I really recommend Xiaojun's Lee Mujin service episode! His vocals in the whole episode are just stunning, and he shows amazing range and versatility. You can tell he's super well trained and his ability to express emotions when he sings is even more impressive. That episode cemented him as my bias (those are the kinds of vocalists that get me haha, like Jonghyun and JayB). To answer your qs about spoken/written chinese: Chinese has a huge amount of dialects, since it is such a large and old country. Mandarin is the standard language - used in schools, govt. etc - while Cantonese is the most spoken other dialect, originating and common in the south of China (Guangdong province, plus Macau, Hong Kong etc.). Some dialects can be quite close in sound, more like an accent (e.g. the members sometimes tease WinWin for his Wenzhou dialect 'er' sounds) while others can be indistinguishable and need to be learnt separately - like Mandarin and Cantonese. But, most of these dialects are written with the same characters - using 'simplified Chinese'. So, Mandarin and Cantonese speakers could communicate with the written word, but not vocally. But in case you wanted to be more confused, some places will speak the same/similar dialect but use different characters. Like Yangyang is from Taiwan, he speaks Mandarin, but they use traditional Chinese characters when reading and writing. There's more overlap here because, like it sounds, simplified Chinese was adapted from traditional Chinese to simplify, improve literacy, stuff like that. Here, simplified / traditional Chinese users can sometimes deduce what's being written in the other system when the simplification of character strokes is more intuitive, but it is different enough that you do have to actively learn the other system of characters to read well.
Mandarin and Cantonese are the two main dialects of China! Chinese (中文 Zhōngwén) is actually a group (language family) of 10 varieties of languages, many of which are completely unrelated to each other. Similar Western examples are the Germanic languages, Roman languages, etc. There are similarities in words, but for example, a Portuguese speaker does not naturally understand Italian. The varieties of Chinese differ mainly phonetically, but there are also variations in vocabulary and syntax. Languages in the group: Mandarin Wu Gan Xiang Min Hakka Yue Jin Huizhou Pingua In addition, each of these languages has several dialects. A comparative example is Brazilian Portuguese and Portuguese from Portugal. Mandarin is the official language of China and Taiwan, and is also one of the official languages of Singapore. It has several dialects (such as those in Brazil and Portugal), but the Beijing dialect is considered the official one, also called Standard Chinese (普通話 / 普通话 Pǔtōnghuà). Mandarin is a variant of the Chinese language spoken in most of northern and southwestern China. When considered as a separate language, as is often done in academic literature, Mandarin has more speakers than any other language. Cantonese is a dialect of Yue Chinese. It is the official language of Hong Kong, Guangdong and Macau, and in many overseas Chinese communities. To give you an idea of the differences with Mandarin, Mandarin has 4 tones, while Cantonese has 6 tones and uses Yale Romanization (which has nothing to do with pinyin). When you learn Mandarin, you will understand written Cantonese - fortunately, the writing is the same - but you will not have any idea of a conversation in Cantonese, so you can see the complexity and variety of the “Chinese” language. Cantonese uses some Chinese characters that do not exist in Mandarin and others with different meanings. Cantonese writing is only used in informal situations, such as letters between friends, internet forums or in popular literature. NCT fandom names: NCity - the group NCT and their fandom(s) Neos - all NCT members 127s - NCT 127 members Dreamies - Dream members Visions - WayV members Fandom names: NCTzens / czennies - NCT stans and fans NCTzen 127 / 127zens * - 127 stans and fans NCTzen Dream / Dreamzens * - Dream stans and fans WayZenNi - WayV stans and fans (some people also use weishennis, but some WayV fans don't use that because it's not official and the boys don't use it, it's a whole thing, just check this explanation or can lovely WayV stans on this sub explain to us below because I'm confused too). Pre-nct 2020, due to Wayv not interacting with NCT brand at all and not having the nct brand before their name, wayv fans kept saying wayv is not part of NCT, and demanded everyone to stop associating them with nct, they even didnt want the colour green to be the fandom colour since it is the same as nctzens colour and were using red instead. since wayzennie looks and sounds so much like czennies and nctzens, they went by using weishennies. (It is where washing machines came from lol) I highly recommend thes funny videos: [WayV-ariety] 2020 WayV (Mini) Awards [WayV-ariety] WINWIN keeping promise (Disney Princess Tea Party) | WINformation Ep.4 [WayV-log] Princess Ver. is loading WayV Bad Alive (Princess Ver.) Things You Didn't Notice In WayV 'Bad Alive' Princess Ver. Dance Video the words "wayv" and "variety show" doesn't mix well together WayV drawing will make you cry ... laughing | COPY & PASTE: DRAW [WayV-ariety] Let’s Workout Together! (Difficulty level) [WayV-ehind] 'WayV (Let me love u)' the time when wayv had a korean variety show WayV is still the most chaotic Nct unit Wayv is the most chaotic Nct unit 2 [WayV-ariety] Stop! Rewind! Dubbing Time!TEN X YANGYANG's Enjoy The Challenge! Ep.2 [WayV-log] Secret Santa 2019 wayv in a nutshell [WayV-ariety]: Take Your Worries Away what goes on in WayV’s mind... [WayV-ehind]'Turn Back Time (MV). MV Part.1 [WayV-ehind]'Turn Back Time (MV). MV Part.2 [WayV-ariety] It’s a Challenge, Not a Cooking (vs KUN) | TEN X YANGYANG's Enjoy The Challenge! Ep.3 this video will make you fall in love with all 7 members of wayv I also recommend you check out: TEN X WINWIN Choreography Rainbown - Lovely Rainbow V EP.3 (Ten and Winwin creating the Choreography of Lovely - ) [WayV-ehind] Rainbow V - TEN X WINWIN [Rainbow V] KUN X XIAOJUN Live: Red Bean/Red Bean (Fang Datong/Khalil Fong) [Rainbow V] LUCAS X HENDERY X YANGYANG Freestyle : Wow. (Post Malone) [Rainbow V] LUCAS X HENDERY X YANGYANG Freestyle : Wow. (Post Malone) Rainbow V EP.5 [WayV-ehind] Rainbow V - LUCAS X HENDERY X YANGYANG Yangyang: [STATION : NCT LAB] NCT U - Kun, Yangyang and Taeil - 'Rain Day' MV [Play V] LEONIDAS Cover | YANGYANG - Look Up At The Stars (Shawn Mendes) WayV-TEN & YANGYANG 'Low Low' MV YANGYANG - Way Back Home [Play V] Dance by YANGYANG | Christopher - My Heart (Choreo by RyuD) 210101 IMLAY 'Asteroid (Feat. YANGYANG of WayV)' SMTOWN LIVE 220820 'Asteroid' YANGYANG focus (IMLAY with YANGYANG of WayV) @ SMTOWN LIVE 2022 XiaoJun: [Leemujin Service] EP.15 WayV XIAOJUN - Make A Wish, Ashes, End of a Day, Thinking Out Loud WayV - KUN & XIAOJUN 'Back To You (English Ver.)' MV WayV - KUN & XIAOJUN ' (Back To You)' MV [Play V] EXO - For Life (English Ver.) (Cover by. XIAOJUN) Cover | XIAOJUN - (Lover) (Beyond) WayV XIAOJUN, I'll Pick you up [SMROOKIES/NCT CHINA] Xiao Dejun - Everything (Unedited Full Version) [Play V] (Sam Kim) - Who Are You (Cover by. XIAOJUN) Cover|RENJUN, XIAOJUN - (Unbreakable Love) (Eric) [Play V] XIAOJUN - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (Justin Bieber) Xiaojun singing Love Yourself by Justin Bieber - We Became A Family (Hendery, YangYang + Yubin) [4K/Premier] WayV Xiaojun XIAOJUN - Ending Scene Kun: [Play V] Sam Smith - How Do You Sleep? (Cover by. KUN) Cover|KUN, CHENLE - free love (HONNE) [Play V] KUN's MIDI Studio WayV - KUN & XIAOJUN ‘(Sleepless)’ Live Clip 'Sweet Dream' (Taeil, Kun, Jaehyun, Haechan, Chenle) Live Clip | NCT U WayV KUN & XIAOJUN - Beautiful(by Crush) Band LIVE Cover. | [it’s LIVE] Cover | KUN, TEN, XIAOJUN - Rim Table (Melt) (NONT TANONT) Hendery: [Play V] HENDERY - WuKong [Play V] HENDERY (헨더리) - WuKong - Acapella Ten: [Hit The Stage] NCT Ten becoming the devil, Devils Match 20160727 EP.01 NCT TEN 'DEVILS' Dance Practice _THE STATION ver. Hit The Stage (Action) Assassin NCT Ten's amazing powers! 160921 EP.9 Hit The Stage Win! NCT Ten Conducts Stage 160831 EP.6 Hit the Stage MNC Ten-Memories with Fender Stage 160928 EP.10 [Hit The Stage] (Sudden Crush) NCT TEN, Rom-Com’s Bible 20160810 EP [STATION] TEN (Dream In A Dream)' MV NCT TEN ( Dream In A Dream)' Dance Practice _THE STATION ver. WinWin: SM_NCT# 3. 7th Sense 161125 Day Day Up WINWIN - "Elegant Chinese Dance" x Henry Lau Winwin has beautiful vocals Winwin singing (Real clip) WINWIN SINGING! His singing voice is soooo beautiful i cried 『winwin직캠』心心相瘾King of hearts 【WINWIN董思成윈윈/NCT】Chinese folk dance class exam in Senior high school出道前北舞附中期末考试winwin cut nct winwin's t7s dance solo; a compilation 170408 Macau V chart awards - solo stage Winwin ver. [720HD] Winwin Traditional Dance || COMPILATION some of WinWin's Chinese dramas: ENG SUB《二十五小时恋爱 Sweet Games》Trailer 董思成 cut - 如月 杀青花絮 WINWIN cut - The Shadow behind the scenes
NCT U is all the members from all units come together to make music. It can be any number of members from Nct 127, Nct dream and wayv. NCT U is a rocational unit with different members
I'm also interested in Wayv and seeing you react to this guide was very helpful for me! thank u 😭I can't wait for you to react to "She a Wolf", it's soo good
NCT-U is made up of all the NCT members, they just add and subtract members from all the other sub-units depending on the concept for the song. NCT-U songs span a wide range of styles and genres and can include anywhere for all 25 current members or only 1 or 2 members. The U stands for United, but I also like to think of it as Universal because of the way the group never has a fixed number of members. This sub-unit is designed to be fluid, which means the group is constantly changing and rearranging its members with every song. NCT-U was the very first NCT sub-unit to debut and Ten -- along with Taeyong, Mark, Doyoung and Jaehyun -- was the first NCT members to debut as part of NCT. To understand why Mandarin and Cantonese is different you just have to hear someone speak Cantonese and someone speak Mandarin. It sounds way different. And most people who speak Mandarin can't understand Cantonese unless they have studied both languages or if Cantonese is their native language, etc. Cantonese is the native language of Hong Kong and Mandarin is one of the main languages of Mainland China. Just look up WayV speaking multiple languages and listen to the difference when Hendery and Xiaojun speak Cantonese Vs. when they speak Mandarin.
China has varies dialect like they are not pronounce the same. This may not familiar to most people. Mandarin is an official language while cantonese is a dialect use in the region like Hongkong Macao and a part of southern China like Guangdong ( Xiaojun hometown). My family was a Chinese migrant in Thailand. We came from Southern China too. But we use Tawchow dialect. I can not understand Mandarin or Cantonese at all. The writing has some similarity but pronounciation is completely different. By the way, Dream Plan the first WayV variety show on Youku channel is so fun. The most fun to watch. You may wanna check it out
Xiaojun actually named his dog Bella after the twilight character 😭 he is a huge fan of twilight and Harry Potter
I really recommend Xiaojun's Lee Mujin service episode! His vocals in the whole episode are just stunning, and he shows amazing range and versatility. You can tell he's super well trained and his ability to express emotions when he sings is even more impressive. That episode cemented him as my bias (those are the kinds of vocalists that get me haha, like Jonghyun and JayB).
To answer your qs about spoken/written chinese:
Chinese has a huge amount of dialects, since it is such a large and old country. Mandarin is the standard language - used in schools, govt. etc - while Cantonese is the most spoken other dialect, originating and common in the south of China (Guangdong province, plus Macau, Hong Kong etc.). Some dialects can be quite close in sound, more like an accent (e.g. the members sometimes tease WinWin for his Wenzhou dialect 'er' sounds) while others can be indistinguishable and need to be learnt separately - like Mandarin and Cantonese. But, most of these dialects are written with the same characters - using 'simplified Chinese'. So, Mandarin and Cantonese speakers could communicate with the written word, but not vocally.
But in case you wanted to be more confused, some places will speak the same/similar dialect but use different characters. Like Yangyang is from Taiwan, he speaks Mandarin, but they use traditional Chinese characters when reading and writing. There's more overlap here because, like it sounds, simplified Chinese was adapted from traditional Chinese to simplify, improve literacy, stuff like that. Here, simplified / traditional Chinese users can sometimes deduce what's being written in the other system when the simplification of character strokes is more intuitive, but it is different enough that you do have to actively learn the other system of characters to read well.
Mandarin and Cantonese are the two main dialects of China! Chinese (中文 Zhōngwén) is actually a group (language family) of 10 varieties of languages, many of which are completely unrelated to each other. Similar Western examples are the Germanic languages, Roman languages, etc. There are similarities in words, but for example, a Portuguese speaker does not naturally understand Italian. The varieties of Chinese differ mainly phonetically, but there are also variations in vocabulary and syntax.
Languages in the group:
Mandarin
Wu
Gan
Xiang
Min
Hakka
Yue
Jin
Huizhou
Pingua
In addition, each of these languages has several dialects. A comparative example is Brazilian Portuguese and Portuguese from Portugal. Mandarin is the official language of China and Taiwan, and is also one of the official languages of Singapore. It has several dialects (such as those in Brazil and Portugal), but the Beijing dialect is considered the official one, also called Standard Chinese (普通話 / 普通话 Pǔtōnghuà). Mandarin is a variant of the Chinese language spoken in most of northern and southwestern China. When considered as a separate language, as is often done in academic literature, Mandarin has more speakers than any other language.
Cantonese is a dialect of Yue Chinese. It is the official language of Hong Kong, Guangdong and Macau, and in many overseas Chinese communities. To give you an idea of the differences with Mandarin, Mandarin has 4 tones, while Cantonese has 6 tones and uses Yale Romanization (which has nothing to do with pinyin). When you learn Mandarin, you will understand written Cantonese - fortunately, the writing is the same - but you will not have any idea of a conversation in Cantonese, so you can see the complexity and variety of the “Chinese” language. Cantonese uses some Chinese characters that do not exist in Mandarin and others with different meanings. Cantonese writing is only used in informal situations, such as letters between friends, internet forums or in popular literature.
NCT fandom names:
NCity - the group NCT and their fandom(s)
Neos - all NCT members
127s - NCT 127 members
Dreamies - Dream members
Visions - WayV members
Fandom names:
NCTzens / czennies - NCT stans and fans
NCTzen 127 / 127zens * - 127 stans and fans
NCTzen Dream / Dreamzens * - Dream stans and fans
WayZenNi - WayV stans and fans (some people also use weishennis, but some WayV fans don't use that because it's not official and the boys don't use it, it's a whole thing, just check this explanation or can lovely WayV stans on this sub explain to us below because I'm confused too). Pre-nct 2020, due to Wayv not interacting with NCT brand at all and not having the nct brand before their name, wayv fans kept saying wayv is not part of NCT, and demanded everyone to stop associating them with nct, they even didnt want the colour green to be the fandom colour since it is the same as nctzens colour and were using red instead. since wayzennie looks and sounds so much like czennies and nctzens, they went by using weishennies. (It is where washing machines came from lol)
I highly recommend thes funny videos:
[WayV-ariety] 2020 WayV (Mini) Awards
[WayV-ariety] WINWIN keeping promise (Disney Princess Tea Party) | WINformation Ep.4
[WayV-log] Princess Ver. is loading
WayV Bad Alive (Princess Ver.)
Things You Didn't Notice In WayV 'Bad Alive' Princess Ver. Dance Video
the words "wayv" and "variety show" doesn't mix well together
WayV drawing will make you cry ... laughing | COPY & PASTE: DRAW
[WayV-ariety] Let’s Workout Together! (Difficulty level)
[WayV-ehind] 'WayV (Let me love u)'
the time when wayv had a korean variety show
WayV is still the most chaotic Nct unit
Wayv is the most chaotic Nct unit 2
[WayV-ariety] Stop! Rewind! Dubbing Time!TEN X YANGYANG's Enjoy The Challenge! Ep.2
[WayV-log] Secret Santa 2019
wayv in a nutshell
[WayV-ariety]: Take Your Worries Away
what goes on in WayV’s mind...
[WayV-ehind]'Turn Back Time (MV). MV Part.1
[WayV-ehind]'Turn Back Time (MV). MV Part.2
[WayV-ariety] It’s a Challenge, Not a Cooking (vs KUN) | TEN X YANGYANG's Enjoy The Challenge! Ep.3
this video will make you fall in love with all 7 members of wayv
I also recommend you check out:
TEN X WINWIN Choreography Rainbown - Lovely
Rainbow V EP.3 (Ten and Winwin creating the Choreography of Lovely - )
[WayV-ehind] Rainbow V - TEN X WINWIN
[Rainbow V] KUN X XIAOJUN Live: Red Bean/Red Bean (Fang Datong/Khalil Fong)
[Rainbow V] LUCAS X HENDERY X YANGYANG Freestyle : Wow. (Post Malone)
[Rainbow V] LUCAS X HENDERY X YANGYANG Freestyle : Wow. (Post Malone)
Rainbow V EP.5
[WayV-ehind] Rainbow V - LUCAS X HENDERY X YANGYANG
Yangyang:
[STATION : NCT LAB] NCT U - Kun, Yangyang and Taeil - 'Rain Day' MV
[Play V] LEONIDAS
Cover | YANGYANG - Look Up At The Stars (Shawn Mendes)
WayV-TEN & YANGYANG 'Low Low' MV
YANGYANG - Way Back Home
[Play V] Dance by YANGYANG | Christopher - My Heart (Choreo by RyuD)
210101 IMLAY 'Asteroid (Feat. YANGYANG of WayV)' SMTOWN LIVE
220820 'Asteroid' YANGYANG focus (IMLAY with YANGYANG of WayV) @ SMTOWN LIVE 2022
XiaoJun:
[Leemujin Service] EP.15 WayV XIAOJUN - Make A Wish, Ashes, End of a Day, Thinking Out Loud
WayV - KUN & XIAOJUN 'Back To You (English Ver.)' MV
WayV - KUN & XIAOJUN ' (Back To You)' MV
[Play V] EXO - For Life (English Ver.) (Cover by. XIAOJUN)
Cover | XIAOJUN - (Lover) (Beyond)
WayV XIAOJUN, I'll Pick you up
[SMROOKIES/NCT CHINA] Xiao Dejun - Everything (Unedited Full Version)
[Play V] (Sam Kim) - Who Are You (Cover by. XIAOJUN)
Cover|RENJUN, XIAOJUN - (Unbreakable Love) (Eric)
[Play V] XIAOJUN - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (Justin Bieber)
Xiaojun singing Love Yourself by Justin Bieber - We Became A Family (Hendery, YangYang + Yubin)
[4K/Premier] WayV Xiaojun XIAOJUN - Ending Scene
Kun:
[Play V] Sam Smith - How Do You Sleep? (Cover by. KUN)
Cover|KUN, CHENLE - free love (HONNE)
[Play V] KUN's MIDI Studio
WayV - KUN & XIAOJUN ‘(Sleepless)’ Live Clip
'Sweet Dream' (Taeil, Kun, Jaehyun, Haechan, Chenle) Live Clip | NCT U
WayV KUN & XIAOJUN - Beautiful(by Crush) Band LIVE Cover. | [it’s LIVE]
Cover | KUN, TEN, XIAOJUN - Rim Table (Melt) (NONT TANONT)
Hendery:
[Play V] HENDERY - WuKong
[Play V] HENDERY (헨더리) - WuKong - Acapella
Ten:
[Hit The Stage] NCT Ten becoming the devil, Devils Match 20160727 EP.01
NCT TEN 'DEVILS' Dance Practice _THE STATION ver.
Hit The Stage (Action) Assassin NCT Ten's amazing powers! 160921 EP.9
Hit The Stage Win! NCT Ten Conducts Stage 160831 EP.6
Hit the Stage MNC Ten-Memories with Fender Stage 160928 EP.10
[Hit The Stage] (Sudden Crush) NCT TEN, Rom-Com’s Bible 20160810 EP
[STATION] TEN (Dream In A Dream)' MV
NCT TEN ( Dream In A Dream)' Dance Practice _THE STATION ver.
WinWin:
SM_NCT# 3. 7th Sense
161125 Day Day Up WINWIN - "Elegant Chinese Dance" x Henry Lau
Winwin has beautiful vocals
Winwin singing (Real clip)
WINWIN SINGING! His singing voice is soooo beautiful i cried
『winwin직캠』心心相瘾King of hearts
【WINWIN董思成윈윈/NCT】Chinese folk dance class exam in Senior high school出道前北舞附中期末考试winwin cut
nct winwin's t7s dance solo; a compilation
170408 Macau V chart awards - solo stage Winwin ver. [720HD]
Winwin Traditional Dance || COMPILATION
some of WinWin's Chinese dramas:
ENG SUB《二十五小时恋爱 Sweet Games》Trailer
董思成 cut - 如月 杀青花絮 WINWIN cut - The Shadow behind the scenes
NCT U is all the members from all units come together to make music. It can be any number of members from Nct 127, Nct dream and wayv. NCT U is a rocational unit with different members
You should definitely check out Xiaojun’s Lee mujin service!!! It’s so legendary!!! He is also my bias clearly ( my pfp) :)
I'm also interested in Wayv and seeing you react to this guide was very helpful for me! thank u 😭I can't wait for you to react to "She a Wolf", it's soo good
NCT-U is made up of all the NCT members, they just add and subtract members from all the other sub-units depending on the concept for the song. NCT-U songs span a wide range of styles and genres and can include anywhere for all 25 current members or only 1 or 2 members. The U stands for United, but I also like to think of it as Universal because of the way the group never has a fixed number of members. This sub-unit is designed to be fluid, which means the group is constantly changing and rearranging its members with every song. NCT-U was the very first NCT sub-unit to debut and Ten -- along with Taeyong, Mark, Doyoung and Jaehyun -- was the first NCT members to debut as part of NCT.
To understand why Mandarin and Cantonese is different you just have to hear someone speak Cantonese and someone speak Mandarin. It sounds way different. And most people who speak Mandarin can't understand Cantonese unless they have studied both languages or if Cantonese is their native language, etc. Cantonese is the native language of Hong Kong and Mandarin is one of the main languages of Mainland China. Just look up WayV speaking multiple languages and listen to the difference when Hendery and Xiaojun speak Cantonese Vs. when they speak Mandarin.
China has varies dialect like they are not pronounce the same. This may not familiar to most people. Mandarin is an official language while cantonese is a dialect use in the region like Hongkong Macao and a part of southern China like Guangdong ( Xiaojun hometown). My family was a Chinese migrant in Thailand. We came from Southern China too. But we use Tawchow dialect. I can not understand Mandarin or Cantonese at all. The writing has some similarity but pronounciation is completely different.
By the way, Dream Plan the first WayV variety show on Youku channel is so fun. The most fun to watch. You may wanna check it out
Chenle is pronounced chun - luh and he is a member of NCT Dream :)
@@megxoxo127 thank you! That name was just kind of thrown at me randomly and I was like “Am I supposed to know this person?” 🤣🤣
@@mrshoneyweiss hah np kun is like his honorary father they have a rlly cute father-son dynamic
Can’t wait for more wayv!!🙌🏻
cantonese and mandarin are simply different languages.