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unusual facts about Chinese character



Approaching Science

Approaching Science (Chinese: 走近科学; Pinyin: Zǒujìn Kēxué) is a documentary film program of China's CCTV-10.

Chinese Peasants' and Workers' Democratic Party

The Chinese Peasants' and Workers' Democratic Party (Chinese: 中国农工民主党; Pinyin: Zhōngguó Nónggōng Mínzhǔdǎng) is one of the eight non-communist, legally recognised political parties in the People's Republic of China that follow the direction of the Communist Party of China and is a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Chirography

The intricate system of characters defined by their radicals (214 in the Chinese system, with an alternative 79 radical system in the later developed Japanese interpretation known as Kanji (漢字)) is believed to have come to use around 2000 BCE.

Commission on the Unification of Pronunciation

The Commission on the Unification of Pronunciation (讀音統一會 Pinyin: Dúyīn Tǒngyī Huì) was established in the Republic of China from 1912 to 1913 to select ancillary phonetic symbols for Mandarin, (Zhuyin was the product) and set the standard Guoyu pronunciation of basic Chinese characters.

Fan Xuji

Fan Xuji (Chinese: 范绪箕; born January 5, 1914) is a former president of Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Guang'an District

Guang'an District (Chinese: 广安区; Pinyin: Guǎng'ān Qū) is a district in Guang'an City, Sichuan, China.

Guozijian Street

Guozijian Street (Chinese: 国子监街; Pinyin: Guózǐjiàn Jiē), formerly known as Chengxian Street (Chinese: 成贤街; Pinyin: Chéngxián Jiē), is a street in Dongcheng District, Beijing.

Leiyang

Mashui (Chinese:马水)village is located in northeast Leiyang neighboring Anren(Chinese: 安仁)& Hengnan(Chinese: 衡南)

Lianhuanhua

Lianhuanhua (Chinese: 连环画 (Simplified) 連環畫 (Traditional); Pinyin: Liánhuánhuà or 連環圖) is a palm-size picture book of sequential drawings found in China in the early 20th century, and they were once used as political/propaganda tool for the Communist Party of China.

Middle Tong-Tai dialect

Middle Tong-Tai Dialect (Chinese: 通泰方言中区), a branch of the Tong-Tai Dialect is mainly used in the districts including Rugao, Rudong (excluding Binfang), Taixing, east of Dongtai, east of Hai'an and southwest of Jinhai.

Minhang High School

Minhang High School (MHS, Chinese: 上海市闵行中学, Pinyin: Mǐnháng Zhōngxué) is located in East Jiangchuan Road (江川东路), Minhang District, Shanghai, China.

No.80 High School of Beijing

High School of Beijing (Chinese: 北京市第八十中学), founded in 1956, is a high school in Chaoyang District, Beijing, and the beacon high school of the most prestige in this district.

Oscar Chu

He is notable for serving as the production director of Little Fighter Online (小朋友齊打交Online in Chinese).

Ruins of St. Paul's

The carvings include Jesuit images with Oriental themes, such as a woman stepping on a seven-headed hydra, described by Chinese characters as 'Holy Mother tramples the heads of the dragon'.

Ryakuji

However, some abbreviated forms of Hyōgaiji (表外字, characters not included in the Tōyō or Jōyō Kanji Lists) included in the JIS standards which conform to the Shinjitai simplifications are included in Level pre-1 and above of the Kanji Kentei (e.g. 餠→餅, 摑→掴), as well as some other allowances for alternate ways of writing radicals and alternate forms.

Shuifu County

Shuifu County (Chinese: 水富县; Pinyin: Shuǐfù Xiàn) is a county under the jurisdiction of Zhaotong Prefecture-level City located on the boundary of Sichuan and Yunnan provinces, and it is on the side of Jinsha River.

Tonkin Street

Although the name in Chinese character is currently only used by Tokyo, eastern capital of Japan, a hint from its English name suggests that the name is associated with the eastern capital of Vietnam, Tonkin, namely modern-day Hanoi.

Yuan Kewen

Yuan Kewen (Chinese: 袁克文; 1889–1931), courtesy name Baocen (豹岑), sobriquet Hanyun (寒云), was the second son of Yuan Shikai, and the younger brother of Yuan Keding.


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Family tree of Sima Yi

Sima Fang had eight sons (ranked in decreasing order of seniority) — Sima Lang, Sima Yi, Sima Fu, Sima Kui, Sima Xun, Sima Jin, Sima Tong and Sima Min — who were collectively known as the "Eight Das" because their courtesy names all contained the Chinese character da (達).

Mobile security

If a user with a Siemens S55 received a text message containing a Chinese character, it would lead to a denial of service.

Oi Yoi Yoi

The paintings have similarities with the Dancing Beijing logo for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, designed by Guo Chunning, which was inspired by the Chinese character (jīng, meaning "capital"), and also resembles a dancing figure with arms raised, or a runner crossing a finishing line.

Rubi

Ruby character, small, annotative characters that can be placed above or to the right of a Chinese character when writing logographic languages such as Chinese or Japanese to show the pronunciation