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According to "Chinese Character Information Dictionary": [23] The 7,785 Chinese characters of the dictionary belong to 414 syllables regardless of tones, among which, there are 22 syllables without homophones, 392 syllables with homophones. Syllable yi has the largest number of characters, with a total of 131 homophones.
Nuosu or Nosu (ꆈꌠꉙ, transcribed as Nuo su hxop), also known as Northern Yi, Liangshan Yi, and Sichuan Yi, is the prestige language of the Yi people; it has been chosen by the Chinese government as the standard Yi language (Chinese: 彝语) and, as such, is the only one taught in schools, both in its oral and written forms.
A sign in alphabetic Hani Pinyin (top), syllabic Yi (middle), and Chinese (bottom), on Potou Elementary School in Jianshui County, Yunnan. Note that the Yunnan Hani Pinyin romanization "JEIF·SYU·XEIF POL·TEQ·XAL POL·TEQ XAO·XOQ" shown at top for the Southern Yi (Hani) language used here in Yunnan province is different from the Sichuan Yi Pinyin romanization "JIEP·SHO·XIEP PO·TEP·XUO ...
Classical Yi – which is an ideographic script like the Chinese characters, but with a very different origin – has not yet been encoded in Unicode, but a proposal to encode 88,613 Classical Yi characters was made in 2007 (including many variants for specific regional dialects or historical evolutions. They are based on an extended set of ...
The third person singular pronoun 伊 (yi) (he/she/it) or the derived phrase 伊講 (yi kaon) ("he says") can appear at the end of a sentence. This construction, which appears to be unique to Shanghainese, [ 74 ] is commonly employed to project the speaker's differing expectation relative to the content of the phrase.
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. Integrity must be maintained between the key and the transcriptions that link here; do not change any symbol or value without establishing consensus on the talk page first.
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.
Chinese characters "Chinese character" written in traditional (left) and simplified (right) forms Script type Logographic Time period c. 13th century BCE – present Direction Left-to-right Top-to-bottom, columns right-to-left Languages Chinese Japanese Korean Vietnamese Zhuang (among others) Related scripts Parent systems (Proto-writing) Chinese characters Child systems Bopomofo Jurchen ...