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  2. 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.

  3. Thousand Character Classic - Wikipedia

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    The Thousand Character Classic (Chinese: 千字文; pinyin: Qiānzì wén), also known as the Thousand Character Text, is a Chinese poem that has been used as a primer for teaching Chinese characters to children from the sixth century onward. It contains exactly one thousand characters, each used only once, arranged into 250 lines of four ...

  4. Transcription into Chinese characters - Wikipedia

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    The meaning of this name in Turkish, is " Five cities," and the term 五城 Wu-ch'eng, meaning also "Five cities," occurs repeatedly in the Yuan shi, as a synonym of Bie-shi-ba-li. The committee however transformed the name into 巴實伯里 Ba-shi-bo-li, and state that Ba-shi in the language of the Mohammedans means "head" and bo-li "kidneys."

  5. Sino-Korean vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    Sino-Korean vocabulary or Hanja-eo (Korean: 한자어; Hanja: 漢字 語) refers to Korean words of Chinese origin. Sino-Korean vocabulary includes words borrowed directly from Chinese, as well as new Korean words created from Chinese characters, and words borrowed from Sino-Japanese vocabulary.

  6. Bye Bye Sea - Wikipedia

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    "Never Stop" "My Mind Talks (Reprise)" "Outside the Window is a Peaceful Table" (창 밖은 평화로운 식탁)"You & Me" "I Remember It Again Today" (오늘도 생각이 나네요)

  7. Transliteration of Chinese - Wikipedia

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    The Dungan language, a variety of Mandarin, was once written in the Latin script, but now employs Cyrillic. Some use the Cyrillic alphabet to shorten pinyin—e.g. 是; shì as [ш] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1: ш) . Various other countries employ bespoke systems for cyrillising Chinese.

  8. Origin story - Wikipedia

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    In fiction, an origin story is an account or backstory revealing how a character or group of people become a protagonist or antagonist. In American comic books , it also refers to how characters gained their superpowers and/or the circumstances under which they became superheroes or supervillains .

  9. Ning (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Ning is the romanisation of the Chinese surnames 寧 Níng and its variant 甯 Nìng.After the introduction of simplified characters, both names were written as 宁 in Mainland China until 2000, when the character 甯 was restored as an accepted variant for people whose family had originally used that character.