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  2. List of ethnic groups in Vietnam - Wikipedia

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    Make up those with Mandarin-speaking Chinese background. Not to be confused with the Ngái Hokkien, who are classified separately. Ngái <0.005%: 1,035 1,649: 4.66%: Thái Nguyên (800 people, constituting 48.51% of all Ngái in Vietnam), Bình Thuận (188 people, constituting 11.40% of all Ngái in Vietnam)

  3. Battle of Ngọc Hồi-Đống Đa - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Ngọc Hồi-Đống Đa or Qing invasion of Đại Việt (Vietnamese: Trận Ngọc Hồi - Đống Đa; Chinese: 清軍入越戰爭), also known as Victory of Kỷ Dậu (Vietnamese: Chiến thắng Kỷ Dậu), was fought between the forces of the Vietnamese Tây Sơn dynasty and the Qing dynasty in Ngọc Hồi [] (a place near Thanh Trì) and Đống Đa in northern Vietnam ...

  4. Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary (Vietnamese: từ Hán Việt, Chữ Hán: 詞漢越, literally 'Chinese-Vietnamese words') is a layer of about 3,000 monosyllabic morphemes of the Vietnamese language borrowed from Literary Chinese with consistent pronunciations based on Middle Chinese. Compounds using these morphemes are used extensively in cultural ...

  5. Traditional Chinese timekeeping - Wikipedia

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    The Mahāsāṃghika, translated into Chinese as the Móhēsēngzhī Lǜ (Taishō Tripiṭaka 1425) describes several units of time, including shùn or shùnqǐng (瞬頃; 'blink moment') and niàn. According to this text, niàn is the smallest unit of time at 18 milliseconds and a shùn is 360 milliseconds. [8]

  6. Thích Nhất Hạnh - Wikipedia

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    Here he also learned Chinese, English and French. [6] Nhất Hạnh attended Báo Quốc Buddhist Academy. [ 13 ] [ 2 ] Dissatisfied with the focus at Báo Quốc Academy, which he found lacking in philosophy, literature, and foreign languages, Nhất Hạnh left in 1950 [ 13 ] and took up residence in the Ấn Quang Pagoda in Saigon, where he ...

  7. Chữ Nôm - Wikipedia

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    Chữ Nôm (𡨸喃, IPA: [t͡ɕɨ˦ˀ˥ nom˧˧]) [5] is a logographic writing system formerly used to write the Vietnamese language.It uses Chinese characters to represent Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary and some native Vietnamese words, with other words represented by new characters created using a variety of methods, including phono-semantic compounds. [6]

  8. Nùng people - Wikipedia

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    The keepers of the Kỳ Sầm Temple all bear the surname Nùng. Although a Romanized script has been created for the Nùng language, worshipers of the temple prefer Chinese, similar to the Zhuang in China, and sometimes Vietnamese. In the 1990s, the Doi Moi program shifted the policy of ethnic affairs towards liberalization and preservation ...

  9. Võ Nguyên Giáp - Wikipedia

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    Giáp adopted the alias Duong Huai-nan, learned to speak and write Chinese, and studied the strategy and tactics of the Chinese Communist Party. [ 35 ] In September 1940, Vichy France agreed to the Japanese occupation of Vietnam , to 'protect' Indochina.