Differing literary and colloquial readings for certain Chinese characters are a common feature of many Chinese varieties, and the reading distinctions...

communication; literary readings are close to modern Mandarin, normally appearing in written language. The literary and colloquial readings have been developing...

as follows: The literary and colloquial readings is a feature commonly found in all Chinese dialects throughout China. Literary readings are mainly used...

both literary and colloquial readings: This feature extends to Hokkien numerals, which have both literary and colloquial readings. Literary readings are...

literary and colloquial readings of Chinese characters—borrowed readings and native readings. In Chinese these borrowed readings and native readings are...

in initial, rime and tone: 網 ([mœŋ˦˨] / [uoŋ˧˨]) When there is a difference between literary and colloquial readings, the colloquial one is used in vernacular...

"dō" and 泉 "sen". In Chinese, most characters are associated with a single Chinese sound, though there are distinct literary and colloquial readings. However...

local spoken vernaculars, texts were read aloud using literary and colloquial readings that varied by region. Over time, sound mergers created ambiguities...

characters are referred to by their official name 简化字; jiǎnhuàzì, or colloquially as 简体字; jiǎntǐzì. The latter term refers broadly to all character variants...

complex rules for literary and colloquial readings of Chinese characters. For example, the character for big/great, 大, has a vernacular reading of tōa ([tua˧])...

set of traditional characters is regulated by the Ministry of Education and standardized in the Standard Form of National Characters. These forms were...

Mandarin, while literary readings tend to resemble modern standard Mandarin. For example, in the Yaoling dialect (摇铃话), the colloquial reading of "物" (means...

previous jōyō kanji list. Twenty-eight kanji gained new readings, three kanji lost obscure readings and the kun'yomi of 側 was changed from kawa (かわ) to gawa...

Chinese often come into existence due to differences between literary and colloquial readings of Chinese characters. Other homographs may have been created...

[y] and [u] in Mandarin, along with eastern Shanxi and some Southwestern Mandarin dialects. The existence of literary and colloquial readings is a notable...

/ˈrɛdɪŋ/) may also refer to: Literary and colloquial readings of Chinese characters Readings of kanji in Japanese Reading (computer), an action performed...

additionally developed systems of readings and annotations that enabled non-Chinese speakers to interpret Literary Chinese texts in terms of the local...

China and Taiwan, with minor vocabulary differences. It is the Mandarin variant used in education, media, and official settings. Meanwhile, a colloquial form...

reasonably be guessed to a compound with 示 'altar' as the semantic and 升 (modern reading sheng) as the phonetic. Though no modern character consists of these...

English alphabet. These have appeared in colloquial usage, as well as in magazines and newspapers, and on websites and television: Since the 20th century,...

characters (see Literary and colloquial readings of Chinese characters). The following examples in Pe̍h-oē-jī show differences in readings in Taiwanese Hokkien:...

Standard Chinese, it is not designed to replace characters for writing Literary Chinese, the standard written language prior to the early 20th century...

Differing literary and colloquial readings of certain Chinese characters are common doublets in many Chinese varieties, and the reading distinctions...

numerous varieties possess both literary and colloquial readings of Chinese characters for newer standard reading sounds. Since a 1909 decree of the...

vernacular literature, which excludes certain colloquial forms while incorporating some constructions from Literary Chinese. Similarly, written vernacular Chinese...

related scripts may have difficulty reading the cursive script. The character 草 cǎo primarily means "grass", and the character 書 shū means script in this...

and was adopted as the formal script across all of China during the Qin dynasty (221–206 BC). It was still widely used for decorative engraving and seals...

among non-Mandarin regional languages in having a written colloquial standard, used in Hong Kong and overseas, with a large number of unofficial characters...

Shanghainese. Wu, like other Chinese languages, have literary and colloquial readings of many characters. The literary layer was brought to the region during the...

following a 阴入 syllable. Therefore, 买 and 卖 has exactly the same pronunciation in literary and colloquial readings. The tone sandhi present in Suzhou dialect...