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  2. Hmong writing - Wikipedia

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    Miao in Chinese Characters (Hmong Chinese) [ edit ] In 1912, in Sichuan , a French officer named d'Ollone is said to have discovered some members of the Miao people reading and writing using Chinese characters, but they were allegedly very secretive about this script's existence and many members of the community vehemently denied it.

  3. Line breaking rules in East Asian languages - Wikipedia

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    Move punctuation character to the end of the previous line. Oidashi (Wrap to next) Send characters not permitted at the end of a line to the next line, increase tracking to pad out first line. Another use is to wrap a character from the first line with the goal of preventing a character that shouldn't start a line from coming first on the next ...

  4. Chinese character encoding - Wikipedia

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    The Chinese Guobiao (or GB, "national standard") system is used in mainland China and Singapore, and the (mainly) Taiwanese Big5 system is used in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau as the two primary "legacy" local encoding systems. Guobiao is usually displayed using simplified characters and Big5 is usually displayed using traditional characters ...

  5. Transcription into Chinese characters - Wikipedia

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    Modern Han Chinese consists of about 412 syllables [1] in 5 tones, so homophones abound and most non-Han words have multiple possible transcriptions. This is particularly true since Chinese is written as monosyllabic logograms, and consonant clusters foreign to Chinese must be broken into their constituent sounds (or omitted), despite being thought of as a single unit in their original language.

  6. Wubi method - Wikipedia

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    The Wubi 98 keyboard layout The Wubi 86 keyboard layout (more common). The Wubizixing input method (simplified Chinese: 五笔字型输入法; traditional Chinese: 五筆字型輸入法; pinyin: wǔbǐ zìxíng shūrùfǎ; lit. 'five-stroke character model input method'), often abbreviated to simply Wubi or Wubi Xing, [1] is a Chinese character input method primarily for inputting simplified ...

  7. 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 ...

  8. Fugitive Arrested Over 900 Miles Away After Allegedly ... - AOL

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    Related: Over $24,000 Reward Offered to Identify Parents Who Abandoned 3 Siblings as Newborn Babies Per the office's investigation, Caballeros is accused of dropping his child and assaulting and ...

  9. Character amnesia - Wikipedia

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    Character amnesia is a phenomenon where experienced speakers of some East Asian languages forget how to write Chinese characters previously well-known to them. The phenomenon is specifically tied to prolonged and extensive use of input methods, such as those that use romanizations of characters, and is documented to be a significant issue in China and Japan.