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  2. Lin Yutang's Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage

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    Lin's main claim "to have solved at one stroke the problem of Chinese grammar by classifying words as nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and prepositions, would need some justifying, since it is ultimately based on the premise that Chinese is the same as Latin", and a scheme that is only a "pis-aller should not be presented as a revelation". [24]

  3. Hanyu Da Cidian - Wikipedia

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    'Comprehensive Chinese Word Dictionary'), also known as the Grand Chinese Dictionary, is the most inclusive available Chinese dictionary. Lexicographically comparable to the Oxford English Dictionary , it has diachronic coverage of the Chinese language , and traces usage over three millennia from Chinese classic texts to modern slang.

  4. List of Chinese–Japanese false friends - Wikipedia

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    "Zì" (字) is the first Chinese character created, and Cangjie related it to a mythical story of the day these characters were created [clarification needed]. Japanese kanji borrows some words from the Chinese language. These form the relationship between the Japanese kanji and the Chinese logograph. Chinese words and characters were ...

  5. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/China- and Chinese-related articles

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    Often, "Chinese" is adequate: it is unnecessary, and often confusing, to call Standard Chinese "Mandarin", as Mandarin is a large language family in itself. The standardized form should be referred to as "Standard Chinese" when being contrasted with other Chinese varieties, such as Shanghainese or Cantonese.

  6. Family (Ba Jin novel) - Wikipedia

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    Family is often compared to the 18th-century novel, Dream of the Red Chamber, a richly poetic and tragic chronicle of the life of a prominent family living within a great house. Though he did not mention it as a model, Ba Jin, like all educated Chinese of his time, had been familiar with the work from his youth.

  7. AI detects woman’s breast cancer after routine screening ...

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    A U.K. woman had her breast cancer detected through AI after a routine mammogram came back as normal. Experts Drs. Nicole Saphier and Harvey Castro discuss the power of AI in cancer care.

  8. Homophonic puns in Standard Chinese - Wikipedia

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    However, modern Chinese words average about two syllables, so the high rate of syllable homophony does not cause a problem for communication. [2]) Many Chinese take great delight in using the large amount of homophones in the language to form puns, and they have become an important component of Chinese culture. [3]

  9. A Turkey Who Loves Listening to Taylor Swift Is Working to ...

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    After getting rescued from farm where she was set to be slaughtered, Serena the turkey now resides at Farm Sanctuary