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Chinese character sounds (simplified Chinese: 汉字字音; traditional Chinese: 漢字字音; pinyin: hànzì zìyīn) are the pronunciations of Chinese characters. The standard sounds of Chinese characters are based on the phonetic system of the Beijing dialect. [1] Normally a Chinese character is read with one syllable.
Ng (pronounced []; English approximation often / ə ŋ / əng or / ɪ ŋ / ing or / ɛ ŋ / eng) is both a Cantonese transliteration of the Chinese surnames 吳/吴 (Mandarin Wú) and 伍 (Mandarin Wǔ) and also a common Hokkien transcription of the surname 黃/黄 (Pe̍h-ōe-jī: N̂ɡ, Mandarin Huáng).
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.
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.
Yi surname ranks 106th among other family surnames in mainland China with members up to more than 1.7 million, making 0.12% of total Chinese population. [ citation needed ] A 2013 study found that it was the 114th most-common name, shared by 1.75 million people, or 0.130% of the population, with the largest province being Hunan .
He zun rubbing and transcription; framed is the phrase 宅𢆶𠁩或; zhái zī zhōngguó; 'inhabit this central state'.The same phrase is written in traditional and simplified characters as 宅茲中国; 宅茲中國 The brocade armband with the words "Five stars rising in the east, being a propitious sign for Zhongguo (中國), made during the Han dynasty The Nestorian Stele ...
Yi; Yi (drinkware) (彝), former name for the zun, a traditional bronze drinkware of ancient China; Yi (prefix symbol), the prefix symbol of the binary unit prefix yobi, representing 2 80, the equivalent of the decimal prefix yotta-(Y) Yi (simplified Chinese: 亿; traditional Chinese: 億), an East Asian counting unit meaning 100,000,000
For example, the Chinese-derived Korean words for "pear blossoms" (梨花) and "plum blossoms" (李花) are both pronounced "Yi-hwa" in Korean. [2] There are a great variety of potential meanings, as there are 35 hanja with the reading "yi" and 15 hanja with the reading "hwa" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be ...