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Tongzhi is a form of style used in China that took on different meanings in the 20th century depending on context. It was first introduced into vernacular Chinese by Sun Yat-sen as a way of describing his followers.
A page from the Yiqiejing yinyi, the oldest extant Chinese dictionary of Buddhist technical terminology – Dunhuang manuscripts, c. 8th century. There are two types of dictionaries regularly used in the Chinese language: 'character dictionaries' (字典; zìdiǎn) list individual Chinese characters, and 'word dictionaries' (辞典; 辭典; cídiǎn) list words and phrases.
One of the prototypes of "right" names for barbarians is the very ancient ethnonym Qiang, which shows up in the earliest forms of Chinese writing after 1200 BCE and is still with us today as the name of a non-Chinese people to the west of central China. It was originally a rendering of a horned being, and scholars debate whether this referred ...
The word Kwoon 館 or Guǎn 館 is a cultural term that is common in spoken and written Chinese.In Cantonese, it is sometimes also transliterated as Kwan. [1] [2] This term may carry different meanings, depending on the local culture and the geographical location of whomever speaks or writes it.
These euphemisms are also used as verbs. For example, instead of saying something has been censored, one might say "it has been harmonized" (Chinese: 被和谐了) or "it has been river-crabbed" (Chinese: 被河蟹了). The widespread use of "river crab" by Chinese netizens represents a sarcastic defiance against official discourse and censorship.
The explosive Chinese stock rally over the last month finally lost steam today after a press conference by Chinese officials failed to sustain investor exuberance over previously announced ...
Radical 191 or radical fight (鬥部) meaning "fight" is one of the 8 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 10 strokes. In the Kangxi Dictionary , there are 23 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical .
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