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  2. Chinese titles - Wikipedia

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    Chinese people often address professionals in formal situations by their occupational titles. These titles can either follow the surname (or full name) of the person in reference, or it can stand alone either as a form of address or if the person being referred to is unambiguous without the added surname.

  3. T–V distinction in the world's languages - Wikipedia

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    For the most part, in Brazilian Portuguese, você and vocês (singular and plural "you", respectively) are used as the V form in more relaxed situations (for example, between two strangers with the same age in the streets), while o senhor and a senhora ("Mr"/"Sir" and "Mrs"/"Madam", plurals os senhores and as senhoras) are used in formal speech ...

  4. Chart of Standard Forms of Common National Characters

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    The characters set and typeface of CNS 11643 were established on the basis of the Chart of Standard Forms of Common National Characters. [1] In the Taiwan Ministry of Education's Dictionary of Chinese Variant Form (Chinese: 異體字字典; pinyin: yìtǐzì zìdiǎn) Digital Edition, the Common National Characters are coded as A. The Less-Than ...

  5. Table of Comparison between Standard, Traditional and Variant ...

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    Comparing with the previous standards, the changes of the Table of Comparison between Standard, Traditional and Variant Chinese Characters include . In addition to the characters from the General List of Simplified Chinese Characters and the List of Commonly Used Characters in Modern Chinese, 226 groups of characters such as "髫, 𬬭, 𫖯" that are widely used in the society are included in ...

  6. T–V distinction - Wikipedia

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    Sometimes, a singular V-form derives from a third-person pronoun; in German and some Nordic languages, it is the third-person plural. Some languages have separate T and V forms for both singular and plural, others have the same form and others have a T–V distinction only in the singular. Different languages distinguish pronoun uses in ...

  7. List of Commonly Used Standard Chinese Characters - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Standard Form of National Characters - Wikipedia

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    The Standard Form of National Characters tends to adopt orthodox variants for most of its characters, but it still adopts many common vulgar variants. Many have their components rearranged. For example: 群 [2] The orthodox form of this character has 君 above 羊, i.e. 羣. 峰 [3] The orthodox form of this character has 山 above 夆, i.e. 峯.

  9. English honorifics - Wikipedia

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    In the English language, an honorific is a form of address conveying esteem, courtesy or respect. These can be titles prefixing a person's name, e.g.: Mr, Mrs, Miss, Ms, Mx, Sir, Dame, Dr, Cllr, Lady, or Lord, or other titles or positions that can appear as a form of address without the person's name, as in Mr President, General, Captain, Father, Doctor, or Earl.