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Longevity is commonly recognized as one of the Five Blessings (wǔfú 五福 – longevity, wealth, health, love of virtue, a peaceful death) of Chinese belief [3] that are often depicted in the homophonous rendition of five flying bats because the word for "bat" in Chinese (fú 蝠) sounds like the word for "good fortune" or "happiness" (fú ...
Wufu (Chinese: 五福), meaning the five blessings, is a concept that signify a grouping of certain good fortunes and luck in Chinese culture. The number five is regarded as an auspicious number in Chinese traditions and closely associated with the Five Elements ( Wu Xing , Chinese: 五行 ), which are essential for a good life as well as the ...
Double Happiness is a ligature, "囍" composed of 喜喜 – two copies of the Chinese character 喜 (xǐ ⓘ) literally meaning joy, compressed to assume the square shape of a standard Chinese character (much as a real character may consist of two parts), and is pronounced simply as xǐ or as a polysyllabic Chinese character, being read as 双喜 (shuāngxǐ).
Suicide Notes Laid on the Table (遺書、公開。, Isho, Kōkai.) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Toutarou Minami. It was serialized in Square Enix's Monthly Gangan Joker magazine from September 2017 to January 2022. A live-action film adaptation is set to premiere in Japanese theaters in January 2025.
Cultivation is a Chinese fantasy subgenre that focuses on the main character overcoming struggles and becoming powerful, oftentimes immortal (仙 xian), in the end. The main character cultivates (progresses) themselves through training or magic. Cultivation contrasts western hero fantasy in that the main character is not gifted their powers ...
Characters that fall in the "political or religious" category are given the "general category" So, which is the catch-all category for "Symbol, other", i.e. anything considered a "symbol" which does not fall in any of the three other categories of Sm (mathematical symbols), Sc (currency symbols) or Sk (phonetic modifier symbols, i.e. IPA signs ...
The List of Frequently Used Characters in Modern Chinese (simplified Chinese: 现代汉语常用字表; traditional Chinese: 現代漢語常用字表; pinyin: Xiàndài Hànyǔ Chángyòngzì Biǎo) is a list of 3,500 frequently-used Chinese characters, which are further divided into two levels: 2,500 frequently-used characters and 1,000 less frequently-used characters.
A Chinese character can alternatively be input by form-based encoding. Most Chinese characters can be divided into a sequence of components in writing order. There are a few hundred basic components, [111] much less than the number of characters. By representing each component with an English letter and putting them in writing order of the ...