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  2. Aya (given name) - Wikipedia

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    Aya is a male or female name with multiple meanings in many different languages. In Old German, Aya means "sword". In Old German, Aya means "sword". Aya (あや, アヤ) is a common female Japanese given name meaning "design", "colorful" or "beautiful".

  3. Graphic pejoratives in written Chinese - Wikipedia

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    Some historical Chinese characters for non-Han peoples were graphically pejorative ethnic slurs, where the racial insult derived not from the Chinese word but from the character used to write it. For instance, written Chinese first transcribed the name Yáo "the Yao people (in southwest China and Vietnam)" with the character for yáo 猺 "jackal".

  4. Chinese character education - Wikipedia

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    The structure of Chinese characters is complex and an effective method for teaching students to write is needed. The teaching methods are as follow: [16] In ancient China, students wrote with a brush pen. The order of teaching students to write is: first write in middle-sized Chinese regular script, then in big or small regular characters.

  5. Written Chinese - Wikipedia

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    Written Chinese is a writing system that uses Chinese characters and other symbols to represent the Chinese languages. Chinese characters do not directly represent pronunciation, unlike letters in an alphabet or syllabograms in a syllabary .

  6. Chinese characters - Wikipedia

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    Chinese characters [a] are logographs used to write the Chinese languages and others from regions historically influenced by Chinese culture. Of the four independently invented writing systems accepted by scholars, they represent the only one that has remained in continuous use. Over a documented history spanning more than three millennia, the ...

  7. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Chinese) - Wikipedia

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    The Chinese abbreviated name, e.g. Ningwu Railway, should still be mentioned in the first sentence of the article as a secondary name of the expressway/railway, and should be made a redirect link to the article. This Chinese abbreviated name can be freely used in the article itself and in other articles. The rule above applies only to article ...

  8. Chinese character structures - Wikipedia

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    Strokes (笔画; 筆劃; bǐhuà) are the smallest building units of Chinese characters. When writing a Chinese character, the trace of a dot or a line left on the writing material (such as paper) from pen-down to pen-up is called a stroke. [4] Strokes combine with each other in a Chinese character in different ways.

  9. Chinese exclamative particles - Wikipedia

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    Exclamative particles are used as a method of recording aspects of human speech which may not be based entirely on meaning and definition. Specific characters are used to record exclamations, as with any other form of Chinese vocabulary, some characters exclusively representing the expression (such as 哼), others sharing characters with alternate words and meanings (such as 可).