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Sui, meaning "years of age" in Chinese age reckoning; Sui or mizu, 水, meaning "Water" in Japanese, one of the elements in the Japanese system of five elements and representing the fluid, flowing, formless things in the world; Sui (粋), an ideal in Japanese aesthetics similar to iki; Sui, a local name for the Wangi-wangi white-eye, a bird
Cristiano Ronaldo Ronaldo with Al Nassr in 2023 Personal information Full name Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro Date of birth (1985-02-05) 5 February 1985 (age 40) Place of birth Funchal, Madeira, Portugal Height 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) Position(s) Forward Team information Current team Al Nassr Number 7 Youth career 1992–1995 Andorinha 1995–1997 Nacional 1997–2002 Sporting CP Senior career ...
The Sui script (Sui: le1 sui3, [1] Simplified Chinese: 水书, Traditional Chinese: 水書, Pinyin: Shuǐshū) or Shuishu, is a logographic writing system with some pictographic characters that can be used to write the Sui language (Wei 2003:xxix). [2]
The basic format for a head entry gives the character, the Instant Index System code, the pronunciation(s) in Simplified GR, the part or parts of speech, optionally other speech levels (e.g., "sl." for slang), English translation equivalents for the head character and usage examples of polysyllabic compounds, phrases, and idioms, subdivided by ...
Sui Shengsheng (born 1980), Chinese volleyball player Sonia Sui ( 隋棠 ; born 1980), Taiwanese actress, television host and model Sui Xinmei ( 隋新梅 ; born 1965), Chinese shot putter
The Sui script (Sui: le1 sui3, [6] Simplified Chinese: 水书, Traditional Chinese: 水書, Pinyin: Shuǐshū) is a logographic writing system with some pictographic characters that can be used to write the Sui language (Wei 2003:xxix). [7]
The meaning added through the loan of homonymous sounds is the phonetic-loan meaning (simplified Chinese: 假借义; traditional Chinese: 假借義; pinyin: jiǎ jiè yì). For example, the original meaning of "其 (qí)" is "dustpan", and its pronoun usage of "his, her, its" is a phonetic-loan meaning.
In China, letters of the English alphabet are pronounced somewhat differently because they have been adapted to the phonetics (i.e. the syllable structure) of the Chinese language. The knowledge of this spelling may be useful when spelling Western names, especially over the phone, as one may not be understood if the letters are pronounced as ...