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"row" — objects which form lines (words 詞 / 词, etc.); occupations in a field (idiom, spoken language); 行 could also be pronounced as xíng, see below. 盒: hé hap6: hap6 objects in a small "box" or case (e.g. mooncakes, tapes) 戶 / 户: 户: hù wu6: wu6 households (户 is common in handwritten Traditional Chinese) — household ...
gam 6 sau 2: qìn shǒu pressing hand \/ falling diagonal forearm, bent elbow, palm faces down presses down on the opponent's bridge or body to pin them down jam sao 沉手 (as simp.) cam 2 sau 2: chén shǒu sinking hand || pointing forward advancing arm wrist snaps forward and down to sink opponent's brige jip sao 接手 (as simp.) jip 3 sau ...
The oldest collection of Judge Bao stories is the Bao Longtu Baijia Gong'an, the Hundred Cases of Judge Bao, also included in the Ming dynasty Bao Gong An (Chinese:包 公 案). [3] The popularity of gong'an novels diminished in the early years of the Qing dynasty. [4] It was not until the latter years of the dynasty that the genre experienced ...
Gong'an was itself originally a metonym—an article of furniture involved in setting legal precedents came to stand for such precedents. For example, Di Gong'an (狄公案) is the original title of Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee, the famous Chinese detective novel based on a historical Tang dynasty judge.
Within the Chinese language, the same character 公 (gōng) is used as a noun in the terms for respected male relatives (e.g. 老公, lǎogōng, "husband", and 外公, wàigōng, "maternal grandfather") and as an adjective in the terms for various male animals (e.g. 公牛, gōngniú, "bull", and 公羊, gōngyáng, "ram" or "billy goat").
Pages from a printed edition of the Kaogongji from the Shanghai Library The diagram of Chengzhou's idealized layout from the 1175 Song-era Xinding Sanlitu, based on the Kaogongji descriptions of an ideal capital. The Kaogongji is the oldest known technical encyclopedia, [5] particularly noted for its early discussion of Chinese urban planning.
The previous character dictionary published in China was the Hanyu Da Zidian, introduced in 1989, which contained 54,678 characters.In Japan, the 2003 edition of the Dai Kan-Wa jiten has some 51,109 characters, while the Han-Han Dae Sajeon completed in South Korea in 2008 contains 53,667 Chinese characters (the project having lasted 30 years, at a cost of 31,000,000,000 KRW or US$25 million [4 ...
The term Liù Zì Jué first appears in the book On Caring for the Health of the Mind and Prolonging the Life Span written by Tao Hongjing of the Southern and Northern dynasties (420–589). A leading figure of the Maoshan School of Taoism, Tao was renowned for his profound knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine. "One has only one way for ...