Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary (Vietnamese: từ Hán Việt, Chữ Hán: 詞漢越, literally 'Chinese-Vietnamese words') is a layer of about 3,000 monosyllabic morphemes of the Vietnamese language borrowed from Literary Chinese with consistent pronunciations based on Middle Chinese. Compounds using these morphemes are used extensively in cultural ...
The Hmong in China are often happy or proud to be known as Miao while most Hmong outside China find it offensive. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] Little is known about the origin of the Miao term and the people it referenced historically, since the Han used it loosely to identify non-Han in Southern China until the Tang Dynasty when evidence of its association ...
The Mảng (Chinese: 莽人; pinyin: Mángrén; Vietnamese: Mảng) are an ethnic group living primarily in Lai Châu, northwestern Vietnam, where they are one of Vietnams' 54 officially recognized ethnic groups.
Huang (Chinese: 黃/皇) used in Mandarin; Hwang (Korean: 황; Hanja: 黃/皇) used in Korean; Huỳnh or Hoàng used in Vietnamese. Huỳnh is the cognate adopted in Southern and most parts of Central Vietnam because of a naming taboo decree banning the surname Hoàng, due to similarity between the surname and the name of Lord Nguyễn Hoàng.
A painting of a gentry scholar with two courtesans, by Tang Yin, c. 1500. The four occupations (simplified Chinese: 士农工商; traditional Chinese: 士農工商; pinyin: Shì nóng gōng shāng), or "four categories of the people" (Chinese: 四民; pinyin: sì mín), [1] [2] was an occupation classification used in ancient China by either Confucian or Legalist scholars as far back as the ...
Mong or Meng (Chinese: 蒙; pinyin: Méng; Wade–Giles: Meng) is a Chinese surname.It is a xing (姓) (ancestral surname).The surname is typically romanised as Meng in Mandarin and Mong or Mung in Cantonese.
Máng (芒, read Wáng according to Sima Zhen) was the ninth king of the semi-legendary Xia dynasty.He possibly ruled 18 years. [1] He was also known as Huang (荒). [2]Emperor Si Mang established a Sinking Sacrifice Ceremony (沉祭 Chen Ji) in which three common livestock animals (a cow, a pig & a sheep) & a memorial jade were sunk into the Yellow River as offerings to water spirits for ...
dog cǎp chase ta-ɲo ACC -cat ɵɔ cǎp ta-ɲo dog chase ACC-cat "The dog chases the cat." ʔu 1SG ʔo give lam rice ʔæŋ-ciəj DAT -chicken ʔu ʔo lam ʔæŋ-ciəj 1SG give rice DAT-chicken "I give rice to the chicken." References ^ Mảng at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) ^ a b Gao (2003), p. 1 ^ "Người Mảng". Trang tin điện tử của Ủy ban Dân tộc (in ...