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The Chinese Wikipedia was established, along with 12 other Wikipedias, in May 2001. At this time, the Chinese Wikipedia did not support Chinese characters, and had no encyclopedic content. In October 2002, the first Chinese-language page, the main page, was written. A software update on 27 October 2002 allowed Chinese language input.
Overseas Chinese, Chinese people residing outside the territories of mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan Sinitic languages , the major branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family Chinese language , a group of related languages spoken predominantly in China, sharing a written script (Chinese characters in traditional and simplified forms)
Chinese (simplified Chinese: 汉语; traditional Chinese: 漢語; pinyin: Hànyǔ; lit. 'Han language' or 中文; Zhōngwén; 'Chinese writing') is a group of languages [d] spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in China, as well as by various communities of the Chinese diaspora.
Overseas Chinese people are people of Chinese origin who reside outside Greater China (mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan). [20] As of 2011, there were over 40.3 million overseas Chinese. [8] Overall, China has a low percent of population living overseas.
Han Chinese people and culture later spread southwards in the Chinese mainland, driven by large and sustained waves of migration during successive periods of Chinese history, e.g. the Qin (221–206 BC) and Han (202 BC – 220 AD) dynasties, leading to a demographic and economic tilt towards the south, and the absorption of various non-Han ...
我 wǒ I 给 gěi give 你 nǐ you 一本 yìběn a 书 shū book [我給你一本書] 我 给 你 一本 书 wǒ gěi nǐ yìběn shū I give you a book In southern dialects, as well as many southwestern and Lower Yangtze dialects, the objects occur in the reverse order. Most varieties of Chinese use post-verbal particles to indicate aspect, but the particles used vary. Most Mandarin ...
Chinese cuisine is a very important part of Chinese culture, which includes cuisine originating from the diverse regions of China, as well as from Chinese people in other parts of the world. Because of the Chinese diaspora and historical power of the country, Chinese cuisine has influenced many other cuisines in Asia , with modifications made ...
First Chinese dictionary/encyclopedia c. 2nd cent. BCE: Han dynasty: Shiben: First Chinese encyclopedia of origins, largely a lost work, but later partially reconstructed c. 222 CE: Cao Wei: Huanglan: First Chinese leishu encyclopedia, for Emperor Cao Pi, lost work, with only fragments surviving 624: Tang dynasty: Yiwen Leiju