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Wu (simplified Chinese: 吴语; traditional Chinese: 吳語; pinyin: Wúyǔ; Wugniu and IPA: 6 wu-gniu 6 [ɦu˩.nʲy˦] (Shanghainese), 2 ghou-gniu 6 [ɦou˨.nʲy˧] ()) is a major group of Sinitic languages spoken primarily in Shanghai, Zhejiang province, and parts of Jiangsu province, especially south of the Yangtze River, [2] which makes up the cultural region of Wu.
Qian Qianyi (1582–1664), a Chinese official, scholar and social historian of the late Ming dynasty. Shao Mi (1592-1642) a Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet during the Ming dynasty. Zhang Dai (1597–1679), Ming writer, historian and biographer. Wu Weiye (1609–1671) was an author and poet in Classical Chinese poetry.
Several other, less common Chinese surnames are also transliterated into English as "Wu", but with different tones: 武 Wǔ , 伍 Wǔ , 仵 Wǔ , 烏 Wū (also Wù ), 鄔 Wū and 巫 Wū . Wu (or Woo or Wou ) is also the Cantonese transliteration of the Chinese surname 胡 (Mandarin Hu ), used in Hong Kong, and by overseas Chinese of Cantonese ...
Wu (traditional Chinese: 吳; simplified Chinese: 吴; pinyin: Wú) refers to a region in China centered on Lake Tai in Jiangnan (the region south of the Yangtze River). [1] The Wu region was historically part of the ancient Yang Province in southeastern China. The name "Wu" came from the names of several historical kingdoms based in that area.
Wu (Chinese: 吳; pinyin: Wú; Middle Chinese *ŋuo < Eastern Han Chinese: *ŋuɑ [5]), known in historiography as Eastern Wu or Sun Wu, was a dynastic state of China and one of the three major states that competed for supremacy over China in the Three Kingdoms period.
Wu (Chinese: 伍; pinyin: Wǔ; Jyutping: Ng5) is a Chinese surname.It is the 89th name on the Hundred Family Surnames poem. [1] It means ‘five’ in Chinese, an alternative form of the character 五. [2]
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A speaker of Siyi Yue Chinese providing examples of differences between Siyi Yue and Cantonese. When the Chinese government removed the prohibition on emigration in the mid-19th century, many people from rural areas in the coastal regions of Fujian and Guangdong emigrated to Southeast Asia and North America.