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  2. Xi (surname) - Wikipedia

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    席 (Xí; see Chinese Wikipedia article) 習 / 习 (Xí; see Chinese Wikipedia article) This is the most common surname romanized "Xi", making up approximately 0.01% of the population of Mainland China. 隰 (Xí) 郤 (Xì; see Chinese Wikipedia article) 郗 (Xī; see Chinese Wikipedia article) Xi is spelled "Hsi" in Wade-Giles.

  3. Chinese respelling of the English alphabet - Wikipedia

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    In China, letters of the English alphabet are pronounced somewhat differently because they have been adapted to the phonetics (i.e. the syllable structure) of the Chinese language. The knowledge of this spelling may be useful when spelling Western names, especially over the phone, as one may not be understood if the letters are pronounced as ...

  4. Xi Jinping - Wikipedia

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    Xi Jinping [a] (born 15 June 1953) is a Chinese politician who has been the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), and thus the paramount leader of China, since 2012.

  5. Help:IPA/Mandarin - Wikipedia

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    This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Mandarin on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Mandarin in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.

  6. Chinese name - Wikipedia

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    Chinese names are personal names used by individuals from Greater China and other parts of the Sinophone world. Sometimes the same set of Chinese characters could be chosen as a Chinese name, a Hong Kong name, a Japanese name, a Korean name, a Malaysian Chinese name, or a Vietnamese name, but they would be spelled differently due to their varying historical pronunciation of Chinese characters.

  7. Pinyin table - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Romanization of Chinese - Wikipedia

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    Identifying the specific pronunciation of a character within a specific context [a] (e.g. 行 as xíng (to walk; behaviour, conduct) or háng (a store)). Recitation of Chinese text in one Chinese variety by literate speakers of another mutually unintelligible one, e.g. Mandarin and Cantonese. Learning Classical or Modern Chinese.

  9. Double Happiness (calligraphy) - Wikipedia

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    Double Happiness is a ligature, "囍" composed of 喜喜 – two copies of the Chinese character 喜 (xǐ ⓘ) literally meaning joy, compressed to assume the square shape of a standard Chinese character (much as a real character may consist of two parts), and is pronounced simply as xǐ or as a polysyllabic Chinese character, being read as 双喜 (shuāngxǐ).