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For articles on words and phrases related to a specific area of China, or to a specific spoken variant, please refer to one of the subcategories. Subcategories This category has the following 14 subcategories, out of 14 total.
The Thousand Character Classic is understood to be one of the most widely read texts in China in the first millennium. [3] The popularity of the book in the Tang dynasty is shown by the fact that there were some 32 copies found in the Dunhuang archaeological excavations.
Simplified Chinese characters are one of two standardized character sets widely used to write the Chinese language, with the other being traditional characters.Their mass standardization during the 20th century was part of an initiative by the People's Republic of China (PRC) to promote literacy, and their use in ordinary circumstances on the mainland has been encouraged by the Chinese ...
The list also offers a table of correspondences between 2,546 Simplified Chinese characters and 2,574 Traditional Chinese characters, along with other selected variant forms. This table replaced all previous related standards, and provides the authoritative list of characters and glyph shapes for Simplified Chinese in China. The Table ...
From the name of the plant: some say the word came via the Japanese pronunciation, though 人参 now means 'carrot' in Japanese, while the modern word for 'ginseng' is 朝鮮人參, 'Korean carrot'. Go: Sino-Japanese 圍棋: igo: Japanese name for the Chinese board game, cf. Mandarin wéiqí. Guanxi: Mandarin 關係: guānxi
Classical Chinese word Part of speech Baihua word (simplified) Baihua word (traditional) Meaning Classical Chinese example Baihua translation (simplified) Baihua translation (traditional) English meaning 日 noun 太阳 [3] 太陽 sun 雲開見 日 [4] 拔开云雾，见到太阳。 [4] 拔開雲霧， 見到 太陽 。
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China in Ten Words (simplified Chinese: 十个词汇里的中国; traditional Chinese: 十個詞彙裡的中國; pinyin: shí gè cíhuì lǐ de zhōngguó) is an essay collection by the contemporary Chinese author Yu Hua, who is known for his novels To Live, Chronicle of a Blood Merchant, and Brothers.