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• Chinese
  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 i
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• China
  ...[[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 count
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• Transcripts
  ...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 co
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• Mantras
  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 than
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• Falun Gong
  ...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]].
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• 79:6 Dawn of Chinese Civilization
  ...://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]] [[pr
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• Words
  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 s
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• Entity
  ...ikipedia.org/wiki/Unitedstates United States] is to seek . . . to preserve Chinese territorial and administrative entity."
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• Tone
  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, such
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• Intonation
  ...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 dis
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• St. Andrew’s Sewanee School
  ...e strong and diverse foreign language classes (Spanish, Latin, French, and Chinese), students' ability to enroll in University classes, and one of the best hi
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• Polytheism
  ...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 p
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• Ideograph
  ...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].
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• Mindfulness
  ...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 Wi
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• Flirtation
  ...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 expec
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• Three
  ...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 Brahm
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• Ten
  ...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.
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• Inflection
  ...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.wi
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• Diaspora
  ...iki/Atlantic_slave_trade African Trans-Atlantic slave trade], the southern Chinese during the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coolie coolie slave trade], or th ...]], the first known recorded usage of the word diaspora in the [[English]] language was in 1876 referring "extensive diaspora work (as it is termed) of evangel
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• Autumn
  ...ly those who could [[read]] and [[write]], the only people whose use of [[language]] we now know), the word harvest lost its [[reference]] to the time of year ..._America North America] was at its peak, and the new settlers took their [[language]] with them. While the term fall [[gradually]] became obsolete in Britain,
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• 2005-12-12-The Urantia Book, Impatience
  ...seeks for more spiritual things. We understand that there are 874 million Chinese who speak Mandarin and that is the dialect the Book is being translated int ...ted into as many languages as possible. Ultimately the world will have one language in some distant future, but for the time being it is most important that th
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• 78:5 The Andite Migrations
  ...ia, and the upper stretches of the Mesopotamian plains. This [[ancient]] [[language]] gave the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occident Occidental] tongues all ...wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibet Tibet] and added desirable qualities to the later Chinese stocks. From time to time small groups made their way into [https://en.wiki
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• History of Ideas
  ...f selected pivotal ideas. This book also appeared in Chinese- and Japanese-language editions.
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• Sutras
  ...ch are regarded as records of the oral teachings of Gautama [[Buddha]]. In Chinese, these are known as 經 (pinyin: jīng). These teachings are assembled in p ...name of sūya (in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardhamagadhi Ardhamagadhi] language) can derive from [[Sanskrit]] sūkta, but hardly from sūtra.
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• Universal
  ...m involves the implications of language use and the complexity of relating language to [[ontology|ontological]] theory. ...arable, but not equivalent, to the concept of the [[Mandate of Heaven]] in Chinese history.
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• Tao Te Ching
  ...ozi (simplified Chinese: 老子; traditional Chinese: 老子; pinyin: Lǎozǐ), is a Chinese [[classic]] [[text]]. Its name comes from the opening [[words]] of its two ...ely [[interpreted]] through the use of Taoist words and [[concepts]]. Many Chinese artists, including poets, painters, calligraphers, and even gardeners have
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• Alchemy
  ...lity." The origin of the root chem is not yet satisfactorily explained. In Chinese, Indian, and Greek texts alchemy is referred to as "the Art," or by terms i ...poetry uses fables and parables. In short, we are confronted with a secret language. According to some authorities, there was even an oath not to divulge the s
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• Spirit
  ...nstincts. Similarly, both the [[Scandinavian languages]] and the [[Chinese language]] uses the term "breath" to refer to the spirit. '''Rooah''' (also spelled '''ruah''' or '''ruach''') is a [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] word meaning ''[[wind]]'' or ''[[spirit]]''.
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• History
  ...rACAAAAIAAJ The Century dictionary; an encyclopedic lexicon of the English language]. New York: The Century Co. Page [https://books.google.com/books?id=wrACAAA ...rd "estoire" was coined by Brigitte Gasson. The word entered the [[English language]] in [[1390]] with the meaning of "relation of incidents, story". In [[Mid
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• 1991-12-25-The Jesus Family
  ...el]] in your [[society]]. There are [[advantages]] to working in a small [[Chinese]] [[community]] [like [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallahassee,_FL Tallah
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• Humanities
  ...tudy of important works of the literature in that language, as well as the language itself (grammar, vocabulary, etc.). ...stribution of wealth. The noun ''law'' derives from the late [[Old English language|Old English]] ''lagu'', meaning something laid down or fixed. see [https://
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• 1999-02-14-Mission Challenges
  ...]]. As the Chinese pronounce various words--the different pitches in their language means different things. Branson means ‘[[heroic]] [[attitude]].' That is
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• World Wide Web
  ...ive role in guiding the development of Web standards (such as the [[markup language]]s in which Web pages are composed), and in recent years has advocated his ...ming language)|Java]] itself has become more widely used as a platform and language for [[server-side]] and other programming.
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• Geometry
  ...s of mathematics, such as algebra or number theory. However, the geometric language is also used in contexts that are far removed from its traditional, Euclide ..., the Babylonian clay tablets, and the Indian ''Shulba Sutras'', while the Chinese had the work of Mozi, Zhang Heng, and the ''Nine Chapters on the Mathematic
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• Narrative
  ...''" or "'''skilled'''". (Ultimately derived from the [[Proto-Indo-European language|Proto-Indo-European]] root ''gnō-'', "to know".[https://www.bartleby.com/6 Stories are of ancient origin, existing in ancient Egyptian, Greek, Chinese and Indian [[culture]]s. Stories are also a ubiquitous component of human
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• Humanity
  ...uage are sometimes considered to be part of the arts, for example as the [[language arts]]. ...ac Newton]], have written their own [[colour theory]]. Moreover the use of language is only a generalisation for a colour equivalent. The word "[[red]]", for e
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• Paper 79 - Andite Expansion in the Orient
  ...ettlements and entered into [[trade]] [[relations]] with the progressive [[Chinese]] to the east and with the Andonites to the north. In those days the [https ...ssed]] by the blond types occasionally found in these regions. The early [[Chinese]] annals [[record]] the [[presence]] of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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• Motherhood
  ...in nearly every language on earth, countering the natural localization of language. * māma (妈妈/媽媽) in Chinese and Japanese
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• The Revolution of Everyday Life/ Fragments
  The historical crisis of language indicates the possibility of superseding it towards the poetry of action, t In a general way, the fight for language is the fight for the freedom to live, for the reversal of perspective. The
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• Intention
  ...operties that distinguish language describing psychological phenomena from language describing non-psychological phenomena. Chisholm's criteria for the intenti ...ne will never achieve. [[John Searle]] argued for this position with the [[Chinese room]] thought experiment, according to which no [[syntactic]] operations t
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• Intellectual History
  ...struction]], destablizes the relationship between language and objects the language refers to (scholarly sources [[Jean-François Lyotard|Lyotard]], [[Jacques ...philosophical system originally developed from the teachings of the early Chinese sage Confucius. Confucius was the founder of the teachings of Confucianism.
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• Brainwashing
  ...elligence agent], wrote a series of [[books]] and articles on the theme of Chinese brainwashing.[3] ...a "feudal" or capitalist mindset into "right-thinking" members of the new Chinese social [[system]]. To that end the regime developed [[techniques]] that wou
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• Eastern philosophy
  Chan (''Chinese'') or Zen (''Japanese'') is a fusion of the [[Dhyana]] school of [[Mahayana ''See also: [[Chinese Buddhism]] — [[Buddhism in Japan]] & [[Korean Buddhism]]''
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• Wikipedia
  ...year, [[Afrikaans]], [[Norwegian language|Norwegian]], and [[Serbocroatian language|Serbocroatian]] versions were announced. ...ed different languages (see [[#Wikipedia versions in other languages|other language versions]]), including a [https://simple.wikipedia.org Simple English] vers
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• Languages and Literature
  ...fically on the use of language by humans see the main article on [[natural language]]. == Properties of language ==
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• Culture
  * Language acquisition modules ...y Chinese and Chinese writing. Thus, in [[East Asia]], [[Chinese character|Chinese writing]] is generally agreed to exert a unifying influence. Religions, esp
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• Cultural
  * Language acquisition modules ...y Chinese and Chinese writing. Thus, in [[East Asia]], [[Chinese character|Chinese writing]] is generally agreed to exert a unifying influence. Religions, esp
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• Chakra
  ==Chakras and Chinese medicine== Traditional Chinese medicine also relies on a similar model of the human body as an [[energy]]
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• Meditation
  ...se or final outcome." In a form of meditation using visualization, such as Chinese [[Qi Gong]], the practitioner concentrates on flows of energy (Qi) in the b ...is cultivated through highly [[structure]]d [[ritual]]. Especially in the Chinese [[Chán]] Buddhism school (which branched out into the Japanese [[Zen]], an
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• Oral Tradition
  ...explore the implications of the theory for [[rhetoric]] and [[composition (language)|composition]], [[intergroup communication]], [[postcolonial studies]], [[r ...cs]] to children’s party games like “[[telephone (game)|telephone]]” or “[[Chinese whispers]]”. While games provide amusement by showing how messages disto
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