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Double Happiness is a ligature, "囍" composed of 喜喜 – two copies of the Chinese character 喜 (xǐ ⓘ) literally meaning joy, compressed to assume the square shape of a standard Chinese character (much as a real character may consist of two parts), and is pronounced simply as xǐ or as a polysyllabic Chinese character, being read as 双喜 (shuāngxǐ).
[1] [2] Chinese symbols often have auspicious meanings associated to them, such as good fortune, happiness, and also represent what would be considered as human virtues, such as filial piety, loyalty, and wisdom, [1] and can even convey the desires or wishes of the Chinese people to experience the good things in life. [2]
Zhuazhou (抓週 – literally, "pick" and "anniversary", meaning "one-year-old catch" ) is a Chinese ritual held at a child's first birthday party, when the child is 1 year, i.e. typically twelve months since birth (although variable reckonings as to what constitutes a year of age for entitlement for zhuazhou exist), old. The parents put ...
A red envelope, red packet, lai see (Chinese: 利是; Cantonese Yale: laih sih), hongbao or ang pau (traditional Chinese: 紅包; simplified Chinese: 红包; pinyin: hóngbāo; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: âng-pau) is a gift of money given during holidays or for special occasions such as weddings, graduations, and birthdays. [1]
In Mandarin, the words “inverted” (倒, dao) and “arrival” (到, dao) are homynyms, so fu dao can mean either "upside-down character fu" or “good fortune arrives“. Another type of character often used for doufang is the combined character, or lianzi (連字) - these are not real words used in spoken or written Chinese, but are a ...
The meaning developed from the original meaning of a character through association is the extended meaning (引申義, 引申义). For example, "士兵" (soldier) is an extended meaning of "兵". The meaning added through the loan of homonymous sounds is the phonetic-loan meaning (假借義, 假借义). For example, the original meaning of "其 ...
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007 – A variant of the 996 working hour system.Represents 00:00 hours (12:00 am) to 00:00 hours, 7 days per week (pinyin: línglíngqī); 1314 – "Forever", usually preceded by a phrase such as "I love you" or the similar. 1314 (pinyin: yīsānyīsì) represents 一生一世 (pinyin: yīshēng yīshì, "one lifetime, throughout one's life").