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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.
In the tables, the first two columns contain the Chinese characters representing the classifier, in traditional and simplified versions when they differ. The next four columns give pronunciations in Standard (Mandarin) Chinese, using pinyin; Cantonese, in Jyutping and Yale, respectively; and Minnan (Taiwan).
Mandarin Chinese is the most popular dialect, and is used as a lingua franca across China. Linguists classify these varieties as the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family . Within this broad classification, there are between seven and fourteen dialect groups, depending on the classification.
我 wǒ I 给 gěi give 你 nǐ you 一本 yìběn a 书 shū book [我給你一本書] 我 给 你 一本 书 wǒ gěi nǐ yìběn shū I give you a book In southern dialects, as well as many southwestern and Lower Yangtze dialects, the objects occur in the reverse order. Most varieties of Chinese use post-verbal particles to indicate aspect, but the particles used vary. Most Mandarin ...
a story about Hu Shih debating the merits of Written vernacular Chinese over Classical Chinese (selection 15). [4]: 362–363 a translation of the legend of the construction of Windsor Guildhall by Sir Christopher Wren. [4]: 370–371 an inspirational essay about the conditions in New York City schools written by Liu Yong. [4]: 378–379
Comparisons have been made to a 1986 Newsweek cover and featured article that said "women who weren't married by 40 had a better chance of being killed by a terrorist than of finding a husband". [ 1 ] [ 63 ] Newsweek eventually apologized for the story and in 2010 launched a study that discovered 2 in 3 women who were 40 and single in 1986 had ...
Cantonese and Mandarin are the most popular forms of Chinese spoken in the area. Economic growth in the People's Republic of China has given mainland Chinese more opportunities to emigrate. A 2011 survey showed that 60% of Chinese millionaires plan to emigrate, [40] mostly to the United States or Canada.
See as example Category:English words. This category is for articles on words that are specifically of Mandarin origin, or specifically related to Mandarin speaking regions of China . For words generally related to China, or that are not specific to any of the spoken variants , please refer to the parent category Chinese words and phrases .