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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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