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Wu was born in Lianshui, Jiangsu province, and later moved to Huai'an. [1] [2] [3] Wu's father, Wu Rui, had a good primary education and "shown an aptitude for study", [1] but ultimately spent his life as an artisan because of his family's financial difficulties. Nevertheless, Wu Rui continued to "devote himself to literary pursuits", and as a ...
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Wu Chinese on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Wu Chinese in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
Ng (pronounced []; English approximation often / ə ŋ / əng or / ɪ ŋ / ing or / ɛ ŋ / eng) is both a Cantonese transliteration of the Chinese surnames 吳/吴 (Mandarin Wú) and 伍 (Mandarin Wǔ) and also a common Hokkien transcription of the surname 黃/黄 (Pe̍h-ōe-jī: N̂ɡ, Mandarin Huáng).
The Chen Clan Academy in Guangzhou, China. Chen descends from the legendary sage king Emperor Shun from around 2200 BC via the surname Gui (). [9] [10]A millennium after Emperor Shun, when King Wu of Zhou established the Zhou dynasty (c. 1046 BC), he enfeoffed his son-in-law Gui Man, also known as Duke Hu of Chen or Chen Hugong (陈胡公).
Several other, less common Chinese surnames are also transliterated into English as "Wu", but with different tones: 武 Wǔ , 伍 Wǔ , 仵 Wǔ , 烏 Wū (also Wù ), 鄔 Wū and 巫 Wū . Wu (or Woo or Wou ) is also the Cantonese transliteration of the Chinese surname 胡 (Mandarin Hu ), used in Hong Kong, and by overseas Chinese of Cantonese ...
Xu Chan (徐蕆), a 12th-century scholar, who wrote a preface to the 韻補 Yunbu of 吳域 Wu Yu (circa 1100–1154) in which he first proposed the xiesheng hypothesis Xu Wu (徐武; born 1991), a Chinese football player playing for Shaanxi Chang'an Athletic in the China League
Wu Cheng'en and Journey to the West is a Chinese television series about the life of Wu Cheng'en and his inspiration for writing the 16th-century novel Journey to the West. [1] The series was directed by Kan Weiping [ 2 ] and consists of a total of 45 episodes shot in high definition, each 45 minutes long and containing 10 minutes of 3-D effects.
Journey to the West by Wu Cheng-en: Country of origin: China Canada: Original languages: Mandarin English: No. of episodes: 26 (52 segments) [1] 1 special [2] Production; Animator: Suzhou Hong Yang Cartoon Production Co., Ltd. (uncredited) Running time: 22 minutes (11 minutes per segment) 75 minutes (special) [2] Production companies: China ...