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The Mandarin Promotion Council (now called National Languages Committee) was established in 1946 by Chief Executive Chen Yi to standardize and popularize the usage of Mandarin in Taiwan. The Kuomintang heavily discouraged the use of Southern Min and other non-Mandarin languages, portraying them as inferior, [ 28 ] [ 29 ] and school children ...
Good Morning, Sir! ( Chinese : 早安老师 !) is a Singaporean Chinese-language drama series. The series stars Li Nanxing , Chen Liping , Zhu Houren , Hong Huifang , Xia Chuan , Aileen Tan , Madeline Chu , Hong Peixing , Jin Yinji and Lin Tianlong .
to say three in the morning and four in the evening always changing (new meaning), a change without any substantive difference (original meaning) See Zhuangzi: 井底之蛙 (jǐng dǐ zhī wā) a frog in the bottom of the well a person with limited outlook See Zhuangzi: 磨杵成針 (mó chǔ chéng zhēn) grind an iron bar down to a fine needle
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Standard Chinese (simplified Chinese: 现代标准汉语; traditional Chinese: 現代標準漢語; pinyin: Xiàndài biāozhǔn hànyǔ; lit. 'modern standard Han speech') is a modern standard form of Mandarin Chinese that was first codified during the republican era (1912–1949).
Exclamative particles are used as a method of recording aspects of human speech which may not be based entirely on meaning and definition. Specific characters are used to record exclamations, as with any other form of Chinese vocabulary, some characters exclusively representing the expression (such as 哼), others sharing characters with alternate words and meanings (such as 可).
我 wǒ I 给 gěi give 你 nǐ you 一本 yìběn a 书 shū book [我給你一本書] 我 给 你 一本 书 wǒ gěi nǐ yìběn shū I give you a book In southern dialects, as well as many southwestern and Lower Yangtze dialects, the objects occur in the reverse order. Most varieties of Chinese use post-verbal particles to indicate aspect, but the particles used vary. Most Mandarin ...
Romanized General Chinese has distinct symbols for the onsets (many of them digraphs, and a few trigraphs) and the rimes distinguished by any of the control dialects. For example, it retains the final consonants p, t, k, and the distinction between final m and n, as these are found in several modern dialects, such as Cantonese.