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Chinese (Filipino/Tagalog: Intsik (Colloquial) / Tsino (Formal) / Tsekwa (Derogatory); Philippine Hokkien simplified Chinese: 咱人; traditional Chinese: 咱儂; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lán-nâng / Lán-lâng / Nán-nâng, Mandarin simplified Chinese: 华人; traditional Chinese: 華人; pinyin: Huárén)—generalized term referring to any and all ...
Philippine Hokkien [f] is a dialect of the Hokkien language of the Southern Min branch of Min Chinese descended directly from Old Chinese of the Sinitic family, primarily spoken vernacularly by Chinese Filipinos in the Philippines, where it serves as the local Chinese lingua franca [8] [9] within the overseas Chinese community in the Philippines and acts as the heritage language of a majority ...
Having a Hispanized Filipino-Chinese surname signifies that a Chinese person has become Catholic. Some adopted the surnames of their Spanish godparents, while others combined modified Chinese names and added honorifics such as -co, -son, and -zon at the end. Many of them intermarried with Filipinos and were integrated into Philippine society.
Philippine kinship uses the generational system in kinship terminology to define family. It is one of the most simple classificatory systems of kinship. One's genetic relationship or bloodline is often overridden by the desire to show proper respect that is due in the Philippine culture to age and the nature of the relationship, which are considered more important.
Whenever wills clashed, it was expected, and even legally enforced, [4] that the will of the superior family member would prevail over the will of a junior family member. [3] In the Chinese kinship system: Maternal and paternal lineages are distinguished. For example, a mother's brother and a father's brother have different terms.
The following is a list of notable Chinese Filipinos (Filipinos of Chinese descent). [1] [2] López family of Iloilo, is a wealthy and influential Filipino family of business magnates, media proprietors, politicians, and philanthropists descended from Filipino-Chinese merchant Basílio López (c. 1800–c. 1875). Tommy Abuel (born 1942), actor ...
The pre-colonial native Filipino script called baybayin was derived from the Brahmic scripts of India and first recorded in the 16th century. [13] According to Jocano, 336 loanwords in Filipino were identified by Professor Juan R. Francisco to be Sanskrit in origin, "with 150 of them identified as the origin of some major Philippine terms."
"row" — objects which form lines (words 詞 / 词, etc.); occupations in a field (idiom, spoken language); 行 could also be pronounced as xíng, see below. 盒: hé hap6: hap6 objects in a small "box" or case (e.g. mooncakes, tapes) 戶 / 户: 户: hù wu6: wu6 households (户 is common in handwritten Traditional Chinese) — household ...