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...

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

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

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...

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˧])...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

words, they usually only have native kun readings. However, they occasionally also have a Chinese on reading derived from a related kanji, such as 働 (dō...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chinese script styles, emerging during the Three Kingdoms period c. 230 CE, and stylistically mature by the 7th century. It is the most common style used...

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

hiragana and katakana. When a character would have two readings, a diacritic may be added to the character to indicate the "indigenous" reading. The two...

However, literary readings of the numbers are used in certain contexts, such as reciting telephone numbers (see Literary and colloquial readings of Chinese...

dynasty (c. 1250 – c. 1046 BC) and Western Zhou dynasty (c. 1046 – 771 BC). Types of bronzes include zhong bells and ding tripodal cauldrons. Early inscriptions...