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For articles on words and phrases related to a specific area of China, or to a specific spoken variant, please refer to one of the subcategories. Subcategories This category has the following 14 subcategories, out of 14 total.
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.
007 – A variant of the 996 working hour system.Represents 00:00 hours (12:00 am) to 00:00 hours, 7 days per week (pinyin: línglíngqī); 1314 – "Forever", usually preceded by a phrase such as "I love you" or the similar. 1314 (pinyin: yīsānyīsì) represents 一生一世 (pinyin: yīshēng yīshì, "one lifetime, throughout one's life").
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a Chinese cooking technique to prepare delicate and often expensive ingredients. The food is covered with water and put in a covered ceramic jar, and is then steamed for several hours. Red cooking: 紅燒: 红烧: hóngshāo: several different slow-cooked stews characterized by the use of soy sauce and/or caramelised sugar and various ...
”The path that can be walked is not always the path; the name that can be named is not always the name.” (Literally: "Path can walk, not always path; Name can name, not always name.") 千里之行﹐始於足下。 Qian li zhi xing, shi yu zu xia. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
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