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  2. Fu (character) - Wikipedia

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    When displayed as a Chinese ideograph, fu is often displayed upside-down on diagonal red squares. The reasoning is based on a wordplay: in nearly all varieties of Chinese, the words for 倒; dào; 'upside-down' and 到; dào; 'to arrive' are homophonous. Therefore, the phrase 'upside-down fu ' sounds nearly identical to the phrase 'good luck ...

  3. List of Chinese symbols, designs, and art motifs - Wikipedia

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    Name Symbolism Images Bats Bat (fu) Homophone for good fortune and symbol for longevity and happiness. [3] Bats flying amongst clouds Bats with Chinese character "wan"(Swastika) "Ten thousand-fold wishes for good fortune and happiness.” [3] Five bats (wufu) Wishes for the Five Blessings. [3] Red bats (hongfu) Wide spread of good fortune [3 ...

  4. Bopomofo - Wikipedia

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    Bopomofo is written in the same stroke order rule as Chinese characters. ㄖ is written with three strokes, unlike the character from which it is derived (Chinese: 日; pinyin: rì), which has four strokes. ㄧ can be written as a vertical line or a horizontal line (); both are accepted forms. Traditionally, it should be written as a horizontal ...

  5. 96 Shortcuts for Accents and Symbols: A Cheat Sheet

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    Both computer symbols and accents fall under the umbrella of “special characters,” but the special characters keyboard is just your regular keyboard—with a few new hacks. ... To use alt key ...

  6. Homophonic puns in Standard Chinese - Wikipedia

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    Fú dào le - 福到了 "fortune has arrived" and 福倒了 "fortune is upside down", the latter simply referring to the character 福 (fú), which when displayed upside down denotes one's good fortune has arrived. It is common practice to hang the character upside-down on doors during the Spring festival.

  7. Dayi method - Wikipedia

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    The keyboard layout for the Dayi input method contains keys for many of the Kangxi radicals in its entirety. This means that a single keystroke accounts for the left half or right half of many Chinese characters. For instance, "車" in "輸" (6AJN) is represented by "6". This allows for characters to be represented by 4 keys or less. [1]

  8. Chinese characters - Wikipedia

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    Chinese characters "Chinese character" written in traditional (left) and simplified (right) forms Script type Logographic Time period c. 13th century BCE – present Direction Left-to-right Top-to-bottom, columns right-to-left Languages Chinese Japanese Korean Vietnamese Zhuang (among others) Related scripts Parent systems (Proto-writing) Chinese characters Child systems Bopomofo Jurchen ...

  9. Radical 182 - Wikipedia

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    In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 182 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical. In Taoist cosmology , 風 (wind) is the nature component of the Bagua diagram 巽 Xùn.