• Written vernacular Chinese, also known as baihua, comprises forms of written Chinese based on the vernacular varieties of the language spoken throughout...
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  • Written Chinese (Chinese: 中文; pinyin: Zhōngwén) is a writing system that uses Chinese characters and other symbols to represent the Chinese languages...
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  • Chinese is the language in which the classics of Chinese literature were written, from c. the 5th century BCE. For millennia thereafter, the written Chinese...
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    literary language of China until the 19th century. Written vernacular Chinese first appeared in the 17th century, and a written form of Mandarin became...
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  • novels were written in written vernacular Chinese, an evolution from the preeminence of Literary Chinese patterned off the language of the Chinese classics...
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  • written forms of Cantonese and Vernacular Chinese (Mandarin). In Taiwan, a standard for Written Hokkien has been developed by the Republic of China Ministry...
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    The Chinese Wikipedia (traditional Chinese: 中文維基百科; simplified Chinese: 中文维基百科; pinyin: Zhōngwén Wéijī Bǎikē) is the written vernacular Chinese (a form...
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    for the local varieties. The new standard written vernacular Chinese, the counterpart of spoken Standard Chinese, is similarly used as a literary form by...
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  • Vernacular is the ordinary, informal, spoken form of language (though possibly written), particularly when perceived as being of lower social status in...
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    replace literary Chinese. While written vernacular forms of other varieties of Chinese exist, such as written Cantonese, written Chinese based on Mandarin...
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  • Chinese in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Standard Chinese is the official language of China Standard Chinese may also refer to: Written vernacular...
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    the standard vernacular Mandarin from Literary Chinese and other varieties of Chinese. The term "Countrywide common spoken and written language" (国家通用语言文字)...
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    MAN-dər-in; simplified Chinese: 官话; traditional Chinese: 官話; pinyin: Guānhuà; lit. 'officials' speech') is a group of Chinese language dialects that are...
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    Chengyu (redirect from Chinese idiom)
    consist of four Chinese characters. Chengyu were widely used in Literary Chinese and are still common in written vernacular Chinese writing and in the...
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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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  • Vernacular literature is literature written in the vernacular—the speech of the "common people". In the European tradition, this effectively means literature...
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    Old Chinese spoken in ancient times. Although written vernacular Chinese had replaced Classical Chinese and emerged as the mainstream written Chinese in...
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    use written vernacular Chinese, which is used by all Chinese speakers. Protection of the Varieties of Chinese Portals:  Language  China Gan Chinese at...
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  • 1919, and to accommodate the translation of Western literature, written vernacular Chinese developed separate pronouns for gender-differentiated speech,...
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    Classical Chinese was quickly replaced by written vernacular Chinese, modeled after the vocabulary and grammar of the standard spoken language. Chinese calligraphy...
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  • poetry tradition, written or chanted in specialized, literary forms versus modern changes both in vernacular varieties of Chinese as well as the development...
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  • Compared to the written vernacular Chinese of today, the most notable difference is that Classical Chinese rarely uses words composed of two Chinese characters;...
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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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    time-consuming. Chinese text written before the 20th century was in Classical Chinese, which is much different from the written vernacular Chinese used today, even...
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  • recognisable to the modern reader of Chinese. Over 90% of the characters used in modern written vernacular Chinese are phono-semantic compounds. However...
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  • modern varieties of Chinese. Written vernacular Chinese (白话; 白話; báihuà), refers to written Chinese that is based on the vernacular language used during...
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    Four Classic Novels in Chinese opera Classic Chinese Novels (traditional Chinese: 古典小說; simplified Chinese: 古典小说; pinyin: gǔdiǎn xiǎoshuō) are the best-known...
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    Sam Hui (category Articles containing traditional Chinese-language text)
    infusion of Western-style music and his usage of vernacular Cantonese rather than written vernacular Chinese in biting lyrics that addressed contemporary...
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    of the Beijing dialect of Mandarin Chinese and the grammar of written vernacular Chinese in the early 20th century. Standard Guoyu pronunciations tend...
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  • Literary language (category Articles containing Chinese-language text)
    centuries. Starting from early 20th century, written vernacular Chinese (simplified Chinese: 白话文; traditional Chinese: 白話文; pinyin: báihuàwén) became the literary...
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