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  2. List of Chinese symbols, designs, and art motifs - Wikipedia

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    Images Cai (wealth) Stylized character Wealth Fo (佛) Chinese character Buddha Fu (福) Chinese character Upright prosperity/ good luck Upside down Stylized symbol prosperity/ good luck Lu (禄) Chinese character Stylized symbol Shou: Chinese character longevity Stylized symbol Shou with wan Wan Chinese character Ten thousand years

  3. Chinese character meanings - Wikipedia

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    A character with only one meaning is a monosemous character, and a character with two or more meanings is a polysemous character. According to statistics from the "Chinese Character Information Dictionary", among the 7,785 mainland standard Chinese characters in the dictionary, there are 4,139 monosemous characters and 3,053 polysemous characters.

  4. Earthly Branches - Wikipedia

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    The Earthly Branches (also called the Terrestrial Branches or the 12-cycle [1]) are a system of twelve ordered symbols used throughout East Asia.They are indigenous to China, and are themselves Chinese characters, corresponding to words with no concrete meaning other than the associated branch's ordinal position in the list.

  5. Solar term - Wikipedia

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    The solar terms used to mark the midpoint of the month (marked with "Z", for Chinese: 中氣; pinyin: zhōngqì) are considered the major terms, while the solar terms used to mark the start of the month (marked with "J", for Chinese: 節氣; pinyin: jiéqì) are deemed minor.

  6. What is the meaning of the word 'eclipse'? Here is its origin ...

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    Here are viewing times for the partial eclipse in locations across Michigan. ... In Chinese the term for eclipse is "shi," which translates to "eat," and correlates with the mythological ...

  7. Four Symbols - Wikipedia

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    The Four Symbols are represented in an inspired line of skins for characters of the first-person-shooter Overwatch. In the game's 2018 Chinese New Year (Year of the Dog) event, playable characters Zarya, Mercy, Pharah, and Genji received cosmetic skins based on the Black Tortoise (Xuanwu), the Vermillion Bird (Zhuque), the Azure Dragon ...

  8. Where is the best place to see the 2024 eclipse? - AOL

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    Eclipse path of totality cuts across 13 U.S. states Mexico's Pacific coast will be the first location in continental North America to experience totality, which will occur at about 11:07 a.m. PDT ...

  9. 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 ...