When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Bone china - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_china

    Bone china is a type of vitreous, translucent pottery, [1] the raw materials for which include bone ash, feldspathic material and kaolin. It has been defined as "ware with a translucent body" containing a minimum of 30% of phosphate derived from calcined animal bone or calcium phosphate. [ 2 ]

  3. Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_vocabulary

    Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary (Vietnamese: từ Hán Việt, Chữ Hán: 詞漢越, literally 'Chinese-Vietnamese words') is a layer of about 3,000 monosyllabic morphemes of the Vietnamese language borrowed from Literary Chinese with consistent pronunciations based on Middle Chinese.

  4. Vietnamese ceramics - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_ceramics

    After reclaiming independence from China in 938, the Vietnamese craftsman under sovereign royal rules began designing and manufacturing ceramic productions independently of China. Vietnamese Lý-Trần period's creamy-white celadon and white-brown gốm hoa nâu ceramics have local characteristics and are distinctly different from Chinese ceramics.

  5. Vietnamese martial arts - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_martial_arts

    Võ thuật Bình Định/Bình Định Gia – umbrella title for all the traditional styles of Bình Định in central Vietnam. Võ Lâm Tân Khánh Bà Trà - The Tân Khánh martial arts was established in the 17th century. It was developed as a method of self-defense against enemies and wild animals. [1] Traditional Vietnamese wrestling.

  6. Encyclopedic Dictionary of Vietnam - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedic_Dictionary_of...

    Từ điển bách khoa Việt Nam (lit: Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Vietnam) is a state-sponsored Vietnamese-language encyclopedia that was first published in 1995. It has four volumes consisting of 40,000 entries, the final of which was published in 2005. [1] The encyclopedia was republished in 2011.

  7. Vietnamese encyclopedias - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_encyclopedias

    Việt-nam bách-khoa từ-điển (Encyclopedia of Vietnam), a set of encyclopedias with annotations in Chinese, English and French by Đào Đăng Vỹ, a Vietnamese scholar; published from 1959 to 1963 in Saigon, Republic of Vietnam. [3] [4]

  8. Ho Chi Minh City University of Social Sciences and Humanities

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh_City...

    HCMUSSH was formerly known as the College of Letters, University of Saigon (Vietnamese: Trường Đại học Văn khoa, Viện Đại học Sài Gòn). It is now the biggest research and training center in the field of social sciences and humanities in Southern Vietnam. In October 2021, HCMUSSH officially claimed their autonomy in the ...

  9. Vietnamese exonyms - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_exonyms

    During the expansion of Vietnam some place names have become Vietnamized. Consequently, as control of different places and regions has shifted among China, Vietnam, and other Southeast Asian countries, the Vietnamese names for places can sometimes differ from the names residents of aforementioned places use, although nowadays it has become more ...