Big Two (also known as Deuces and other names, see below; Mandarin: 大老二; pinyin: dà lǎo èr; Cantonese: 鋤大D; jyutping: co4 daai6 di2) is a card game similar to the game of Asshole, Crazy Eights, Bullshit, Winner, and other shedding games.
The Mandarin Language program in Jonas Clarke Middle School, taught by Ms. Jane and Ms. Ding, is exceptional.
For ethnic-Chinese Singaporeans, the designated language was Mandarin, in line with the national language policy pursued in both Nationalist and Communist China.
Xuzhou dialect claims a rich vocabulary of unique terms, and also has important tonal differences from Mandarin.
Mandarin Chinese | Mandarin | Mandarin Oriental | Mandarin orange | mandarin | Taiwanese Mandarin | Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group | Mandarin (bureaucrat) | Sichuanese Mandarin | Mandarin Oriental, Paris | Mandarin Oriental, Las Vegas | Mandarin (novel) | mandarin collar | Mandarin Airlines | Lower Yangtze Mandarin |
The conservative forces in the military and coalition parties in Australia often regarded him as a man bent on destroying the sensible and time-honoured traditions of the individual services, whilst the political left in the universities, unions and labour movement saw him as a prime example of the old public service 'mandarin' who told his ministers what to do and pursued a conservative agenda no matter who was in government at the time.
As of 2011, there are about 240 members working in the following languages: Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hungarian, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Mandarin, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Swedish, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.
The commune of Bảo Thạnh is the home of Phan Thanh Gian, a leading mandarin of Tự Đức who was also the first southerner to gain a PhD in the imperial court examinations.
Other recipes may contain a combination of Water chestnuts and Mandarin orange slices, or the Mandarin orange slices alone along with crushed instant ramen noodles.
In the late 90s Hong Kong's Softhard and LMF were influential though their Cantonese dialect was foreign to Mandarin speaking regions, while Taiwan's MC HotDog, Da Xi Men, and Da Zhi were more widely intelligible in mainland China.
Charles Derber, William A. Schwartz, Yale Magrass, Power in the Highest Degree: Professionals and the Rise of a New Mandarin Order, Oxford University Press, 1990.
This matching is available on multiple languages including Pinyin and Traditional Mandarin.
Courses include chemistry, biology, marine biology, algebra, pre-calculus, calculus, statistics, Spanish, French, Latin, Mandarin, world history, American history, economics and English, various AP courses, and various electives in each category.
This short novel by cartoonist Gahan Wilson pits the detectives Enoch Bone and John Weston against the Professor, a British Napoleon of Crime; the Mandarin, a Chinese mastermind, and Spectrobert, a French rogue.
The voice of the Russian fighter Petrov on the original Mandarin track was dubbed by Bruce Lee, with added reverb.
The Scottish plant-hunter Robert Fortune "discovered" it— in a mandarin's garden of the coastal city of Chusan (Zhoushan)— before he ever saw it growing wild in the mountains in Chusan's province, Zhejiang.
The first large-scale project to promote spoken language unification was in 1936: Wang Li's 4 volume Mandarin Phonetic System (MPS) entry, Guoyu Cidian (Kuo-yu Tz'u-tien).
However, Living Alone (一個人生活) was the more popular song from Freya, as it was also the ending theme song of TV series The Beauty Mermaid (天地傳說之魚美人), the song has a Mandarin and Cantonese cover version My Feelings (感應) sung by Hong Kong singer Vincy Chan.
Tours consist of a seven minute DVD (available in English, Mandarin, Japanese and Korean), photo opportunities in front of the stalactites and stalagmites, and finally a 15 minute tour through "glow worm alley".
His recent collaborations are with Singaporean Mandarin pop singer JJ Lin and Hong Kong singer/actor Karen Mok.
In the 1870s and 1880s, Stowe and her family wintered in Mandarin, Florida, now a neighborhood of modern consolidated Jacksonville, on the St. Johns River.
Although Japanese, Korean, and Mandarin are unrelated, those using JSL, KSL and TSL can interact easily because of the commonalities all share, such as functional markers .
Jia Yu Channel, a 24-hour Mandarin subscription channel founded in Malaysia
Kaesong, North Hwanghae, North Korea, whose Hanja name, when transliterated into Mandarin, is Kaicheng
It is a primary school that has its students taught in Mandarin Chinese, the language teachers use, the text books students use are communicated in Mandarin, apart from Malays class or English class of course.
KLCCP's subsidiaries and associate company own the Petronas Twin Towers, Suria KLCC, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Kuala Lumpur, Menara ExxonMobil and Menara Maxis, which are located at the KLCC.
Jeff Huang returned to the United States and started an internet company that later merged with a Japanese software company in a 60 million dollar deal before once again returning to Taiwan and fronting hip-hop group Machi; brother Stanley went on to establish a successful solo career, winning Best Mandarin Male Singer in the 2005 Golden Melody Awards; and Lin currently works as an orthopedic surgeon in California while still participating in music and film.
His base first centered in Ninh Bình Province and was supported by Tran Trieu Co, a mandarin under the late Trần Dynasty.
Laurence Brahm studied Intensive Mandarin Language in 1981 at Nankai University in Tianjin, China near Beijing.
Although other singers had covered this classic Chinese song by singer Faye Wong, she was the first to perform it in both Mandarin and Vietnamese.
The single volume has been translated into Mandarin and released by Taiwan Kadokawa and is available internationally on several Asian online shops like YesAsia.
Its fruit exports include Pakistan based Citrus (i.e., Kinnow, Mandarin, Clementine, Red Blood, Musammi) and Mangoes (Chaunsa, Sindhri, Langrha).
Nonetheless, after a USD 150 million renovation, Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong re-opened its doors on September 28, 2006, marking the event with a black-tie gala hosted by Dame Edna Everage with a performance by Bryan Ferry.
On July 1, 2009, Mandarin had a day-long free buffet to any Canadian Citizen as part of their 30th anniversary celebration and to commemorate Canada Day.
During his time with Little Tigers Team, he pursued a solo career, releasing an extensive catalogue of songs, Mandarin and Cantonese albums as a solo artist when member Julian Chen left the group to serve compulsory military service.
Our Mother of Sheshan or Our Lady of Sheshan, also known as Our Mother (or Lady) of Zose (Zose being the Shanghainese pronunciation of Mandarin Sheshan), is a celebrated Marian title of the Blessed Virgin Mary venerated by Chinese Roman Catholics.
She participated in the dubbing of the film "Flushed Away" (Taiwan Chinese version), Patty has been dubbed the voice of the character of Rita into Mandarin Chinese.
Miss Ewell gets her "mountie", Miss Petting her mandarin and Daisy her "prince".
Before beginning its Mandarin Chinese service, RCI produced a 40-week series called Everyday English which was broadcast in 1988 and early 1989 over local stations in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou.
I Have a Date with Spring (in English and Mandarin, 我和春天有个约会), Toy Factory Productions, Singapore, 1995
Provinces of China, administrative divisions called shěng in Mandarin
The vocabulary of Sichuanese has three main origins: Bashu (or Ancient Sichuanese), Middle Chinese and the languages of the immigrants, including Proto-Mandarin from Hubei, Xiang, Gan and Hakka, which were brought to Sichuan during the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
Zelmani's "Going Home" from Sing and Dance was covered in Mandarin Chinese as "Passenger" by Faye Wong on To Love.
The first one is Phoenix Chinese Channel, a 24-hour Mandarin entertainment and news channel owned by Phoenix and STAR TV/Fox International Channels itself, and the other one is Xing Kong another STAR TV/Fox International Channels general Mandarin entertainment channel for viewers outside Taiwan.now Available at Hong Kong;UTV Channel 526,TVB Network Vision Channel 40(Available at December 2),Cable TV Hong Kong Channmel 93 and now TV Channel 536
His multi-cultural academic and social background has resulted in Seng Giaw being fluent in Mandarin, English, Bahasa Malaysia, and competent in the writing of Malay in the Jawi script.
The album was nominated for three awards at the 22nd Golden Melody Awards in 2011: Best Song of the Year for "你不知道的事" (All The Things You Never Knew), Best Mandarin Album and Best Male Mandarin Artist for Wang for his work on this album.
In 2006 the trust established the world’s first school-based Confucius Institute, in partnership with the Office of Chinese Language Council International (Hanban) The SSAT Confucius Institute now has a network of 34 Confucius Classrooms in schools, specialising in the teaching of Mandarin Chinese.
Latinxua Sin Wenz, a little-used romanization system for Mandarin Chinese.
The English lyrics was first recorded in 1951 by Frankie Laine and have little in common with the original Mandarin.
According to the text Self-Description of Chisongzi (赤松子自述; "Master Red Pine") kept at the Wong Tai Sin Temple in Hong Kong, Wong Tai Sin was born Wong Cho Ping (Huang Chuping in Mandarin pinyin) in 338 in Lanxi, Jinhua, Zhejiang province.
He is currently residing in Permas Jaya, Malaysia, and is an ordained monk, known as Shao Guang Shi Xiong ("brother" in Mandarin).
Stefanie Sun, a Taiwan-based Singaporean singer-songwriter whose name is Sun Yanzi (孫燕姿) in Mandarin.
It was also covered by Mainland Chinese singer Han Xue on August 2004 in Mandarin; and by Hong Kong singer Vincy Chan in 2006, in Cantonese.