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unusual facts about traditional Chinese



Bugle Boy

William Mow (Traditional Chinese: 毛昭寰) was born in Hangzhou, China, and later moved with his family to the United States.

Canton Road Station

Canton Road Station (Trad. Chinese: 廣東道站) was a planned railway station on the Kowloon Southern Link of West Rail Line between East Tsim Sha Tsui Station and Austin Station, beneath the shopping mall, Harbour City in Tsim Sha Tsui, by replacing the existing underground car park.

Caritas Bianchi College of Careers

Caritas Bianchi College of Careers (Traditional Chinese: 明愛白英奇專業學校) is a community college in Hong Kong that offers top-up Bachelor’s Degree in collaboration with universities, Associate Degree, Higher Diploma, Professional Diploma, BTEC Higher National Diploma and BTEC National Certificate in various professional fields.

Chuan-Chiung Chang

Chang Chuan-Chiung (Traditional Chinese: 張傳炯) (born 23 Oct 1928) Professor Emeritus of Pharmacology at National Taiwan University.

Chung-Hsing Historiography

The Chung Hsing Historiography (Traditional Chinese: 中興史學; Simplified Chinese: 中兴史学) is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Graduate School of History at National Chung Hsing University (中興大學歷史學系研究生學會) in Taiwan.

Dying of the Light

Traditional Chinese: "光之逝 " ("Fading of the Light"); 蓋亞文化(GAEA): 2010.01

General History of the Zhuang

General History of the Zhuang(traditional Chinese: 壯族通史;simplified Chinese: 壮族通史; pinyin: Zhuàngzú tōng shi) is an academic book which relatively systematic and comprehensive response Zhuang history written by Chinese famous historian Huang Xianfan.

Hong Kong University Students' Union Choir

The Hong Kong University Students' Union Choir (Traditional Chinese: 香港大學學生會合唱團), also known as Union Choir, HKUSU, is a choral society affiliated with the Hong Kong University Students' Union.

Jing Jiang Rou Si

Jing Jiang Rou Si (simplified Chinese:京酱肉丝; traditional Chinese:京醬肉絲; pinyin: Jīng jiàng ròu sī), Sauteed Shredded Pork in Sweet Bean Sauce,

Jinong

It was derived from Chinese Jinwang (Traditional Chinese: 晉王; pinyin: jìn wáng; lit. King of Jin) although some historians have suggested it originates from Qinwang (Traditional Chinese: 親王; pinyin: qīn wáng; lit. Prince).

Whatever its relation with the Chinese title, the Mongol title was rendered in Chinese as "jinong" (Traditional Chinese: 濟農; pinyin: jǐ nóng) or "jinang" (Traditional Chinese:吉囊; pinyin: jí náng).

Journal of Zhejiang University

Journal of Zhejiang University (Traditional Chinese: 浙江大學學報, Simplified Chinese: 浙江大学学报) is a journal series published by the Zhejiang University Press.

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.

Linhai Industrial Park

Linhai Industrial Park (Traditional Chinese: 臨海工業區) is located in Siaogang District and Cianjhen District of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

Lo Pan Temple

Lo Pan Temple (traditional Chinese: 魯班先師廟; jyutping: lou5 baan1 sin1 si1 miu6) is a temple located in Kennedy Town, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong dedicated to Lo Pan (魯班; also transliterated as "Lu Ban"), the patron saint of Chinese builders and contractors.

Lü Clan Disturbance

The Lü Clan Disturbance (Traditional Chinese: 呂氏之亂) (180 BC) refers to a political disturbance after the death of Grand Empress Dowager Lü of Han Dynasty, the aftermaths of which saw the clan of the deceased empress' family, the Lü consort clan being overthrown from their seats of power and massacred, the deposing of the puppet Emperor Houshao, and the accession to the throne of Emperor Wen.

Macau Amateur Radio Society

The Associação dos Radioamadores de Macau (ARM) (in traditional Chinese, 澳門業餘無線電協會; in English, Macao Amateur Radio Society) is a non-profit organization for amateur radio enthusiasts in Macau, China.

Mei Fong

Mei Fong (Traditional Chinese: 方鳳美, Phoneticized Cantonese: Fong Foongmei; born August 8, 1972) is a Malaysian Chinese journalist who was staff reporter for the China bureau for The Wall Street Journal.

Nee Soon South Single Member Constituency

Nee Soon South Single Member Constituency (Traditional Chinese: 義順南單選區; Simplified Chinese: 义顺南单选区) is a defunct single member constituency consisting of Yishun's Neighourhood 8 (Khatib),part of Neighbourhood 7 and private residential areas along Sembawang Road(near Sembawang Army Camp).

Neville Poy

Neville G. Poy, OC, FRCS(C), FACS (Chinese: 伍衛權; born October 29, 1935 in Hong Kong), is a retired Toronto plastic surgeon, husband of Senator Vivienne Poy and brother of Adrienne Clarkson.

NJStar Communicator

NJStar Communicator was a very popular Traditional Chinese Microsoft Windows add-on for Windows 95 and Windows 98 that supports Chinese, Japanese and Korean input and web pages viewing in the same windows before Windows provided those functions.

Peter Kwong

Peter Kwong Kong-kit GBS (Traditional Chinese: 鄺廣傑) was the Bishop of Hong Kong and Macau (1981) and, in 1998, was named as the first Archbishop of Hong Kong, Primate of Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui (i.e. Anglican Church) and Bishop of the Diocese of Hong Kong Island.

Raymond To

Raymond To Kwok Wai (Chinese: 杜國威) is a dramatist, screenwriter and film director from Hong Kong, with ancestry from Panyu, Guangzhou,Guangdong.

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation

In November 2009, Richard Chang resigned as CEO and was replaced by David N.K. Wang (Traditional Chinese: 王寧國), a former executive of Hua Hong (Group) Co., Ltd. and Applied Materials.

Stephen H. West

Stephen H. West, Ph.D (Traditional Chinese: 奚如谷, pinyin: Xī Rúgǔ, born January 6, 1944) is a sinologist, philologist, and translator.

The Heroic Trio

The Heroic Trio (Dung fong saam hap, TC: 東方三俠, pinyin: dōng fāng sān xiá) is a 1992 Hong Kong action film directed by Johnny To, starring Michelle Yeoh, Maggie Cheung, and Anita Mui as the titular trio.

Xiandai Hanyu Cidian

The dictionary is also available in digital format on CD-ROMs and Traditional Chinese digital versions.

Yokohama Chinatown

Yokohama Chinatown (Japanese: 横浜中華街, yokohama chūkagai; Simplified Chinese: 横滨中华街; Traditional Chinese: 横濱中華街; Pinyin: Hèngbīn Zhōnghuá Jiē; Cantonese Jyutping: Waang4 ban1 zung1 waa4 gaai1) is located in Yokohama, Japan, which is located just south of Tokyo.

Yongjiang Campus, Zhejiang University

Yongjiang Campus (Traditional Chinese: 甬江校區, Simplified Chinese: 甬江校区), is a campus of Zhejiang University located in Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province.


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2012 Hong Kong Sevens

The products, carried the specially designed "Kukri x G.O.D." logo, which features elements of the original Hong Kong flag, and ranges from polos, traditional Chinese jackets, boxers, Cheongsam-inspired ladies polo, messenger and tote bags.

A. chinensis

Anemone chinensis, one of the 50 fundamental herbs used in traditional Chinese medicine

Academy of Chinese Culture and Health Sciences

The practitioners in the clinic practice Traditional Chinese Medicine, acupuncture, herbal medicine, Tai chi, Tui na massage (acupressure), Food Therapy, Moxibustion, and Cupping Therapy.

In 1982, Master Wei Tsuei (1926–2010) was a practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tai chi meditation, and Qigong.

Brigitte Kwan

Following the Tongmenghui's history of raising relief funds for war efforts in China through the United States and South-east Asia, the pair secretly eloped into British zone through Hong Kong, and set sail to Nanyang (modern day South-east Asia), onto British Crown territories, stopping at Phoenix City (Traditional Chinese: 鳳城:Hanyu Pinyin Fengcheng) (modern day Kuala Lumpur), Penang and Singapore.

Chinese clothing

For the 2012 Hong Kong Sevens tournament, sportswear brand Kukri Sports teamed up with Hong Kong lifestyle retail store G.O.D. to produce merchandising, which included traditional Chinese jackets and Cheongsam-inspired ladies polo shirts.

Chinese punctuation

For example, "Leonardo da Vinci" in simplified Chinese: "列奥纳多‧达‧芬奇" (a Mandarin translation) and traditional Chinese: "李奧納多‧達‧文西" (a Cantonese translation).

Cognitive polyphasia

This can be observed with health related issues where Sandra Jovchelovitch and Marie-Claude Gervais have shown how members of the Chinese community attend to Western medical doctors and simultaneously apply traditional Chinese treatments.

Debate on traditional and simplified Chinese characters

On 5 July 2008, on his visit to Taiwanese writer Koarn Hack Tarn's home, Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou promised that he would not introduce the usage of Simplified Chinese into the territories just because of the local newly passed policy to let Mainland tourists visit Taiwan but to provide side-by-side translation so that Mainland visitors could appreciate the aesthetic nature of Traditional Chinese.

Double Hour

Double hour (unit), a traditional Chinese unit of time also known as a Watch

Double Ninth Festival

According to the I Ching, nine is a yang number; the ninth day of the ninth lunar month (or double nine) has too much yang (a traditional Chinese spiritual concept) and is thus a potentially dangerous date.

Dragon ship

Dragon boat-a traditional Chinese watercraft now used exclusively in racing

Emeici

Emeici (峨嵋刺; variously translated as "Emei Daggers", "Emei Piercers") are a traditional Chinese martial arts weapon.

ETen Chinese System

Their software (only) Chinese systems were widely copied by many traditional Chinese users and software pirates, but this was difficult for E-TEN to control.

Ethyl caffeate

It is also found in Huáng bǎi, one of the fifty fundamental herbs of traditional Chinese medicine, also known also as Cortex Phellodendri, the bark of one of two species of Phellodendron tree: Phellodendron amurense or Phellodendron chinense.

Faculties of Medicines in Hong Kong

There are three public, government funded schools of Traditional Chinese Medicine / Pharmacy in Hong Kong, including the School of Chinese Medicine of Hong Kong Baptist University, the School of Chinese Medicine at the University of Hong Kong, and the School of Chinese Medicine at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Fingolimod

Myriocin was isolated from the culture broth a type of entomopathogenic fungus (Isaria sinclairii) that was an eternal youth nostrum in traditional Chinese medicine.

Fire pot

Hot pot or huoguo (Simplified Chinese: 火锅) is a traditional Chinese social meal.

Four-character idiom

Chengyu, a type of traditional Chinese idiomatic expressions, most of which consist of four characters

Guixin Expressway

Guixin Expressway (Simplified Chinese:贵新高速公路, Traditional Chinese:貴新高速公路) connects the cities of Xinzhai and Guiyang in the Chinese province of Guizhou.

Hena

Erhu, a traditional Chinese musical instrument known as hena in Taiwan

Hook sword

In the duel between Shulien (Michelle Yeoh) and Jen Yu (Zhang Ziyi) in the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Shulien uses a number of traditional Chinese weapons in turn, one of which is a pair of hook swords.

IETF language tag

When the difference is one of script or script variety, as for simplified versus traditional Chinese characters, it should be expressed with a script subtag instead of a region subtag; in this example, zh-Hans and zh-Hant should be used instead of zh-CN and zh-HK.

King Wuling of Zhao

His reign was famous for one important event: the reforms consisting of "Wearing the Hu (styled) Attire and Shooting from Horseback (in battle)" (Simplified Chinese: 胡服骑射, Traditional Chinese: 胡服騎射).

Knock Knock Loving You

Knock Knock Loving You (Traditional Chinese: 敲敲愛上你, Pinyin: Qiao Qiao Ai Shang Ni), also known as Quietly Falling in Love with You, is a Romantic Taiwanese drama starring Dylan Kuo, Maggie Wu, and Ming Dao.

Lifestyle China

Lifestyle China (Simplified Chinese:中国式生活; Traditional Chinese:中國式生活) is a qualitative design research project ever organized in China by the Asian Lifestyle Design Research Lab of the School of Design at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Lo Pan Temple

Lo Pan Temple is known for its diverse murals filled with traditional Chinese Cultural style depicting different people, insects, animals, flowers and landscapes such as butterflies and narcissi (蝴蝶水仙圖), rowing a boat (張騫泛槎圖), Red Cliff (夜遊赤壁圖), visiting friends (訪友圖), ladies next to the rock (倚石仕女圖), etc.

Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong

The Forbes Five-Star spa, one of only three in Hong Kong, draws on the established Asian healing philosophies of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda, offering a Vichy Shower, Traditional Chinese Medicine consultations, and Hong Kong’s first authentic Ayurvedic sanctuary.

Monotype Imaging

CTDL was responsible for developing Microsoft JhengHei, the default traditional Chinese interface font for Windows Vista.

NingBo Vocational Education Central School

Ningbo Vocational Education Central School (VEC; simplified Chinese: 宁波市职业技术教育中心学校; traditional Chinese: 寧波市職業技術教育中心學校) is a national-level key vocational school in Ningbo, China.

Pailou

Paifang, a traditional Chinese architectural form like an archway

Santa Maria Madre del Redentore a Tor Bella Monaca

The present Cardinal Priest of this Titular Church is Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, SDB (Traditional Chinese: 陳日君樞機), the Diocesan Bishop of the Diocese of Hong Kong in China.

Shanghai Restoration Project

The group's first eponymous release, inspired by the Shanghai jazz bands of the 1930s, combines traditional Chinese instruments with modern hip-hop and electronica.

Sisters of Pearl

Sisters of Pearl (Traditional Chinese: (掌上明珠) is a TVB pre-modern drama series, starring Jessica Hsuan, Bowie Lam, and Michael Tao.

Tai chi chih

According to practitioners, tai chi chih focuses on circulating, developing and balancing the chi (in the traditional Chinese concept, a kind of spiritual energy residing in every living thing).

Ten Great Buildings

The Cultural Palace of Nationalities - Located on the north side of West Chang'an Avenue, the Nationalities Cultural Palace is a medium rise building incorporating traditional Chinese design elements.

Tianjin Medical University

TMU includes eight departments involved in 15 specialties such as Clinical Medicine, Anesthesiology etc. but also Integration of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western medicine and Medical Humanities.

Tianming

Mandate of Heaven, or Tianming in pinyin, traditional Chinese philosophical concept concerning the legitimacy of rulers

Wahoo's Fish Taco

Wahoo's was founded in Costa Mesa, California in 1988 by Chinese-Brazilian brothers Eduardo Lee, Mingo Lee and Wing Lam, who mixed traditional Chinese and Brazilian flavors with dishes they encountered while traveling in Mexico.

Wong Chuk Kok Tsui

Wong Chuk Kok Tsui (Traditional Chinese:黃竹角咀, lit. Cape of the Yellow Bamboo Point), formerly known as Bluff Head, is a cape in north east New Territories, Hong Kong.

Wu Yao

Wu Teh Yao (simplified Chinese: 吴德耀; traditional Chinese: 吳德耀; pinyin: Wú Dé Yào, 1915–1995), an educator and a specialist in Confucianism and political science

Xizhong

Xizhong Township (simplified Chinese: 息仲乡; traditional Chinese: 息仲鄉; pinyin: Xīzhòng Xiāng) in Baoding, Hebei, China

Xizhong Island (simplified Chinese: 西中岛; traditional Chinese: 西中島; pinyin: Xizhōng Dǎo)

Xue Yongjun

Cooperating with Zhu Yiqing, an artist from the same place with Xue, they impress people by their series of art works made up by traditional Chinese seals.

Zhi Lai Zhi Wang

Zhi Lai Zhi Wang (simplified Chinese: 职来职往; traditional Chinese: 職來職往; literally "the capable deserve the job") is a Chinese job-hunting reality show hosted by Lixiang (李响).

Zhuangzi Tests His Wife

Zhuangzi Tests His Wife (Traditional Chinese: 莊子試妻 Zhuangzi shi qi) is a 1913 Hong Kong drama film directed by Li Minwei.