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  2. Chinese respelling of the English alphabet - Wikipedia

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    In China, letters of the English alphabet are pronounced somewhat differently because they have been adapted to the phonetics (i.e. the syllable structure) of the Chinese language. The knowledge of this spelling may be useful when spelling Western names, especially over the phone, as one may not be understood if the letters are pronounced as ...

  3. Chinese name - Wikipedia

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    Chinese names are personal names used by individuals from Greater China and other parts of the Sinophone world. Sometimes the same set of Chinese characters could be chosen as a Chinese name, a Hong Kong name, a Japanese name, a Korean name, a Malaysian Chinese name, or a Vietnamese name, but they would be spelled differently due to their varying historical pronunciation of Chinese characters.

  4. Pinyin table - Wikipedia

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    The below table indicates possible combinations of initials and finals in Standard Chinese, but does not indicate tones, which are equally important to the proper pronunciation of Chinese. Although some initial-final combinations have some syllables using each of the five different tones, most do not.

  5. Standard Chinese phonology - Wikipedia

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    Similar to English sh, but with a retroflex articulation 矢/shǐ ⓘ sh: ㄕ: sh: See § Denti-alveolar and retroflex series. /ʐ/ ([ʐ ~ ɻ]) [a] Similar to z in zoo in English, but with a retroflex articulation. L2 learners may pronounce it as an English R, but lips are unrounded. 日/rì ⓘ r: ㄖ: j: For pronunciation in syllable-final ...

  6. Xiaohongshu - Wikipedia

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    Xiaohongshu (XHS; Chinese: 小红书; pinyin: Xiǎohóngshū; lit. 'little red book'), [1] known in English as RedNote, [2] is a Chinese social networking and e-commerce platform that allows users to post videos and posts. Xiaohongshu has been called "China's answer to Instagram". [3]

  7. Bopomofo - Wikipedia

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    Unicode reference glyphs for "bopomofo" (PDF). (69.6 KB) and "extended bopomofo" (PDF). (61.6 KB) Bopomofo annotations – adds inline and pop-up annotations with bopomofo pronunciation and English definitions to Chinese text or web pages. Mandarin Dictionary – needs Chinese font for Big5 encoding

  8. Old Chinese phonology - Wikipedia

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    The pronunciation of each group of homophonous characters was indicated using the fanqie method, using a pair of other words with the same initial consonant and final (the rest of the syllable) respectively. [2] Analysis of the fanqie spellings allows one to enumerate the initials and finals of the system, but not to determine their phonetic ...

  9. Xu (surname 許) - Wikipedia

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    The surname 許 / 许 Xǔ has multiple theories regarding its origin.. One of the more credible ones states that the surname Xu originated from the feudal state of Xu in the area of Xǔchāng, now known as Jian'an District in Xuchang City, [1] of present-day Henan, during the Zhou dynasty.