In the ba gua, metal is associated with the divination figure 兌 Duì (☱, the lake or marsh: 澤 / 泽 zé ) and with 乾 Qián (☰, the sky or heavens: 天 tiān ).

The Thousand Character Classic is composed of 250 phrases of 4 characters each from " 天地玄黃 " ( jyutping: tin1 dei6 jyun4 wong4, pinyin: tiān dì xuán huáng ) to " 焉哉乎也 " ( jyutping: yin1 zoi1 fu1 jaa5, pinyin: yān zāi hū yě ).

The Oxford English Dictionary enters the English loanword t ' ien ( also tayn, tyen, tien, and tiān ) " Chinese thought: Heaven ; the Deity.

Chinese adjectives () differ from those in English in that they can be used as verbs ( for example 天黑了 tiān hēi le " The sky has become dark ") and thus linguists sometimes prefer to use the terms static or stative verb to describe them.

The Modern Standard Chinese pronunciation of 天 " sky, heaven ; heavenly deity, god " is tiān in level first tone.

The woman with the longest posthumous name is Empress Cixi, who is " The Empress who is Admirably Filial, Initiates Kindness, with Blessed Health, Manifests Much Contentment, Solemn Sincerity, with Longevity, Provides Admiration Prosperously, Reveal Adoration, Prosperous with a Merry Heaven, with a Holy Appearance " ( 孝欽慈禧端佑康頤昭豫莊誠壽恭欽獻崇熙配天興聖顯皇后 xiào qīn cí xǐ duān yòu kāng yí zhāo yù zhuāng chéng shòu gōng qīn xiàn chóng xī pèi tiān xīng shèng xiǎn huáng hòu ), or 孝欽顯皇后 for short.

In the Shujing, the sentence " 地平天成 " ( dì píng tiān chéng ; Kanbun: 地平かに天成る Chi tairaka ni ten naru ) appears.

It became one of the most important sutras in Japan because of its fundamental message, which teaches that the Four Guardian Gods ( Chinese: 四大天王 ; pinyin: sì dà tiān wáng ) protect the ruler who governs his country in the proper manner.

The sutra also expounds the vows of the Hindu goddesses Sarasvati ( Chinese: 大辨才天 ; pinyin: dà biàn cái tiān ), Lakshmi ( Shri )( Chinese: 大功德天 ; pinyin: dà gōng dé tiān ) and Drdha, the Earth Goddess, to protect any bhikshu, or monk, who will uphold and teach the sutra.

The Chinese word for " sky " 天 ( Mandarin: tiān ) may also be related, possibly a loan from a prehistoric Central Asian language.

The Crippled Masters ( 天殘地缺, Hanyu Pinyin: tiān cán dì quē ) is a kung fu movie released in 1979.

For instance, that of the Shunzhi Emperor was " The Emperor of Order who Observes the Heavenly Rituals with a Solemn Fate, Destined to Unify, Establishes with Extreme Talented Insights, Admires the Arts, Manifests the Might, with Great Virtue and Vast Achievement, Reaches Humanity, Purely Filial " ( 體天隆運定統建極英睿欽文顯武大德弘功至仁純孝章皇帝,: tǐ tiān lóng yùn dìng tǒng jiàn jí yīng ruì qīn wén xiǎn wǔ dà dé hóng gōng zhì rén chún xiào zhāng huáng dì ).

Formula 17 ( 17歲的天空, pinyin: shí qī suì de tiān kōng ) is a 2004 film which was directed by Chen Yin-jung ( 陳映蓉 ).

The plant has been used in traditional Chinese medicine, where it is called hóng jǐng tiān ( 红景天 ).

According to Book of Zhou and History of Northern Dynasties, Ashina was a branch of Xiongnus and according to Book of Sui and Tongdian, they were " mixed Barbarians " ( 雜胡 / 杂胡, Pinyin: zá hú, Wade-Giles: tsa hu ) from Pingliang.

* 地胡 ( dì hú / dei < sup > 6 </ sup > wu < sup > 4 </ sup >)-Known in English typically as the earthly hand or the earthly victory, this occurs when a non-dealer wins off the dealer's first discard.

* 屁胡 ( pì hú / pei < sup > 3 </ sup > wu < sup > 4 </ sup >)-Also known in some circles as 推倒胡 ( tuī dǎo hú / teoi1 dit3 wu4 ) or 雞胡 ( ji hú / gai < sup > 1 </ sup > wu < sup > 4 </ sup > " Chicken Hand "), this is used to describe a winning hand worth zero fān, or no points.

* 詐胡 ( zhà hú / zaa < sup > 3 </ sup > wu < sup > 4 </ sup >)-Known in English literally as a trick hand, used to describe a " false alarm " when a player claims to have won the amount claimed but in fact has not.

Besides faulting Chinese for lacking a general " barbarian " term, Beckwith also faults English, which " has no words for the many foreign peoples referred to by one or another Classical Chinese word, such as胡 hú, 夷 yí, 蠻 mán, and so on.

Old English ú became in Early Scots then in Middle Scots, remaining so but Stem final it became in Southern Scots, for example Modern Scots: brou ( brow ), broun ( brown ), cou ( cow ), dou ( dove ), doun ( down ), hoose ( house ), hou ( how ), mou ( mouth ), moose ( mouse ), nou ( now ), soor ( sour ) and thoum ( thumb ) from brú, brún, cú, dúfe, dún, hús, hú, múð, mús, nú, súr and ðúma.

But the Chinese word huǒ ​ hú ​ refers to the Firefox web browser.

She is a wuya, one of the chief kachinas and is considered the mother of all the hú and all the kachinas.

Fenugreek seeds are used as a medicinal in Traditional Chinese Medicine under the name Hu Lu Ba ( Traditional Chinese: 胡蘆巴, Simplified Chinese: 胡芦巴, Pinyin: hú lú bā ), where they are considered to warm and tonify kidneys, disperse cold and alleviate pain.

The second character ( 胡, hú ) indicates that it is a member of the huqin family.

In the Chinese language, the edible, cultivated walnut is called 胡桃 ( hú táo in Mandarin ), which means literally " Hu peach ", suggesting the ancient Chinese associated the introduction of the tree into East Asia with the Hu barbarians of the regions north and northwest of China.

The most famous wares made for yixing clay are Yixing clay teapots ( 宜興紫砂壺 ; yíxīng zǐshā hú ).

The term may also refer to certain types of nickel silver alloys as well as Cu-Zn-Sn alloys with high proportions ( typically 40 %+) of tin and / or zinc, as well as predominantly zinc casting alloys with copper additive.

The Chalcolithic ( khalkos " copper " + lithos " stone ") period or Copper Age, also known as the Eneolithic / Æneolithic ( from Latin aeneus " of bronze "), is a phase of the Bronze Age in which the addition of tin to copper to form bronze during smelting remained yet unknown by the metallurgists of the times.

One popular expression is that TCP / IP, the eventual product of Cerf and Kahn's work, will run over " two tin cans and a string.

In 1995, Alberto Barbieri at the Cardiff University Laboratory ( GB ) investigated the efficiency and reliability of high-brightness LEDs and demonstrated a very impressive result by using a transparent contact made of indium tin oxide ( ITO ) on ( AlGaInP / GaAs ) LED.

The activator causes the tin / silver to harden.

This law requires SEC-regulated companies to conduct third party audits of the company supply chains, determine whether any tin, tantalum, tungsten or gold ( together referred to as conflict minerals ) is made of ore mined / sourced from the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( DRC ), and create a report ( available to the general public and SEC ) detailing the supply chain due diligence efforts undertaken and the results of the audit.

By combining copper with tin and / or arsenic in the right proportions one obtains bronze, an alloy which is significantly harder than copper.

Copper / tin bronzes, harder and more durable, were developed around 3200 BC, also in Asia Minor.

The process through which the smiths learned to produce copper / tin bronzes is once again a mystery.

A eutectic alloy of 63 % tin, 37 % lead is widely used ; alloys with larger proportions of lead ( 60 / 40, etc.

Tin / lead solders, also called soft solders, are commercially available with tin concentrations between 5 % and 70 % by weight.

# has the lowest melting point ( 183 ° C or 361. 4 ° F ) of all the tin / lead alloys ; and

The Mines Act of 1842 banned women / children from working in coal, iron, lead and tin mining.

In the 1298 book Zao Huozi Yinshufa ( 造活字印书法 / 造活字印書法 ) of the Chinese official Wang Zhen, there is mention of tin movable type, but this was largely experimental.

* Many leats used for tin mining are marked on the 1 / 50000 and 1 / 25000 Ordnance Survey maps, such as that serving the now-defunct Vitifer mine near the Warren House Inn.

For PTH ( plated-through holes ), additional steps of electroless deposition are done after the holes are drilled, then copper is electroplated to build up the thickness, the boards are screened, and plated with tin / lead.

The tin / lead becomes the resist leaving the bare copper to be etched away.

One method is to start with a sheet of brass shim or metal reclaimed from an aluminium drinks can or tin foil / aluminum foil, use fine sand paper to reduce the thickness of the centre of the material to the minimum, before carefully creating a pinhole with a suitably sized needle.

* The superhero / trickster figure of Uncle Sam in Robert Coover's The Public Burning ( 1977, New York, Grove Books ) is described in the following terms ( p. 7 ): " American Autolycus, they called him in the Gospels, referring to his cunning powers of conjuration, transmutation, and magical consumption ( he can play the shell game, not with a mere pea, but with whole tin mines, forests, oil fields, mountain ranges, and just before Thanksgiving this past year made an entire island disappear!

He displayed arguably virtuoso skills on the hammered and lap dulcimers ( in " Calling out Your Name " and " Creed ") and the Irish tin whistle ( in " Boy Like Me / Man Like You " and " The Color Green ").

The large tin buildings are decorated with the " contemporary art " / graffiti of local adolescents.

* B8 (" Focused Bright ")/ B8 Pro (" Focused Brilliant ")-Student / entry-level cymbals made of B8 bronze alloy ( 92 % copper, 8 % tin ).

The original series has spawned: several successful novelty western / folk albums from 1962 – 1965 ; three dozen Dell and Gold Key comic books from 1962 through 1970 ; Jim Beam Whiskey Ponderosa Ranch decanters 1964 – 1966 ; a series of " Big-Little " books from 1966 – 1969 ; Revel Bonanza model character sets from 1966 – 1968 ; a chain of Bonanza and Ponderosa steakhouses from 1963 – present ; the Lake Tahoe-based " Ponderosa " theme park from 1967 – 2004 ; a line of American Character action figures in 1966 – 1967 ; Aladdin lunch buckets and thermos bottles in 1966 – 1968 ; View Master slide sets from 1965 – 1973 ; Ponderosa tin cups from 1967 – 2004 ; a series of Hamilton collector plates in 1989 – 1990 ; and most recently, Breyer Fiftieth Anniversary Ponderosa Stable sets, with horses and Cartwright figures in 2009 – 2011.

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