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  2. Chinese character sounds - Wikipedia

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    According to "Chinese Character Information Dictionary": [23] The 7,785 Chinese characters of the dictionary belong to 414 syllables regardless of tones, among which, there are 22 syllables without homophones, 392 syllables with homophones. Syllable yi has the largest number of characters, with a total of 131 homophones.

  3. Varieties of Chinese - Wikipedia

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    Traditional Chinese syllable structure The usual unit of analysis is the syllable, traditionally analysed as consisting of an initial consonant , a final and a tone . [ 86 ] In general, southern varieties have fewer initial consonants than northern and central varieties, but more often preserve the Middle Chinese final consonants. [ 87 ]

  4. Pinyin table - Wikipedia

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    This pinyin table is a complete listing of all Hanyu Pinyin syllables used in Standard Chinese. Each syllable in a cell is composed of an initial (columns) and a final (rows). An empty cell indicates that the corresponding syllable does not exist in Standard Chinese.

  5. Languages of China - Wikipedia

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    The Chinese (or 'Sinitic') languages are typically divided into seven major language groups, and their study is a distinct academic discipline. [1] They differ as much from each other morphologically and phonetically as do English, German and Danish, but meanwhile share the same writing system ( Hanzi ) and are mutually intelligible in written ...

  6. Category:Chinese dictionaries - Wikipedia

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    17 languages. العربية ... A Chinese–English Dictionary; A Dictionary of the Chinese Language; A Syllabic Dictionary of the Chinese Language; ABC Chinese ...

  7. Chinese dictionary - Wikipedia

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    A page from the Yiqiejing yinyi, the oldest extant Chinese dictionary of Buddhist technical terminology – Dunhuang manuscripts, c. 8th century. There are two types of dictionaries regularly used in the Chinese language: 'character dictionaries' (字典; zìdiǎn) list individual Chinese characters, and 'word dictionaries' (辞典; 辭典; cídiǎn) list words and phrases.

  8. List of varieties of Chinese - Wikipedia

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    A Mandarin Chinese and Miao mixed language Maojia: 猫家话: 貓家話: A Qo-Xiong Miao and Chinese dialects mixed language Shaozhou Tuhua: 韶州土话: 韶州土話: A group of distinctive Chinese dialects in South China, including Yuebei Tuhua and Xiangnan Tuhua. It incorporates several Chinese dialects, as well as Yao languages. Tangwang ...

  9. Rime table - Wikipedia

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    A rime table or rhyme table (simplified Chinese: 韵图; traditional Chinese: 韻圖; pinyin: yùntú; Wade–Giles: yün-t'u) is a Chinese phonological model, tabulating the syllables of the series of rime dictionaries beginning with the Qieyun (601) by their onsets, rhyme groups, tones and other properties.