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Yu (fish) Fishes are a symbol of wealth in Chinese culture. [ 3]: 124 The Chinese character for fish is yu ( traditional Chinese: 魚; simplified Chinese: 鱼; pinyin: yú ). It is pronounced with a different tone in modern Chinese, 裕 (yù) means "abundance". Alternatively, 餘, meaning "over, more than", is a true homophone, so the common ...
Traditional Chinese Simplified Chinese Pinyin Notes Double steaming / double boiling: 燉: 炖: dùn: a Chinese cooking technique to prepare delicate and often expensive ingredients. The food is covered with water and put in a covered ceramic jar, and is then steamed for several hours. Red cooking: 紅燒: 红烧: hóngshāo
jou2. "set" — general mass-classifier for sets of objects (sets of, e.g. batteries 電池 / 电池, planets 行星, variables 變量 / 变量, data 数据 / 數據, objects 對象 / 对象, words 詞 / 词, or any sensible thing you want to name). A set is usually assumed to have two or more objects.
Both the mythic Chinese Peng and Kun names involve word play. Peng ( 鵬) was anciently a variant Chinese character for feng ( 鳳) in fenghuang (鳳凰 "Chinese phoenix" ca. 100 CE Shuowen Jiezi ); Kun 鯤 originally meant "fish roe; fry; spawn " (ca. 200 BCE Erya ). Synonyms of Peng include Dapeng (大鵬 "Big Peng", "Great Peng") and ...
Hanyu Pinyin, or simply pinyin, is the most common romanization system for Standard Chinese. In official documents, it is referred to as the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet. Hanyu ( 汉语; 漢語) literally means ' Han language'—that is, the Chinese language—while pinyin literally means 'spelled sounds'. Pinyin is the official system used in ...
Apples symbolize peace because the word for apple ("ping") is a homonym of the word for peace. Fish 鱼 魚 Yú: Is usually eaten or merely displayed on the eve of Chinese New Year. The pronunciation of fish makes it a homophone for "surpluses" (simplified Chinese: 余; traditional Chinese: 餘; pinyin: yú). Garlic: 蒜 Suàn
Gai lan. Gai lan (Brassica oleracea var. alboglabra) is the Cantonese name and jie lan is the Mandarin name for a vegetable that is also known as Chinese broccoli or Chinese kale. kakak. older sibling. addressing someone slightly older. 哥哥. 哥哥. Min Nan. koko.
African glass catfish ( Pareutropius debauwi) African lungfish (genus Protopterus) Aholehole (genus Kuhlia and family Kuhliidae) Airbreathing catfish (family Clariidae) Airsac catfish (genus Heteropneustes) Alaska blackfish. Albacore. Alewife. Alfonsino.