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In 1980, it was ratified by the State Council as the official script of the Liangshan dialect of the Nuosu Yi language of Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, and consequently is known as Liangshan Standard Yi Script (涼山規範彝文 Liángshān guīfàn Yíwén). There are 756 basic glyphs based on the Liangshan dialect, plus 63 for ...
Loanwords have entered written and spoken Chinese from many sources, including ancient peoples whose descendants now speak Chinese. In addition to phonetic differences, varieties of Chinese such as Cantonese and Shanghainese often have distinct words and phrases left from their original languages which they continue to use in daily life and sometimes even in Mandarin.
individual things, people — generic measure word (usage of this classifier in conjunction with any noun is generally accepted if the person does not know the proper classifier) 根: gēn gan1: gan1 kun thin, slender, pole, stick objects (needles 針 / 针, pillars 支柱, telegraph poles, matchsticks, etc.); strands 絲 / 丝 (e.g. hair ...
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.
The first book devoted to the study of Chinese particles, 《語助》, was written by Lu Yi-Wei (盧以緯) in the period of the Yuan dynasty (1271–1368). Later important works include 《助字辨略》 (Some Notes on the Helping Words) by Liu Qi (劉淇) and 《經傳釋詞》 (Explanations of the Articles Found in the Classics) by Wang Yin-Zhi (王引之), both published during the Qing ...
A sign in alphabetic Hani Pinyin (top), syllabic Yi (middle), and Chinese (bottom), on Potou Elementary School in Jianshui County, Yunnan. Note that the Yunnan Hani Pinyin romanization "JEIF·SYU·XEIF POL·TEQ·XAL POL·TEQ XAO·XOQ" shown at top for the Southern Yi (Hani) language used here in Yunnan province is different from the Sichuan Yi Pinyin romanization "JIEP·SHO·XIEP PO·TEP·XUO ...
Loloish is the traditional name for the family in English. Some publications avoid the term under the misapprehension that Lolo is pejorative, but it is the Chinese rendition of the autonym of the Yi people and is pejorative only in writing when it is written with a particular Chinese character (one that uses a beast, rather than a human, radical), a practice that was prohibited by the Chinese ...
yi radical hxuo ꉔ u+a4a0 ꒠ yi radical tat ꄡ u+a4a1 ꒡ yi radical ga ꇤ u+a4a2 ꒢ yi radical zup ꊥ u+a4a3 ꒣ yi radical cyt ꋊ u+a4a4 ꒤ yi radical ddur ꅐ u+a4a5 ꒥ yi radical bur ꀱ u+a4a6 ꒦ yi radical gguo ꈠ u+a4a7 ꒧ yi radical nyop ꑘ u+a4a8 ꒨ yi radical tu ꄲ u+a4a9 ꒩ yi radical op ꀒ u+a4aa ꒪ yi radical jjut ...