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Most of the Hong Kong stars’ name cannot match word by word, which creates lots of difficulties in translation.

Let’s start with the following:

張曼玉 zhang1man4yu Maggie Cheung Man-Yuk
劉嘉玲 liu2jia1ling2 Carina Lau Ka-Ling
周潤發 zhou1run4fa1 Chow Yun-fat
周星馳 zhou1xing1chi2 Stephen Chow
成龍 Jackie Chan
陳德森 Teddy Chen
曾志偉 Eric Tsang
徐若瑄 Vivian Hsu
金玟 Kim Min Jeong (Korean)
吳興國 Wu Hsing-kuo
張達明 ? Cheung Tat-ming,
? Alfred Cheung
夏萍? Ha Ping
? Vincent Kuk

抛磚引玉 This is only a start, so you can help to put in more and more…
I’ll add more to the above if you can give us more in your comments..

They are called “Terracotta warriors”, but more correctly:
The Terracotta Army (兵馬俑;
pinyin: bīng mǎ yōng or bing1ma3yong3 , literal meaning: “Soldier and Horse Figures”), inside the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor (秦始皇陵; pinyin: qín shǐ huáng líng ), was discovered in March 1974 during the sinking of wells for farmland irrigation construction near Xi’an, Shaanxi province, People’s Republic of China.

So They should be army (including warriors and horses) instead of just warriors.

More about Terracotta warriors/Army

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長城（长城）chang2 cheng2 (long wall)
short for
Traditional Chinese: 萬里長城; Simplified Chinese: 万里长城; pinyin: Wànlĭ Chángchéng
(meaning 10,000 li long wall. 2 li = 1 km)

The Wall stretches over a formidable 6,350 km (3,945 miles) (More about great wall)

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Great food, but what is it?
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Mandarin
Pinyin: Sheng4 dan4 kuai4 le4 (all 4th/falling tone)
汉字： 圣 诞 快 乐（聖誕快樂）   
Cantonese:
sing3 dan3 faai3 lok3     

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How to Greet in Chinese?
Hello/How are you? 你好
Mandarin: Ni2hao3   
Cantonese: nei2 hou5   

For some more basic greetings in Cantonese, you can go to http://chinesebay.com/cantonese/basic.asp

Want to say something else in Chinese? Post your requests in comments.

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