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The meaning of this name in Turkish, is " Five cities," and the term 五城 Wu-ch'eng, meaning also "Five cities," occurs repeatedly in the Yuan shi, as a synonym of Bie-shi-ba-li. The committee however transformed the name into 巴實伯里 Ba-shi-bo-li, and state that Ba-shi in the language of the Mohammedans means "head" and bo-li "kidneys."
Quizlet's primary products include digital flash cards, matching games, practice electronic assessments, and live quizzes. In 2017, 1 in 2 high school students used Quizlet. [ 4 ] As of December 2021, Quizlet has over 500 million user-generated flashcard sets and more than 60 million active users.
Yi Xing also owed much to the scholarly followers of Ma Jun, who had employed horizontal jack-wheels and other mechanical toys worked by waterwheels. [4] The Daoist Li Lan was an expert at working with water clocks, creating steelyard balances for weighing water that was used in the tank of the clepsydra, [4] providing more inspiration for Yi Xing.
According to Xing Kao , or Surname Investigation, in the Spring and Autumn period, Dafu Han Xuanzi of the State of Jin, along with his family and offspring resided in Xing county (now east of Wen county of Henan Province), and later his descendants had the surname Xing after the county name.
Tang Dynasty Armillary Sphere (唐代渾儀Tang Dai Hun Xi) (黃道遊儀Huang dao you xi) Yi Xing and Liang Lingzan: 683–727 AD: based on Han Dynasty Celestial Globe, recalibrated locations of 150 stars, determined that stars are moving - Tang Dynasty Indian Horoscope Chart (梵天火羅九曜) Yi Xing: 683–727 AD: simple diagrams of the ...
The Tang (湯) family name traces its lineage from Tang of Shang, the first ruler of the Shang dynasty. [3] In modern times the character can also mean " soup " or " broth ". In Cantonese the surname is pronounced Tong or Thong, and in Fujian, it is usually pronounced Theng or Teng.
Yixing (simplified Chinese: 宜兴; traditional Chinese: 宜興; pinyin: Yíxīng) is a county-level city administered under the prefecture-level city of Wuxi in southern Jiangsu province, China, and is part of the Yangtze River Delta.
"Cantonese" is prototypically used in English to refer to the variety of Yue in Guangzhou, [4] but it is also to refer to Yue as a whole. [5] To avoid confusion, academic texts may refer to the larger branch as "Yue", [ 6 ] [ 7 ] following the pinyin system based on Standard Chinese , and either restrict "Cantonese" to the Guangzhou variety, or ...