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  2. Line breaking rules in East Asian languages - Wikipedia

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    The line breaking rules in East Asian languages specify how to wrap East Asian Language text such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.Certain characters in those languages should not come at the end of a line, certain characters should not come at the start of a line, and some characters should never be split up across two lines.

  3. Thousand Character Classic - Wikipedia

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    The Thousand Character Classic (Chinese: 千字文; pinyin: Qiānzì wén), also known as the Thousand Character Text, is a Chinese poem that has been used as a primer for teaching Chinese characters to children from the sixth century onward. It contains exactly one thousand characters, each used only once, arranged into 250 lines of four ...

  4. Chinese numerals - Wikipedia

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    na 1-yeu-tha: 10 60: From Sanskrit nayuta नियुत 'myriad' 不可思議; 不可思议: bùkě sīyì: bat1 ho2 si1 ji3: put-khó-su-gī peq 4-khu sy 1-gni: 10 64: Literally translated as "unfathomable". This word is commonly used in Chinese as a chengyu, meaning "unimaginable", instead of its original meaning of the number 10 64 ...

  5. Wu Shuang Pu - Wikipedia

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    Wu Shuang Pu (Chinese: 無雙譜; lit. 'Table of Peerless Heroes') is a book of woodcut prints, first printed in 1694, early on in the Qing dynasty.This book contains the biographies and imagined portraits of 40 notable heroes and heroines from the Han dynasty to the Song dynasty, all accompanied by a brief introduction and guided by a related poem in yuefu style.

  6. Chinese character meanings - Wikipedia

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    Morphemes are the minimal units of meaning in a language. [4] Chinese characters are morpheme characters, and the meanings of Chinese characters come from the morphemes they record. [5] Most Chinese characters represent only one morpheme, and in that case the meaning of the character is the meaning of the morpheme recorded by the character. For ...

  7. Xianxia - Wikipedia

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    Xianxia (traditional Chinese: 仙俠; simplified Chinese: 仙侠; pinyin: xiānxiá; lit. 'immortal heroes') is a genre of Chinese fantasy heavily inspired by Chinese mythology and influenced by philosophies of Taoism, Chan Buddhism, Chinese martial arts, traditional Chinese medicine, Chinese folk religion, Chinese alchemy, other traditional elements of Chinese culture, [1] and the wuxia genre.

  8. Zhonghua Zihai - Wikipedia

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    The previous character dictionary published in China was the Hanyu Da Zidian, introduced in 1989, which contained 54,678 characters.In Japan, the 2003 edition of the Dai Kan-Wa jiten has some 51,109 characters, while the Han-Han Dae Sajeon completed in South Korea in 2008 contains 53,667 Chinese characters (the project having lasted 30 years, at a cost of 31,000,000,000 KRW or US$25 million [4 ...

  9. Talk:Thousand Character Classic - Wikipedia

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    The person who scanned or typed in the text made a mistake. Another possible explanation is the loss of some variants of the writing when humanity stepped into the computer age. Remember that this text was designed for calligraphy. These 1000 unique writings did not necessary mean 1000 unique Chinese words of unique meanings.