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The extension of word meanings. The pronunciation of some extended meaning is different from the pronunciation of the original meaning. For example: 背: refers to the back (of a person), pronounced bèi; when extended to the verb 背 (carry on the back), it is pronounced bēi.
A Chinese vowel diagram or Chinese vowel chart is a schematic arrangement of the vowels of the Chinese language, which usually refers to Standard Chinese.The earliest known Chinese vowel diagrams were made public in 1920 by Chinese linguist Yi Tso-lin with the publication of his Lectures on Chinese Phonetics, three years after Daniel Jones published the famous "cardinal vowel diagram" in 1917.
In 1980, it was ratified by the State Council as the official script of the Liangshan dialect of the Nuosu Yi language of Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, and consequently is known as Liangshan Standard Yi Script (涼山規範彝文 Liángshān guīfàn Yíwén). There are 756 basic glyphs based on the Liangshan dialect, plus 63 for ...
Standard Mandarin Pinyin Table The complete listing of all Pinyin syllables used in Standard Chinese, along with native speaker pronunciation for each syllable. Pinyin table Pinyin table, syllables are pronounced in all four tones. Pinyin Chart for Web Pinyin Chart for Web, every available tones in the Chinese language included.
Thus, the image expresses a wish that its recipient do well on his exams and become successful. Later a variation on the gibbons and egret motif appears through the substitution of deer for egrets. In mandarin the word "鹿" (lù), meaning deer, is homophonous with "鷺" (lù), meaning egret, and so the image achieves the same pun. [26]
Pronunciation and Meaning of All the Scriptures [11] Sounds and meanings for all [the words in the] scriptures [12] Alternate Yiqiejing yinyi titles include the Dazang yinyi 大藏音義 "Pronunciation and Meaning in the Tripiṭaka", and to distinguish it from Xuanying's version, the Huilin yinyi 慧琳音義 "Huilin's Pronunciation and Meaning".
A sign in alphabetic Hani Pinyin (top), syllabic Yi (middle), and Chinese (bottom), on Potou Elementary School in Jianshui County, Yunnan. Note that the Yunnan Hani Pinyin romanization "JEIF·SYU·XEIF POL·TEQ·XAL POL·TEQ XAO·XOQ" shown at top for the Southern Yi (Hani) language used here in Yunnan province is different from the Sichuan Yi Pinyin romanization "JIEP·SHO·XIEP PO·TEP·XUO ...
Analogous to how the word alphabet is derived from the names of the first two letters alpha and beta, the name bopomofo derives from the first four syllabographs in the system's conventional lexicographic order: ㄅ, ㄆ, ㄇ, and ㄈ.