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  2. 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 ...

  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. 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.

  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. Chart of Standard Forms of Common National Characters

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    The Rarely-Used Characters are C, and the number reduce to 18,318 characters. Also, 465 new-added standard characters are labeled as N. In total, there are 29,921 standard characters in this dictionary, others are deemed as variant characters. The number of variant characters in the latest Dictionary of Chinese Variant Form Digital Edition is ...

  7. Table of Comparison between Standard, Traditional and Variant ...

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    Comparing with the previous standards, the changes of the Table of Comparison between Standard, Traditional and Variant Chinese Characters include . In addition to the characters from the General List of Simplified Chinese Characters and the List of Commonly Used Characters in Modern Chinese, 226 groups of characters such as "髫, 𬬭, 𫖯" that are widely used in the society are included in ...

  8. Chineasy - Wikipedia

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    Chineasy is an internet startup founded with the mission of teaching Chinese. It was created by entrepreneur Shaolan Hsueh, [1] and the teams operate from the UK and Taiwan. . The approach is to learn Chinese characters with the help of illustrations to help memorize Chinese characters bett

  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.