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

in Old Chinese or Middle Chinese often come into existence due to differences between literary and colloquial readings of Chinese characters. Other homographs...

degree in Chinese varieties, where there are literary and colloquial readings of Chinese characters—borrowed readings and native readings. In Chinese these...

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

Chinese characters are generally logographs, but can be further categorized based on the manner of their creation or derivation. Some characters may be...

literature written in Literary Chinese. The term Hán Nôm (漢喃 'Han and chữ Nôm characters') in Vietnamese designates the whole body of premodern written materials...

vernacular Chinese, also known as baihua, comprises forms of written Chinese based on the vernacular varieties of the language spoken throughout China. It is...

pronunciations have the tendency to disappear. Literary and colloquial readings of Chinese characters in Chengdu are shown below. Note: the table is only...

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

Traditional Chinese characters are a standard set of Chinese character forms used to write Chinese languages. In Taiwan, the set of traditional characters is regulated...

Chinese characters are logographs used to write the Chinese languages and others from regions historically influenced by Chinese culture. Chinese characters...

Chinese characters are one of two standardized character sets widely used to write the Chinese language, with the other being traditional characters....

contexts, such as reciting telephone numbers (see Literary and colloquial readings of Chinese characters).[citation needed] During the Yuan dynasty, Quanzhou...

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

literary and colloquial readings. However, some homographs (多音字) such as 行 (Mandarin: háng or xíng, Japanese: an, gō, gyō) have more than one reading...

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

kanji The Table of General Standard Chinese Characters, a similar standardized list of characters published by the Chinese Ministry of Education, including...

traditional Chinese characters and simplified Chinese characters is an ongoing dispute concerning Chinese orthography among users of Chinese characters. It has...

Written Chinese is a writing system that uses Chinese characters and other symbols to represent the Chinese languages. Chinese characters do not directly...

Chinese characters may have several variant forms—visually distinct glyphs that represent the same underlying meaning and pronunciation. Variants of a...

History of Chinese writing Unihan Database – Chinese, Japanese, and Korean references, readings, and meanings for all the Chinese and Chinese-derived...

Chinese: 新加坡华语; traditional Chinese: 新加坡華語; pinyin: Xīnjiāpō Huáyǔ) is a variety of Mandarin Chinese spoken natively in Singapore. Mandarin is one of...

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

uses a combination of logographic kanji, which are adopted Chinese characters, and syllabic kana. Kana itself consists of a pair of syllabaries: hiragana...

China, to communicate in writing, in a role similar to that of Latin in Europe. Literary Chinese as written in Vietnam used the same characters and outward...

People's Republic of China and promulgated in June 2013. The project began in 2001, originally named the "Table of Standard Chinese Characters." This table...

Chinese (simplified Chinese: 汉语; traditional Chinese: 漢語; pinyin: Hànyǔ; lit. 'Han language' or 中文; Zhōngwén; 'Chinese writing') is a group of languages...

radical (Chinese: 部首; pinyin: bùshǒu; lit. 'section header'), or indexing component, is a visually prominent component of a Chinese character under which...

However, colloquial readings tend to display tones ① and ③, whereas literary readings tend to display ② and ⑤. The preservation of the literary readings is...

"national characters") or Wasei kanji (和製漢字, "Japanese-made kanji") are kanji created in Japan rather than borrowed from China. Like most Chinese characters, they...