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Due to differences between Northern Fujian dialects, the Kienning Romization can only accurately reflect the pronunciation of words from the Jian'ou dialect, and do not necessarily correspond perfectly with other dialects, nonetheless the Jian'ou dialect is used as the predominant standard when writing the Northern Min language and could be used to represent the other Northern Min dialects.
Jian Yong (簡雍) (fl. 180s–210s), counselor of Liu Bei in the Late Eastern Han dynasty; Jianzhi (簡之), courtesy name of Yao Silian (姚思廉; died 637), official of the Chinese dynasties Sui dynasty and Tang dynasty; Sir Yuet-keung Kan GBE JP (Chinese: 簡悅強, 1913–2012), Hong Kong banker, politician and lawyer
In August 2018, Google Search added an English and Hindi dictionary for mobile users in India with an option to switch to the English only dictionary. [22] A "learn to pronounce" option was added to the English dictionary in December 2018 which shows how a word is pronounced with its non-phonemic pronunciation respelling and audio in different ...
Bible in Jian'ou Romanised (), published by the British and Foreign Bible Society.The Jian'ou dialect (Northern Min: Gṳ̿ing-é-dī / 建甌事; Chinese: simplified Chinese: 建瓯话; traditional Chinese: 建甌話; pinyin: Jiàn'ōuhuà), also known as Kienow dialect, is a local dialect of Northern Min Chinese spoken in Jian'ou in northern Fujian province.
The character jian (監/监) is usually read as jiān, but is read as the less-commonly encountered pronunciation jiàn when used in the name Jianli. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Jianli center city name is Rongcheng ( 容城 镇 ), the native people prefer to call Chengguan.
The jian (Mandarin Chinese:, Chinese: 劍, English approximation: / dʒ j ɛ n / jyehn, Cantonese:) is a double-edged straight sword used during the last 2,500 years in China. The first Chinese sources that mention the jian date to the 7th century BCE, during the Spring and Autumn period, [1] one of the earliest specimens being the Sword of Goujian.
The English Pronouncing Dictionary (EPD) was created by the British phonetician Daniel Jones and was first published in 1917. [1] It originally comprised over 50,000 headwords listed in their spelling form, each of which was given one or more pronunciations transcribed using a set of phonemic symbols based on a standard accent.
As a surname, Chien is the Wade–Giles romanisation of a number of surnames spelled Jian in Hanyu Pinyin, as well as a variant spelling of surnames spelled Qian in Pinyin (Ch'ien in Wade Giles): [1] [2] Jiǎn (簡; 简), adopted as a surname by some descendants of Xu Juju , who was later named Xu Jianpo (續簡伯).