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Ai is the pinyin and Wade–Giles romanization of the Chinese surname 艾. It is listed 334th in the Song dynasty classic text Hundred Family Surnames . [ 1 ] As of 2008, it is the 215th most common surname in Taiwan, shared by 400,000 people.
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 ...
The ancient Greek nymphē in the first line can mean "nymph", but also "bride" or "young woman". [4] Thus Melinoë is described as such not in order to be designated as a divinity of lower status, but rather as a young woman of marriageable age; the same word is applied to Hecate and Tethys (a Titaness) in their own Orphic hymns. [11]
Ai, one of the main characters in the anime and eroge game Popotan. Ai (Tick! Tack!), a character in the visual novel Tick! Tack!. Ai, a character in Tawawa on Monday. Ai Amano, the main character in the manga and anime series Video Girl Ai. Ai Doruyashi, a rival in the video game Yandere Simulator; Ai Ebihara, a character in Persona 4.
A Mandarin Chinese and Miao mixed language Maojia: 猫家话: 貓家話: A Qo-Xiong Miao and Chinese dialects mixed language Shaozhou Tuhua: 韶州土话: 韶州土話: A group of distinctive Chinese dialects in South China, including Yuebei Tuhua and Xiangnan Tuhua. It incorporates several Chinese dialects, as well as Yao languages. Tangwang ...
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.
As in the case of the Manchu language, the Daur word Niaken is essentially an ethnonym, and the proper way to refer to the country of the Han Chinese (i.e., "China" in a cultural sense) is Niaken gurun, while niakendaaci-is a verb meaning "to talk in Chinese".
Taishanese; Native to: China, overseas communities particularly in United States and Canada: Region: Sze Yup, the Pearl River Delta; United States: historic Chinese communities in Chinatown, San Francisco, other parts of the San Francisco Bay Area of California such as in the San Jose and Oakland areas, Chinatown, Boston and nearby Quincy, Massachusetts, and New York City, Seattle, Washington ...