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Definition
Tangram; a dissection puzzle consisting of seven flat shapes which can be combined to form various designs.
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How it's used
Tangrams are a classic educational toy often found in primary school classrooms or at home to encourage spatial reasoning. While the name literally refers to the seven pieces, it is almost always treated as a singular set or game when discussed in conversation.
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This set of tangrams can be used to build many different patterns.
Did you play with tangrams when you were a kid?
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Grammar guides
- LocationHow to say where something is using 喺 (hai2), place words like 度, and the common coverbs that work like English prepositions.
- Serial verbsStringing two or more verbs together without any joining word, like go to the shop buy things. Extremely common in Cantonese.
- 將 disposalHow to move the object in front of the verb with 將, to focus on what happens to it. Common in instructions and writing.
