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  2. Chinese characters - Wikipedia

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    Chinese characters "Chinese character" written in traditional (left) and simplified (right) forms Script type Logographic Time period c. 13th century BCE – present Direction Left-to-right Top-to-bottom, columns right-to-left Languages Chinese Japanese Korean Vietnamese Zhuang (among others) Related scripts Parent systems (Proto-writing) Chinese characters Child systems Bopomofo Jurchen ...

  3. Radical 37 - Wikipedia

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    Radical 37 or radical big (大部) meaning "big" or "very" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes. In the Kangxi Dictionary , there are 132 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical .

  4. Chinese character meanings - Wikipedia

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    A character with only one meaning is a monosemous character, and a character with two or more meanings is a polysemous character. According to statistics from the "Chinese Character Information Dictionary", among the 7,785 mainland standard Chinese characters in the dictionary, there are 4,139 monosemous characters and 3,053 polysemous characters.

  5. Modern Chinese characters - Wikipedia

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    A character with only one meaning is a monosemous character, and a character with two or more meanings is a polysemous character. According to statistics from the Chinese Character Information Dictionary , among the 7,785 mainland standard Chinese characters in the dictionary, there are 4,139 monosemous characters, 3,053 polysemous characters ...

  6. Zhonghua Zihai - Wikipedia

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    The previous character dictionary published in China was the Hanyu Da Zidian, introduced in 1989, which contained 54,678 characters.In Japan, the 2003 edition of the Dai Kan-Wa jiten has some 51,109 characters, while the Han-Han Dae Sajeon completed in South Korea in 2008 contains 53,667 Chinese characters (the project having lasted 30 years, at a cost of 31,000,000,000 KRW or US$25 million [4 ...

  7. Literary and colloquial readings - Wikipedia

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    For example, the character 魏 had a initial in Middle Chinese, and in literary readings, there is a null initial. In colloquial readings it is pronounced /ŋuɛ/ in Songjiang . [ 16 ] About 100 years ago, it was pronounced /ŋuɛ/ in Suzhou [ 17 ] and Shanghai, and now it is /uɛ/ .

  8. Big-character poster - Wikipedia

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    Big-character posters (Chinese: 大字报; lit. 'big-character reports') are handwritten posters displaying large Chinese characters, usually mounted on walls in public spaces such as universities, factories, government departments, and sometimes directly on the streets. They were used as a means of protest, propaganda, and popular communication.

  9. List of Commonly Used Standard Chinese Characters - Wikipedia

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    The list also offers a table of correspondences between 2,546 Simplified Chinese characters and 2,574 Traditional Chinese characters, along with other selected variant forms. This table replaced all previous related standards, and provides the authoritative list of characters and glyph shapes for Simplified Chinese in China. The Table ...