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  2. Chinese character meanings - Wikipedia

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    The meaning added through the loan of homonymous sounds is the phonetic-loan meaning (simplified Chinese: 假借义; traditional Chinese: 假借義; pinyin: jiǎ jiè yì). For example, the original meaning of "其 (qí)" is "dustpan", and its pronoun usage of "his, her, its" is a phonetic-loan meaning.

  3. Raageshwari Loomba - Wikipedia

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    Raageshwari attended the Auxilium Convent High School. [1]As a teenager, Raageshwari made her film debut with the 1993 film Aankhen (1993). She subsequently appeared in Main Khiladi Tu Anari (1994), Zid (1994) and Dil Kitna Nadan Hai.

  4. List of Chinese symbols, designs, and art motifs - Wikipedia

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    Chinese symbols and motifs are more than decorative designs as they also hold symbolic but hidden meanings which have been used and understood by the Chinese people for thousand of years; they often influenced by nature, which include the fauna, the flora, landscape, and clouds.

  5. Jiayou (cheer) - Wikipedia

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    Jiayou in Standard Mandarin or Gayau in Cantonese (Chinese: 加油) is a ubiquitous Chinese expression of encouragement and support. The phrase is commonly used at sporting events and competitions by groups as a rallying cheer and can also be used at a personal level as a motivating phrase to the partner in the conversation.

  6. Thousand Character Classic - Wikipedia

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    The Thousand Character Classic (Chinese: 千字文; pinyin: Qiānzì wén), also known as the Thousand Character Text, is a Chinese poem that has been used as a primer for teaching Chinese characters to children from the sixth century onward. It contains exactly one thousand characters, each used only once, arranged into 250 lines of four ...

  7. Glossary of Wing Chun terms - Wikipedia

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    Mu ren zhuang (simplified Chinese: 木人桩; traditional Chinese: 木人樁; pinyin: mù rén zhuāng; Jyutping: muk6 jan4 zong1; lit. 'wooden dummy' Luk dim bun gwan , or staff ( simplified Chinese : 六点半棍 ; traditional Chinese : 六點半棍 ; pinyin : liù diǎn bàn gùn ; Jyutping : luk6 dim2 bun3 gwan3 ; lit. 'six and a half point ...

  8. Three Character Classic - Wikipedia

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    The texts would either have different characters used, new lines, or different ordering. The most common variant of the Three Character Classic in Vietnam has 30 lines that are different from the Chinese edition. [10] There are also two lines in the Vietnamese version that do not exist in the Chinese version.

  9. Hun and po - Wikipedia

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    Chinese Bronze script for po 魄 or 霸 "lunar brightness" Chinese Seal script for po 魄 "soul" Chinese Seal script for hun 魂 "soul". Like many Chinese characters, 魂 and 魄 are "phono-semantic" or "radical-phonetic" graphs combining a semantic radical showing the rough meaning of the character with a phonetic guide to its former pronunciation in Ancient Chinese.