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Mandarin Chinese, a Rare card
Mandarin is the largest branch of the Sinitic languages.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 83
- DEF
- 82
- Power
- 165
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 470,000
Power 165 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Mandarin Chinese quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Mandarin Chinese card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Many varieties of Mandarin, such as those of the ______ and the Lower Yangtze, are not mutually intelligible with the Beijing dialect.
Answer
Southwest. Many varieties of Mandarin, such as those of the Southwest and the Lower Yangtze, are not mutually intelligible with the Beijing dialect. From the Mandarin Chinese article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Kyiv. Kyiv 92 · Basque language 87 · Mandarin Chinese 83 · Counties of England 78 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Mandarin varieties are natively spoken by 70 percent of all Chinese speakers, spread over a large geographical area that stretches from Yunnan in the southwest to Xinjiang in the northwest and Heilongjiang in the northeast.
- Its spread is generally attributed to the overall greater ease of travel in the North China Plain compared to the more mountainous south, combined with the relatively recent spread of northern varieties to frontier areas.
- Many varieties of Mandarin, such as those of the Southwest and the Lower Yangtze, are not mutually intelligible with the Beijing dialect.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Mandarin Chinese article was read about 470,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 83 and blocks with 82: each hit it takes is cut by 33 %.
How to get Mandarin Chinese
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Mandarin Chinese (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : LiliCharlie (user name), CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
