(bó kè) - blog in Mandarin
bókèTraditional: 博客
Translation
blog
Stroke order
博
客
Examples
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She updates her blog every day.
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I share travel experiences on my blog.
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This blog has a lot of readers.
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He started a blog about learning Chinese.
篇章。
This article is from a French blog.
博客 (bókè) is a straightforward phonetic borrowing of the English word "blog": 博 (bó, broad, extensive) and 客 (kè, guest) are chosen mainly for their sound rather than their literal meaning, though 博 (bó) does add a faint sense of "wide-ranging".
You will also see 部落格 (bùluògé), a longer transliteration more common in Taiwan, but 博客 (bókè) is the standard mainland term and the one used everywhere in this course.
Because it is a loanword, both syllables take a clean full tone, 博 (bó) rising and 客 (kè) falling; there is no neutral tone anywhere in the word to trip over.
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