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- The term '''Chinese''' may refer to any of the following: ...legal definition, whether citizenship in the Republic of China makes one "Chinese" is subject of some [[politics|political]] debate as supporters of Taiwan i3 KB (434 words) - 23:45, 12 December 2020
- ...[[population]] 1,376,000,000 (estimated 2015); capital, Beijing; language, Chinese (Mandarin is the official form). Official name '''''People's Republic of Ch Chinese civilization stretches back until at least the 3rd millennium bc, the count1 KB (186 words) - 15:06, 21 December 2020
- ...is the conversion into written, typewritten or printed form, of a spoken [[language]] source, such as the [[proceedings]] of a [[court]] hearing. It can also m ...transcribed differently under different systems. For example, the Mandarin Chinese name for the capital of the People's Republic of China is Beijing in the co5 KB (694 words) - 13:15, 6 October 2009
File:Falun full.jpg ...ing of "Wan" (in Mandarin). It is also thought to be equivalent to another Chinese character with the same pronunciation, which means '"ten thousand; a large ...rnest Klein, "KLEIN'S COMPREHENSIVE ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE" (Elsevier, 1971);(200 × 198 (16 KB)) - 21:32, 31 October 2013File:Falun 80.jpg ...ing of "Wan" (in Mandarin). It is also thought to be equivalent to another Chinese character with the same pronunciation, which means '"ten thousand; a large ...rnest Klein, "KLEIN'S COMPREHENSIVE ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE" (Elsevier, 1971);(80 × 80 (7 KB)) - 21:32, 31 October 2013- In [[English]] language usage, the term "mantra" has a colloquial meaning quite distinct from [[pra ...o that whereas Brahmins had been very strict on correct pronunciation, the Chinese, and indeed other Far-Eastern Buddhists were less concerned with this than6 KB (875 words) - 01:21, 13 December 2020
- ...s central tenets of [[Truthfulness]], [[Compassion]], and [[Forbearance]] (Chinese: 真、善、忍), and identifies as a qigong practice of the Buddhist scho ...e teachings of its founder, a "cultivation system" in the [[tradition]] of Chinese antiquity, and sometimes a religion or [[new religious movement]].6 KB (899 words) - 00:34, 13 December 2020
- ...://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America North America], the expanding [[Chinese]] cleared the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_63#63:5 ...y were dislodged by a powerful southern-coastwise thrust of the northern [[Chinese]] tribes. Their final [[exodus]] was not so much due to [[population]] [[pr8 KB (1,178 words) - 23:32, 12 December 2020
- A '''word''' is a unit of [[language]] that represents a [[concepts|concept]] which can be expressively [[commun ...m and zero or more affixes. Words can be combined to create other units of language such as phrases, clauses, and sentences. A word consisting of two or more s10 KB (1,544 words) - 02:44, 13 December 2020
- ...ikipedia.org/wiki/Unitedstates United States] is to seek . . . to preserve Chinese territorial and administrative entity."2 KB (313 words) - 00:16, 13 December 2020
- Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning—that is, to distinguish or ...tone. Furthermore, tone tends to play almost no grammatical role (the Jin language of Shanxi being a notable exception). In many tonal African languages, such5 KB (843 words) - 22:00, 19 April 2010
- ...er involve a rising pitch or a falling pitch. Intonation is found in every language and even in tonal languages, but the realisation and [[function]] are seemi ...e Tonal languages] such as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language Chinese] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hausa_language Hausa] use pitch for dis3 KB (365 words) - 01:22, 13 December 2020
- ...e strong and diverse foreign language classes (Spanish, Latin, French, and Chinese), students' ability to enroll in University classes, and one of the best hi2 KB (335 words) - 01:56, 13 December 2020
- ...Greek Polytheism, Roman Polytheism, Germanic Polytheism, Slavic polytheism,Chinese folk religion, Neopagan faiths and Anglo-Saxon [[paganism]]. The [[English]] [[language]] word "polytheism" is attested from the 17th century, loaned from French p3 KB (372 words) - 02:32, 13 December 2020
- ...nd other [[environments]] where many people may not be familiar with the [[language]] of the place they are in, as well as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabi ...eiform] and (incorrectly) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_character Chinese characters].3 KB (493 words) - 00:00, 13 December 2020
- ...ṛti. The latter was translated into Tibetan as trenpa (wylie: dran pa) and Chinese as nian 念. The Pali language scholar [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_William_Rhys_Davids Thomas Wi3 KB (429 words) - 01:21, 13 December 2020
- ...ist of [[conversation]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_language body language], or brief [[physical]] [[contact]]. It may be one-sided or reciprocated (e ...at she is [[sexually]] interested instead of just flirting. Furthermore, [[Chinese]] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese Japanese] women are not expec3 KB (493 words) - 01:17, 13 December 2020
- ...Two- Many" to describe counting limits. In other [[words]], in their own [[language]] equivalent way, early peoples had a [[word]] to describe the quantities o ...riting 4 as IIII, but to this day 3 is written as three lines in Roman and Chinese numerals. This was the way the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmin Brahm5 KB (862 words) - 02:41, 13 December 2020
- ...on [[system]] of denoting [[numbers]] in both [[spoken]] and [[written]] [[language]]. Ten is the first two-digit [[number]] in [[decimal]] and thus the lowest ...five digits displayed). The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_numeral Chinese word numeral] for ten is 十, which resembles a cross.4 KB (609 words) - 02:32, 13 December 2020
- ...ne word in a sentence to be [[compatible]] according to the rules of the [[language]] is known as concord or agreement. For example, in "the choir sings", "cho ...Languages such as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_Chinese Mandarin Chinese] that never use inflections are called analytic or isolating.[https://en.wi4 KB (612 words) - 00:12, 13 December 2020