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  2. Bamboo and wooden slips - Wikipedia

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    Bamboo and wooden strips were the standard writing material during the Han dynasty and excavated examples have been found in abundance. [4] Subsequently, the improvements made to paper by Cai Lun during the Han dynasty began to displace bamboo and wooden strips from mainstream uses, and by the 4th century AD bamboo had been largely abandoned as ...

  3. Written Chinese - Wikipedia

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    Written Chinese is a writing system that uses Chinese characters and other symbols to represent the Chinese languages. Chinese characters do not directly represent pronunciation, unlike letters in an alphabet or syllabograms in a syllabary .

  4. Walnut - Wikipedia

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    A walnut is the edible seed of any tree of the genus Juglans (family Juglandaceae), particularly the Persian or English walnut, Juglans regia. They are accessory fruit because the outer covering of the fruit is technically an involucre and thus not morphologically part of the carpel; this means it cannot be a drupe but is instead a drupe-like nut.

  5. Juglans - Wikipedia

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    Walnut trees are any species of tree in the plant genus Juglans, the type genus of the family Juglandaceae, the seeds of which are referred to as walnuts.All species are deciduous trees, 10–40 metres (33–131 ft) tall, with pinnate leaves 200–900 millimetres (7.9–35.4 in), with 5–25 leaflets; the shoots have chambered pith, a character shared with the wingnuts (Pterocarya), but not ...

  6. Juglans sigillata - Wikipedia

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    Juglans sigillata, common name iron walnut [2] (Chinese: 泡核桃, pao he tao), [3] is a species of tree in the walnut family Juglandaceae native to the eastern Himalayas and western China. The tree has been cultivated for its edible walnuts , and there have been at least 80 authorised or approved cultivars produced after successful ...

  7. Chinese walnut cookie - Wikipedia

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    It contains carbohydrates, protein, fat, vitamins, and minerals such as calcium, potassium, phosphorus, sodium, magnesium, and selenium. [4]Chinese walnut cookie is a high-sugar and high-fat food, long-term consumption will induce obesity, cardiovascular disease and other threats to human health.

  8. Chinese character structures - Wikipedia

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    Strokes (笔画; 筆劃; bǐhuà) are the smallest building units of Chinese characters. When writing a Chinese character, the trace of a dot or a line left on the writing material (such as paper) from pen-down to pen-up is called a stroke. [4] Strokes combine with each other in a Chinese character in different ways.

  9. Chinese character meanings - Wikipedia

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    The meaning added through the loan of homonymous sounds is the phonetic-loan meaning (simplified Chinese: 假借义; traditional Chinese: 假借義; pinyin: jiǎ jiè yì). For example, the original meaning of "其 (qí)" is "dustpan", and its pronoun usage of "his, her, its" is a phonetic-loan meaning.