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Wu was born in Lianshui, Jiangsu province, and later moved to Huai'an. [1] [2] [3] Wu's father, Wu Rui, had a good primary education and "shown an aptitude for study", [1] but ultimately spent his life as an artisan because of his family's financial difficulties. Nevertheless, Wu Rui continued to "devote himself to literary pursuits", and as a ...
Xu Chan (徐蕆), a 12th-century scholar, who wrote a preface to the 韻補 Yunbu of 吳域 Wu Yu (circa 1100–1154) in which he first proposed the xiesheng hypothesis; Xu Wu (徐武; born 1991), a Chinese football player playing for Shaanxi Chang'an Athletic in the China League
Several other, less common Chinese surnames are also transliterated into English as "Wu", but with different tones: 武 Wǔ , 伍 Wǔ , 仵 Wǔ , 烏 Wū (also Wù ), 鄔 Wū and 巫 Wū . Wu (or Woo or Wou ) is also the Cantonese transliteration of the Chinese surname 胡 (Mandarin Hu ), used in Hong Kong, and by overseas Chinese of Cantonese ...
The surname is sometimes romanized as Ang, Eng, Ing and Ong in the United States and Ung in Australia. The Mandarin version of Ng is sometimes romanized as Woo or Wu. In Vietnam, the corresponding surname is Ngô. In Cambodia, the corresponding surname is Oeng. [specify]
Wu was elected to the Legislative Yuan in January 2024 via the Taiwan People's Party list for proportional representation, and has served as secretary-general of the TPP caucus. [8] As a legislator, he continued advocating for educational and economic policy proposals to consider Taiwan's strong generation, [ 7 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] and has discussed ...
The Commission on the Unification of Pronunciation, led by Wu Zhihui from 1912 to 1913, created a system called Zhuyin Zimu, [4] which was based on Zhang Binglin's shorthand. It was used as the official phonetic script to annotate the sounds of the characters in accordance with the Old National Pronunciation . [ 6 ]
Wu Cheng was born in 1249 in Fuzhou, Jiangxi, into a poor family with a scholarly heritage. His early training was in the Zhu Xi (1130-1200) lineage, but he was also exposed to the idea of harmonizing the Zhu Xi teachings with those of Lu Xiangshan (1139-1193), and he also had an affinity for southern Daoism.
Wu Cheng (Wuyue) (893–965), chancellor of the Wuyue Kingdom; Wu Cheng (philosopher) (1249–1333), philosopher during the Song and Yuan dynasties; Wu Cheng, one of the fictional bearers of the mantle of the White Dragon in DC Comics