• Differing literary and colloquial readings for certain Chinese characters are a common feature of many Chinese varieties, and the reading distinctions...
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    degree in Chinese varieties, where there are literary and colloquial readings of Chinese characters—borrowed readings and native readings. In Chinese these...
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    in Old Chinese or Middle Chinese often come into existence due to differences between literary and colloquial readings of Chinese characters. Other homographs...
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  • Chinese characters are generally logographs, but can be further categorized based on the manner of their creation or derivation. Some characters may be...
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  • additionally developed systems of readings and annotations that enabled non-Chinese speakers to interpret Literary Chinese texts in terms of the local vernacular...
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    Chengdu-Chongqing dialect (category CS1 Chinese-language sources (zh))
    pronunciations have the tendency to disappear. Literary and colloquial readings of Chinese characters in Chengdu are shown below. Note: the table is only...
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  • vernacular Chinese, also known as baihua, comprises forms of written Chinese based on the vernacular varieties of the language spoken throughout China. It is...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • /ˈrɛdɪŋ/) may also refer to: Literary and colloquial readings of Chinese characters Readings of kanji in Japanese Reading (computer), an action performed...
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    Chinese characters are logographs used to write the Chinese languages and others from regions historically influenced by Chinese culture. Chinese characters...
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    radical (Chinese: 部首; pinyin: bùshǒu; lit. 'section header'), or indexing component, is a visually prominent component of a Chinese character under which...
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  • Chinese characters are one of two standardized character sets widely used to write the Chinese language, with the other being traditional characters....
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  • On'yomi (redirect from On reading)
    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...
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  • Jōyō kanji (category Chinese character lists)
    kanji The Table of General Standard Chinese Characters, a similar standardized list of characters published by the Chinese Ministry of Education, including...
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    contexts, such as reciting telephone numbers (see Literary and colloquial readings of Chinese characters).[citation needed] During the Yuan dynasty, Quanzhou...
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  • Written Hokkien (category CS1 uses Chinese-language script (zh))
    of Chinese characters (see Literary and colloquial readings of Chinese characters). The following examples in Pe̍h-oē-jī show differences in readings...
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    History of Chinese writing Unihan Database – Chinese, Japanese, and Korean references, readings, and meanings for all the Chinese and Chinese-derived...
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  • 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...
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    as follows: The literary and colloquial readings is a feature commonly found in all Chinese dialects throughout China. Literary readings are mainly used...
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  • Written Chinese is a writing system that uses Chinese characters and other symbols to represent the Chinese languages. Chinese characters do not directly...
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    Chinese characters may have several variant forms—visually distinct glyphs that represent the same underlying meaning and pronunciation. Variants of a...
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    traditional Chinese characters and simplified Chinese characters is an ongoing dispute concerning Chinese orthography among users of Chinese characters. It has...
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    uses a combination of logographic kanji, which are adopted Chinese characters, and syllabic kana. Kana itself consists of a pair of syllabaries: hiragana...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • Several input methods allow the use of Chinese characters with computers. Most allow selection of characters based either on their pronunciation or their...
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    Amoy dialect (category City colloquials)
    rules for literary and colloquial readings of Chinese characters. For example, the character for big/great, 大, has a vernacular reading of tōa ([tua˧])...
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  • be spoken outside of China. Many varieties also have literary and colloquial readings of Chinese characters for newer standard reading sounds. Since a 1909...
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