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  2. Transcription into Chinese characters - Wikipedia

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    The meaning of this name in Turkish, is " Five cities," and the term 五城 Wu-ch'eng, meaning also "Five cities," occurs repeatedly in the Yuan shi, as a synonym of Bie-shi-ba-li. The committee however transformed the name into 巴實伯里 Ba-shi-bo-li, and state that Ba-shi in the language of the Mohammedans means "head" and bo-li "kidneys."

  3. Chinese characters - Wikipedia

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    Chinese characters "Chinese character" written in traditional (left) and simplified (right) forms Script type Logographic Time period c. 13th century BCE – present Direction Left-to-right Top-to-bottom, columns right-to-left Languages Chinese Japanese Korean Vietnamese Zhuang (among others) Related scripts Parent systems (Proto-writing) Chinese characters Child systems Bopomofo Jurchen ...

  4. List of common Chinese surnames - Wikipedia

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    Chinese names also form the basis for many common Cambodian, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese surnames, and to an extent, Filipino surnames in both translation and transliteration into those languages. The conception of China as consisting of the "old hundred families" (Chinese: 老百姓; pinyin: Lǎo Bǎi Xìng; lit.

  5. Chinese character meanings - Wikipedia

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    The meaning developed from the original meaning of a character through association is the extended meaning (引申義, 引申义). For example, "士兵" (soldier) is an extended meaning of "兵". The meaning added through the loan of homonymous sounds is the phonetic-loan meaning (假借義, 假借义). For example, the original meaning of "其 ...

  6. Chinese compound surname - Wikipedia

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    A Chinese compound surname is a Chinese surname using more than one character.Many of these compound surnames derive from Zhou dynasty Chinese noble and official titles, professions, place names and other areas, to serve a purpose.

  7. Chinese given name - Wikipedia

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    In contrast to the relative paucity of Chinese surnames, given names can theoretically include any of the Chinese language's 100,000 characters [1] and contain almost any meaning. It is considered disrespectful in China to name a child after an older relative, and both bad practice and disadvantageous for the child's fortune to copy the names ...

  8. Modern Chinese characters - Wikipedia

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    The meaning developed from the original meaning of a character through association is the extended meaning (引申義; 引申义). [66] For example, 士兵; 'soldier' is an extended meaning of 兵. The meaning added through the loan of homonymous sounds is the phonetic-loan meaning (假借義; 假借义).

  9. List of Commonly Used Standard Chinese Characters - Wikipedia

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    Of the characters included, 3,500 are in Tier 1 and designated as frequently used characters; Tier 2 includes 3,000 characters that are designated as commonly used characters but less frequently used than those in Tier 1; Tier 3 includes characters commonly used as names and terminology.