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Title page of Book from the Sky, in pseudo-Chinese characters.The characters “天書” do not appear anywhere in the book. A Book from the Sky (simplified Chinese: 天书; traditional Chinese: 天書; pinyin: Tiānshū) is a book produced by Chinese artist Xu Bing in the style of fine editions from the Song and Ming dynasties, but filled entirely with meaningless glyphs designed to resemble ...
The only [verification needed] ambiguity with this unique systemized method is on the urinary bladder meridian, where the outer line of 14 points found on the back near the spine are inserted in one of two ways; following the last point of the inner line along the spine (會陽) and resuming with the point found in the crease of the buttocks ...
A point of contact (POC) or single point of contact (SPOC) is a person or a department serving as the coordinator or focal point of information concerning an activity or program. A POC is used in many cases where information is time-sensitive and accuracy is important.
Tiangong (Chinese: 天宫; pinyin: Tiāngōng; lit. 'Heavenly Palace'), [5] [6] officially the Tiangong space station [7] (Chinese: 天宫空间站; pinyin: Tiāngōng kōngjiānzhàn), is a permanently crewed space station constructed by China and operated by China Manned Space Agency. [8]
Taiyishenshu is used to predict events such as wars or the meaning of supernovae. One form of Taiyishenshu popularized over the centuries predicts personal fortunes. Genghis Khan, founder of the Mongol Empire, referred to Taiyi at one point to decide whether or not his planned invasion of Japan would succeed. When the Taiyi count indicated that ...
Point contact diode, a type of semiconductor diode; Point of contact, a person serving as the focal point of information concerning an activity; Point-contact transistor, the first type of solid-state electronic transistor ever constructed, in 1947; Quantum point contact, a narrow constriction between two wide electrically conducting regions
The Legend of Sealed Book (Chinese: 天书奇谭; pinyin: Tian Shu Qi Tan) is a Chinese animated feature film produced by Shanghai Animation Film Studio.It is also referred to as Book Which Came from the Sky, Tales about the Heavenly Book and Secrets of the Heavenly Book.
The Chinese not having conducted maritime explorations of the North Atlantic during imperial times, the expression 冰山一角 'one corner of an ice mountain' is a rare example of a chengyu that emerged in the early 20th century after contact with the West as a translation of the expression "tip of the iceberg," thus sharing both their literal ...