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  2. Literary and colloquial readings - Wikipedia

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    Literary readings in modern Standard Chinese are usually native pronunciations more conservative than colloquial readings. [3] This is because they reflect readings from before Beijing was the capital, [5] e.g. from the Ming dynasty. Most instances where there are different literary and colloquial readings occur with characters that have ...

  3. Tommy and Tuppence - Wikipedia

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    In their early appearances, they are portrayed as typical young people of the 1920s, [4] and the stories and settings have a more pronounced period-specific flavor than other stories featuring more popular Christie characters. As they age, they are revealed to have raised three children – twins Deborah and Derek and an adopted daughter, Betty.

  4. Kanji - Wikipedia

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    For example, the kanji character 桜, meaning "cherry", is sorted as a ten-stroke character under the four-stroke primary radical 木 meaning "tree". When there is no obvious radical or more than one radical, convention governs which is used for collation. Other kanji sorting methods, such as the SKIP system, have been devised by various authors.

  5. Chinese character classification - Wikipedia

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    1935) presents three principles of character function adapted from earlier proposals by Tang Lan (1901–1979) and Chen Mengjia (1911–1966), [13] with semantographs describing all characters whose forms are wholly related to their meaning, regardless of the method by which the meaning was originally depicted, phonographs that include a ...

  6. Older Adults Want More Movies and TV With Characters Their ...

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    A new study released Friday by the organization finds that most adults age 50 and older are more likely to support movies and TV programs that included characters similar to them in age and life ...

  7. Chinese character sounds - Wikipedia

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    Homographs. The pronunciation and meaning of the two characters are different, but the glyphs happened to be the same. For example: 胜: pronounced as shèng, meaning "win, victory"; an organic compound and peptide is also written as "胜", but pronounced as hēng.

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  9. The Cast of “Outer Banks” Are Older Than Their Characters and ...

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    The cast of Outer Banks continues to follow the tradition of older actors playing teens. Find out how old the actors of the Netflix hit are. ... 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Mail. Sign in ...