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  2. List of Chinese symbols, designs, and art motifs - Wikipedia

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    Images Chinese characters Border Gong (工; work) and bats Decorative Floral and twines Grass pattern Tang caowen [4] Twined branches Chanzhiwen [4] Curves Pommel pattern Guri (屈輪) / Pommel scroll [21] Geometric Diagonal Diagonal straight lines Lishui: Diagonal wavy lines Semicricles Horizontal semi-circles Woshui Curvilinear Swirl [4] Wavy ...

  3. Meander (art) - Wikipedia

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    The meander is a fundamental design motif in regions far from a Hellenic orbit: labyrinthine meanders ("thunder" pattern [3]) appear in bands and as infill on Shang bronzes (c. 1600 BC – c. 1045 BC), and many traditional buildings in and around China still bear geometric designs almost identical to meanders.

  4. Borders of China - Wikipedia

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    The region of all countries bordering China is sometimes referred to by scholars as the China Rim, [3] [4] [5] or simply as China's periphery (Chinese: 中国周边). [6] The China Rim plays a significant role in competition between other countries and China, as is the case with America's China Containment Policy. [7]

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  6. National Standards of the People's Republic of China

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    For example, GB 2312-1980 refers to the national compulsory standard (GB), sequential number 2312, revision year 1980. [6] Besides the national standard repository, China allows the registration of standards by industry/trade, by localities (DB, Dìfāng Biāozhǔn, "local standard"), by associations (T), or by an individual company (Q).

  7. Portas do Cerco - Wikipedia

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    Led by Colonel Mesquita, Portugal won the small battle which led to the extension of Macau's border northwards. [4] At the limit of said expansion, the Portas do Cerco was built with the inscription " A pátria honrai, que a pátria vos contempla " (Portuguese for "Honor your fatherland, for your fatherland looks over you") on the façade on ...

  8. Check (pattern) - Wikipedia

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    Check (also checker, Brit: chequer, or dicing) is a pattern of modified stripes consisting of crossed horizontal and vertical lines which form squares.The pattern typically contains two colours where a single checker (that is a single square within the check pattern) is surrounded on all four sides by a checker of a different colour.

  9. Mandarin square - Wikipedia

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    A mandarin square (Chinese: 補子), also known as a rank badge, was a large embroidered badge sewn onto the surcoat of officials in Imperial China (decorating hanfu and qizhuang), Korea (decorating the gwanbok of the Joseon dynasty), in Vietnam, and the Ryukyu Kingdom. It was embroidered with detailed, colourful animal or bird insignia ...