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  2. Bouea macrophylla - Wikipedia

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    Bouea macrophylla, commonly known as gandaria, [3] Burmese plum, Marian plum, plum mango [4] or mango plum in English, is a species of flowering plant native to Southeast Asia. The tree belongs to the family Anacardiaceae which also includes mango and cashew .

  3. Three Friends of Winter - Wikipedia

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    The Three Friends of Winter is an art motif that comprises the pine, bamboo, and plum. [1] The Chinese celebrated the pine (松), bamboo (竹) and Chinese flowering plum (梅) together, for they observed that unlike many other plants these plants do not wither as the cold days deepen into the winter season. [2]

  4. Chinese respelling of the English alphabet - Wikipedia

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    In China, letters of the English alphabet are pronounced somewhat differently because they have been adapted to the phonetics (i.e. the syllable structure) of the Chinese language. The knowledge of this spelling may be useful when spelling Western names, especially over the phone, as one may not be understood if the letters are pronounced as ...

  5. Trees in Chinese mythology and cultural symbology - Wikipedia

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    Trees in Chinese mythology and culture tend to range from more-or-less mythological such as the Fusang tree and the Peaches of Immortality cultivated by Xi Wangmu to mythological attributions to such well-known trees, such as the pine, the cypress, the plum and other types of prunus, the jujube, the cassia, and certain as yet unidentified trees ...

  6. Chinese characters of Empress Wu - Wikipedia

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    View a machine-translated version of the Chinese article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.

  7. National flower of the Republic of China - Wikipedia

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    The plum blossom, known as the meihua (Chinese: 梅花; pinyin: méihuā), is a symbol for resilience and perseverance in the face of adversity, because plum blossoms often bloom most vibrantly even amidst the harsh winter snow. [2] [3] As the plum tree can usually grow for a long time, ancient trees are found throughout China. Huangmei county ...

  8. Transliteration of Chinese - Wikipedia

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    The significant feature of bopomofo is that it is composed entirely of ruby characters which can be written beside any Chinese text whether written vertically, right-to-left, or left-to-right. [4] The characters within the bopomofo system are unique phonetic characters, and are not part of the Latin alphabet. In this way, it is not technically ...

  9. Li hing mui - Wikipedia

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    The name is derived from Philippine Hokkien Chinese: 鹹梅; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kiâm-muî; lit. 'salted plum'. The li hing mui powder mixture (anise, licorice, salt, sugar, and powdered plum seeds) was also introduced and is sold separately as kiam-muy-hoon (or simply "kiamoy powder", Hokkien Chinese : 鹹梅 粉 ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī : kiâm-muî hún ...