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- "王医生不是中国人。"
"王医生不是中国人。"
Translation:Doctor Wang is not Chinese.
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Actually, many Chinese would also address a Japanese who's surname is Ō as "Wang". Most Japanese names are pronounced with the Chinese pronunciation of the Japanese Kanji in China. A pity especially for all the pretty girls' names ending on 子 (-ko), that end on -zi in Chinese.
A bit of a slip up there, 汉子/漢子 means man/masculine man, it ought to be 汉字/漢字.
The correct answer was 'Doctor Wang is a man of many nations, but he's certainly not Chinese'
I could say that about both of the commenters above me, minus the Chinese part.
Then how would one say, "Wang is not a Chinese doctor." ? (That's what i thought the answer was.)
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That would be 王不是中国医生。
But it would be more polite to say 王医生 (Doctor Wang) / 王小姐 (Miss Wang) /王先生 (Mr. Wang) / 王太太 (Mrs. Wang) 不是中国医生。(is not a Chinese doctor.)
Maybe Doctor Wang married a Chinese person whose last name is Wang, and changed their last name.
Maybe doctor Wang is a citizen of a different country whose last name just happens to be Wang.
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Or maybe Wang is from Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Scandinavia, Germany or Netherlands
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_(surname)#The_surname_in_other_countries/ethnic_groups
By custom, that's how it's been done for any writing system outside of the Latin alphabets. Even François gets turned into Francis.
In English the abbreviation for doctor requires a period or full stop Dr. Wang. I don’t know if Duolingo accepts the abbreviation though.
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The character guó, which is part of "nation", seems to consist of a king (wáng) surrounded by something. Makes sense!
(Also, there's a little extra at the middle of the king. Probably his wang.)
You are onto something here, but it's a bit more roundabout. 王King>国Nation. Jade was used in a lot of the royal artifacts and was regarded as a precious material, so it makes sense why it would be written as a king with a little artifact on him, and a jade artifact encased in a box would represent the nation. Interestingly though this is a result of Chinese simplification. The traditional way of writing 国 is 國, which is "or" in a box.
Also, Jade character also means "treasure" (not just the stone), so the country is regarded as a treasure to be safeguarded.
When you accidentally type a letter next to the one you wanted, Duolingo only counts it as a typo if it doesn’t make another word.
"Doctor Wang is not a Chinese" is marked wrong. The correct is "Doctor Wang is not Chinese"
"isn't " is just as correct as "is not" yet my answer is marked as wrong
Put your entire answer here as the error may be elsewhere. If you actually have the exact answer above, with only that difference then please report it as also correct.
I used "isn't" instead of "is not", basically the whole sentence was "Doctor Wang isn't Chinese" and it was marked as wrong.
I have but am I supposed to receive some notification when it is accepted?
That makes no sense in English and translating word for word is not accurate translation. You need to translate the Chinese way of speaking to the English way of speaking.
In Chinese the last name always comes first and the first name or title comes afterwards, when you switch to English you must switch that because the last name always comes last in English after the first name or title. If “Wang Doctor” is something else, then that is not what is meant by the Chinese sentence.
It is a question, and grammatically fine. But it's not the easiest way to ask that question in English. You're not incorrect, but you'd be "more correct" to translate to the most commonly used English phrase.
It refers to the sentence this discussion is about. The sentence at the top of the page is not supposed to be a question.
