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  2. Kwee family (Pontiac) - Wikipedia

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    Kwee Liong Keng is married to Chua Lee Eng, from the Chua family that founded Cycle and Carriage. [6] He also was Singapore's Non-Resident Ambassador to Poland, among other public service positions. [7] Kwee Liong Tek is the chairman of the Group. [8] Kwee Liong Seen and Kwee Liong Phing are both directors on the board.

  3. Japanese writing system - Wikipedia

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    The modern Japanese writing system uses a combination of logographic kanji, which are adopted Chinese characters, and syllabic kana.Kana itself consists of a pair of syllabaries: hiragana, used primarily for native or naturalized Japanese words and grammatical elements; and katakana, used primarily for foreign words and names, loanwords, onomatopoeia, scientific names, and sometimes for emphasis.

  4. List of gairaigo and wasei-eigo terms - Wikipedia

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    Gairaigo are Japanese words originating from, or based on, foreign-language, generally Western, terms.These include wasei-eigo (Japanese pseudo-anglicisms).Many of these loanwords derive from Portuguese, due to Portugal's early role in Japanese-Western interaction; Dutch, due to the Netherlands' relationship with Japan amidst the isolationist policy of sakoku during the Edo period; and from ...

  5. List of Singaporeans by net worth - Wikipedia

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    Kwee Liong Keng: 1.35 billion: Pontiac Land 23: Kwee Liong Phing: 1.35 billion: Pontiac Land 24: Kwee Liong Seen: 1.35 billion: Pontiac Land 25: Kwee Liong Tek: 1.35 billion: Pontiac Land 26: Kishin RK: 1.6 billion: Royal Holdings/RB Capital 27: Ron Sim: 1.6 billion: Osim International: 28: Wee Ee Cheong: 1.6 billion: United Overseas Bank: 29 ...

  6. Kana ligature - Wikipedia

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    View a machine-translated version of the Japanese article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate , is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.

  7. Category:Japanese writing system - Wikipedia

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    Afrikaans; العربية; Aragonés; Azərbaycanca; বাংলা; Беларуская; Български; Català; Čeština; Dansk; Deutsch; Español; Esperanto

  8. East Asian typography - Wikipedia

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    East Asian typography is the application of typography to the writing systems used for the Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese languages. Scripts represented in East Asian typography include Chinese characters , kana , and hangul .

  9. Horizontal and vertical writing in East Asian scripts - Wikipedia

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    Many East Asian scripts can be written horizontally or vertically. Chinese characters, Korean hangul, and Japanese kana may be oriented along either axis, as they consist mainly of disconnected logographic or syllabic units, each occupying a square block of space, thus allowing for flexibility for which direction texts can be written, be it horizontally from left-to-right, horizontally from ...