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  2. Dragon Li - Wikipedia

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    The Dragon Li is a recently established Chinese breed of domestic cat (also called Chinese Li Hua or China Li Hua as a standardized breed, depending on breed registry).It was developed from a common landrace of cats in China, known as 貍花貓, Pinyin: líhuā māo, literally 'leopard cat patterned cat' (sometimes shortened to 花貓 huā māo or 貍貓 lí māo); the native cats are featured ...

  3. Maneki-neko - Wikipedia

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    This cat is also prevalent in China domestically, and is usually referred to as simplified Chinese: 招财猫; traditional Chinese: 招財貓; pinyin: zhāocáimāo; Jyutping: ziu1 coi4 maau1. Hikone City 's mascot, Hikonyan , a famous mascot in Japan, was created based on the folklore of Ii Naotaka and the maneki-neko of Gōtoku-ji Temple.

  4. Chinese character meanings - Wikipedia

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    猫: māo, cat, the name of a domestic animal that can catch mice. The morpheme "māo" has one meaning, and the Chinese character "猫" also has one meaning. According to statistics, more than half of Chinese characters belong to this type. [6] Some Chinese characters correspond to multiple morphemes. For example: 姑: gū, noun, father's ...

  5. Mandarin Chinese profanity - Wikipedia

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    The fact that many insults are prefaced with the Mandarin Chinese word for dog attest to the animal's low status: gǒuzǎizi (狗崽子) = dog pup (English equivalent: "son of a bitch") gǒu pì (狗屁) = bullshit, nonsense (lit. "dog fart"); in use as early as 1750 in the Qing dynasty novel The Scholars.

  6. List of Chinese quotations - Wikipedia

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    He pioneered "Socialism with Chinese characteristics" and Chinese economic reform, also known as the "socialist market economy". 不管黑猫白猫,捉到老鼠就是好猫。 Bùguǎn hēi māo bái māo, zhuō dào lǎoshǔ jiùshì hǎo māo "No matter if it is a white cat or a black cat; as long as it can catch mice, it is a good cat."

  7. List of Chinese classifiers - Wikipedia

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    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). The last column gives the classifier ...

  8. Mo (Chinese zoology) - Wikipedia

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    The modern Standard Chinese name daxiongmao (大熊貓, lit. "big bear cat", giant panda), which was coined from the taxonomic genus Ailuropoda from Neo-Latin ailuro-"cat". The related name xiaoxiongmao ( 小熊貓 "small bear cat") refers to the lesser or red panda ( Ailurus fulgens ) native to the eastern Himalayas and southwestern China .

  9. List of Chinese loanwords in Indonesian - Wikipedia

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    Word Indonesian Meaning Chinese Character (Traditional) Chinese Character Chinese Variant Chinese Transliteration Chinese Meaning Note Ref baba, babah: addressing Chinese male 爸爸: 爸爸: Mandarin: bàba father bacang, bakcang: glutinous rice dumpling filled with meat 肉 糉: 肉 粽: Min Nan: bak cang sticky rice dumpling: batau: mantou ...