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Zhihu

Zhihu proper noun: a mainland China social question-and-answer website.

Proper noun

Zhihu

  1. A mainland China social question-and-answer website.
    • On the online forum Zhihu, people discussed its origins, external as a political term, and most seemed to agree that its adoption on social media is a reference to a character in early twentieth century writer Lu Xun's acclaimed novel "The True Story of Ah Q".2016 January 5, “The latest codeword used to beat China's internet censors”, in BBC News, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2019
    • Questions on the topic are mainstays on Q&A platform Zhihu, often attracting peppery responses from Sichuan users who deplore ignorance of the subtle differences between their many reddish regional concoctions.2017 June 28, Hatty Liu, “Hot Pot or Malatang?”, in The World of Chinese, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2018

Origin of Zhihu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 知乎 (Zhīhū), literally “do you know?” in Classical Chinese.

Questions about Zhihu

What does Zhihu mean?
Zhihu means a mainland China social question-and-answer website.
What part of speech is Zhihu?
Zhihu is a proper noun.

Words near Zhihu in the dictionary

  1. Zhiben
  2. Zhicheng
  3. Zhidan
  4. Zhidoi
  5. Zhifu
  6. Zhihu
  7. Zhijiang
  8. Zhijin
  9. Zhili
  10. zhimmi
  11. zhimmis

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