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Xi (/ ʃ iː / shee; [1] [2] Mandarin:) is the romanization in Pinyin of several different Chinese family names, including: 奚 ( Xī ; see Chinese Wikipedia article ) 西 ( Xī ; see Chinese Wikipedia article )
Standard Mandarin; Hanyu Pinyin: ... Xi Jinping [a] (born 15 June 1953) is a Chinese politician who has been the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party ...
Although Xi'an was established by the 11th century BCE, [6] the modern Mandarin dialect spoken likely has very little relation to Zhou, Qin, or Han dynasty speech, as Old Mandarin originated in the Yuan dynasty. [7] A recorded 73.5% of young people in Xi'an city can proficiently utilise the dialect. [8]
These are lists of the most common Chinese surnames in the People's Republic of China (Hong Kong, Macau, and Mainland China), the Republic of China (Taiwan), and the Chinese diaspora overseas as provided by government or academic sources.
Mandarin Chinese is the prestige language in practice, and failure to protect ethnic languages does occur. In summer 2020, the Inner Mongolian government announced an education policy change to phase out Mongolian as the language of instructions for humanities in elementary and middle schools, adopting the national instruction material instead.
The names of China include the many contemporary and historical designations given in various languages for the East Asian country known as Zhōngguó (中国; 中國; 'Central State', 'Middle Kingdom') in Standard Chinese, a form based on the Beijing dialect of Mandarin.
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).
Guanxi (simplified Chinese: 关系; traditional Chinese: 關係; pinyin: guānxi) is a term used in Chinese culture to describe an individual's social network of mutually beneficial personal and business relationships.