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The ancestral hall of the Xiao clan (蕭氏宗祠) in Yangxin County, Hubei. Xiao (/ ʃ aʊ /; [1] Chinese: 蕭) is a Chinese-language surname.In the Wade-Giles system of romanization, it is rendered as Hsiao, which is commonly used in Taiwan.
Xiao (flute) (Chinese: 箫), a Chinese end-blown flute; Xiao (rank) (Chinese: 校), a rank used for field officers in the Chinese military; Xiao County (Chinese: 萧县), in Anhui, China; Xiao Mountain (Chinese: 崤山), a range of mountains in Henan, China, or the surrounding Xiao region; Xiao River (Chinese: 潇水), a tributary of the Xiang ...
In Chinese mythology, the xiao is the name of several creatures, including the xiao (Chinese: 囂; pinyin: xiāo; Wade–Giles: hsiao 1) "a long-armed ape" or "a four-winged bird" and shanxiao (Chinese: 山魈; pinyin: shānxiāo) "mischievous, one-legged mountain spirit".
A ceramic xiao flute player excavated from an Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220 AD) tomb in Sichuan province Several dongxiao in the G-key. A Taiwanese xiao. The xiao (simplified Chinese: 箫; traditional Chinese: 簫; pinyin: xiāo; Wade–Giles: hsiao 1; Jyutping: siu1, pronounced [ɕi̯ɑ́ʊ̯]) is a Chinese vertical end-blown flute.
Xiao'erjing was used to annotate foreign language Islamic documents (in languages like Persian) using the Chinese language. [7] Xiao'erjing was used mostly by Muslims who could not read Chinese characters. It was imperfect due to various factors. The differing Chinese dialects would require multiple different depictions with Xiao'erjing.
A Chinese social media platform has grown so popular in the US that it's this week's most downloaded iPhone app — and it's become the site of a sudden East-meets-West cultural exchange.
Empress Xiao (蕭皇后, personal name unknown; c. March 566 [1] – 17 April 648 [2]), formally Empress Min, was an empress of the Chinese Sui dynasty. Her husband was Emperor Yang of Sui . Background
The app’s Chinese name translates to “Little Red Book,” which the company claims is from the platform’s origins as a bundle of PDF shopping guides (and not a reference to the famous book ...