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Jiong (Chinese: 囧; pinyin: jiǒng; Jyutping: gwing2) is a once obscure Chinese character meaning a "patterned window". [1] Since 2008, it has become an internet phenomenon and widely used to express embarrassment and gloom because of the character's resemblance to a sad facial expression. [2]
Exclamative particles are used as a method of recording aspects of human speech which may not be based entirely on meaning and definition. Specific characters are used to record exclamations, as with any other form of Chinese vocabulary, some characters exclusively representing the expression (such as 哼), others sharing characters with alternate words and meanings (such as 可).
Iloco (also Iloko, Ilocáno or Ilokáno; / iː l oʊ ˈ k ɑː n oʊ /; [6] Iloco: Pagsasao nga Iloko) is an Austronesian language primarily spoken in the Philippines by the Ilocano people. [7] [8] It is one of the eight major languages of the Philippines with about 11 million speakers and ranks as the third most widely spoken native language.
A page from the Yiqiejing yinyi, the oldest extant Chinese dictionary of Buddhist technical terminology – Dunhuang manuscripts, c. 8th century. There are two types of dictionaries regularly used in the Chinese language: 'character dictionaries' (字典; zìdiǎn) list individual Chinese characters, and 'word dictionaries' (辞典; 辭典; cídiǎn) list words and phrases.
Sorry is a word commonly used in ... "Sorry", by Guns N' Roses from Chinese Democracy, ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike ...
A Dictionary of the Chinese Language; A Syllabic Dictionary of the Chinese Language; ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
Ilocano grammar is the study of the morphological and syntactic structures of the Ilocano language, a language spoken in the northern Philippines by ethnic Ilocanos and Ilocano communities in other parts of the Philippines, especially in Mindanao and overseas such as the United States, Canada Australia, the Middle East and other parts of the world.
While special text encodings for Chinese characters were introduced prior to its popularization, The Unicode Standard is the predominant text encoding worldwide. [114] According to the philosophy of the Unicode Consortium , each distinct graph is assigned a number in the standard, but specifying its appearance or the particular allograph used ...