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The characteristics of the pronunciation of modern Chinese characters include A character usually records one syllable. (There are a very small number of exceptions, such as 呎 (yīngchǐ), 哩 (yīnglǐ), 瓩(qiānwǎ), 花兒 (huā er)). Most of the glyphs of modern Chinese characters cannot accurately represent sounds.
Modern Han Chinese consists of about 412 syllables [1] in 5 tones, so homophones abound and most non-Han words have multiple possible transcriptions. This is particularly true since Chinese is written as monosyllabic logograms, and consonant clusters foreign to Chinese must be broken into their constituent sounds (or omitted), despite being thought of as a single unit in their original language.
It is thus also sometimes translated as a Chinese jacket. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] After criticism of the misleading name appeared in various Chinese media, some of its designers and some government officials began to call the garment the "new tangzhuang" [ 6 ] [ 7 ] or " APEC jackets ", [ 11 ] [ 12 ] but neither name lasted. [ 13 ]
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Many non-native Chinese speakers have difficulties mastering the tones of each character, but correct tonal pronunciation is essential for intelligibility because of the vast number of words in the language that only differ by tone (i.e. are minimal pairs with respect to tone). Statistically, tones are as important as vowels in Standard Chinese.
Chinese numerals are words and characters used to denote numbers in written Chinese. Today, speakers of Chinese languages use three written numeral systems : the system of Arabic numerals used worldwide, and two indigenous systems.
It is part of the Spanish Inditex group (which also owns brands such as Zara, Massimo Dutti, Pull&Bear, Oysho, Uterqüe, Stradivarius and Zara Home). [2] The company was created in April 1998 as a new store and 'fast-fashion' concept, aimed at a young target market. As of January 2022, Bershka has over 852 stores in 74 countries.
Zara was established by Amancio Ortega Gaona in 1975. Their first shop was in central A Coruña, in Galicia, Spain, where the company is still based.They initially called it 'Zorba' after the classic 1964 film Zorba the Greek, but after learning there was a bar with the same name two blocks away, rearranged the letters to read 'Zara'.