I wrote "will you read this character" and was marked incorrect. Why?
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"Are you able" is just as good a translation as "Can you" and should be accepted
