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Jian Yi (Chinese: 简艺; pinyin: jiǎn yì) is a Chinese independent filmmaker, social innovator and food activist who currently conducts research at the Harvard Law School. His films Bamboo Shoots and Super, Girls! won a number of international film festival awards.
Korean clans are groups of Korean people that share the same paternal ancestor. They are indicated by the combination of a bongwan (Korean: 본관; lit. place of origin) and a family name. [1] Korean clans distinguish clans that happen to share the same family name. The bongwan identifies descent groups by geographic place of origin. [2]
Other close advisers to the emperor included Jian Yi (Minister of Personnel from 1402–1422 and 1423–1435) [13] and Xia Yuanji (Minister of Revenue from 1402–1421 and 1424–1430). [7] [13] Even after the Xuande Emperor's death, the composition of the most influential officials and the grand secretaries remained unchanged. As a result, the ...
Chen's Records is the chronologically final text of the "Four Histories" (四史), which together influenced and served as a model for Korean and Japanese official histories. [11] The Records are important to the research of early Korean (삼국지 Samguk ji) and Japanese history (三国志 Sangokushi).
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Sino-Korean words constitute a large portion of South Korean vocabulary, the remainder being native Korean words and loanwords from other languages, such as Japanese and English to a lesser extent. Sino-Korean words are typically used in formal or literary contexts, [5] and to express abstract or complex ideas. [7]
Yi-soo, also spelled Yi-su or Lee-soo, is a Korean unisex given name.Its meaning depends on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 35 hanja with the reading "yi" and 67 hanja with the reading "soo" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names.