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  2. May you live in interesting times - Wikipedia

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    Despite being so common in English as to be known as the "Chinese curse", the saying is apocryphal, and no actual Chinese source has ever been produced. The most likely connection to Chinese culture may be deduced from analysis of the late-19th-century speeches of Joseph Chamberlain , probably erroneously transmitted and revised through his son ...

  3. Bopomofo - Wikipedia

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    Bopomofo is the predominant phonetic system in teaching, reading and writing in elementary school in Taiwan. In elementary school, particularly in the lower years, Chinese characters in textbooks are often annotated with Bopomofo as ruby characters as an aid to learning.

  4. Chinese dictionary - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. 75 “Good Morning” Texts That Won't Get You Left on Read All Day

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    Here are 75 good morning text ideas for your partner, whether you're going for cute, sexy, dirty, low-key, or sweet. 75 “Good Morning” Texts That Won't Get You Left on Read All Day Skip to ...

  6. List of Chinese dictionaries - Wikipedia

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    ABC Chinese-English Dictionary: 1996: First Chinese dictionary collated in single-sort alphabetical order of pinyin, John DeFrancis: A Chinese-English Dictionary: 1892: Herbert Allen Giles' bestselling dictionary, 2nd ed. 1912 A Dictionary of the Chinese Language: 1815–1823: First Chinese-English, English-Chinese dictionary, Robert Morrison

  7. Traditional Chinese timekeeping - Wikipedia

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    They are morning ; midmorning, ; noon, ; afternoon ; and evening . [9] As a 10-part system, the gēng are strongly associated with the 10 celestial stems, especially since the stems are used to count off the gēng during the night in Chinese literature. [9]

  8. Send One of These Good Morning Messages to Someone Special - AOL

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    Every morning is a good morning when I get to be in love with you. I am so grateful that I get to say good morning to you every day for the rest of my life. I dreamt of you all night and woke up ...

  9. Standard Chinese - Wikipedia

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    Hong Kong written Chinese, used for formal written communication in Hong Kong and Macau, is a form of Standard Chinese that is read aloud with the Cantonese reading of characters. Like other Sinitic languages, Standard Chinese is a tonal language with topic-prominent organization and subject–verb–object (SVO) word order. Compared with ...