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Sui Shengsheng (born 1980), Chinese volleyball player Sonia Sui ( 隋棠 ; born 1980), Taiwanese actress, television host and model Sui Xinmei ( 隋新梅 ; born 1965), Chinese shot putter
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.
Sui, meaning "years of age" in Chinese age reckoning; Sui or mizu, 水, meaning "Water" in Japanese, one of the elements in the Japanese system of five elements and representing the fluid, flowing, formless things in the world; Sui (粋), an ideal in Japanese aesthetics similar to iki; Sui, a local name for the Wangi-wangi white-eye, a bird
This is a list of Chinese-English translators. Lists and biographies of translators of contemporary literature (fiction, essays, poetry) are maintained by Paper Republic , Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (MCLC), and on the Renditions Translator database.
The meaning added through the loan of homonymous sounds is the phonetic-loan meaning (simplified Chinese: 假借义; traditional Chinese: 假借義; pinyin: jiǎ jiè yì). For example, the original meaning of "其 (qí)" is "dustpan", and its pronoun usage of "his, her, its" is a phonetic-loan meaning.
Chinese translations can be roughly divided into two categories: official translation names and folk (or non-governmental; popular) translation names. Since the Chinese language is spoken in several countries and territories around the world, most importantly the People's Republic of China (mainland China), Hong Kong, Macau and the Republic of ...
The ban, which was due to go into effect Sunday, stems from a law that requires TikTok's Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell its U.S. assets in order to continue operating in the United States.
官話字母; Guānhuà zìmǔ, developed by Wang Zhao (1859–1933), was the first alphabetic writing system for Chinese developed by a Chinese person. This system was modeled on Japanese katakana, which he learned during a two-year stay in Japan, and consisted of letters that were based on components of Chinese characters.