* 猫 ‎( hanyu pinyin: Māo ), a Chinese character meaning cat

Badí ‘ () ‎( 1852 – 1869 ), was the title of Mírzá Áqá Buzurg-i-Nishapuri, also known by his title the Pride of Martyrs, was the son of ` Abdu ' l-Majid-i-Nishapuri, a follower of the Báb and Bahá ' u ' lláh.

Her first major role for television was for the lead in the CBS miniseries, Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story ‎( 1999 ), in which she also sang.

Ahmad Shāh Qājār () ‎( January 21, 1898 – 21 February 1930 ) was Shah of Iran ( Persia ) from July 16, 1909, to October 31, 1925 and the last of the Qajar dynasty.

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Since then, and until 1989 the PRC translated " Chinese Taipei " as " Zhongguo Taipei " ( simplified chinese: 中国台北, traditional chinese: 中國臺北, hanyu pinyin: Zhōngguó Táiběi ), similar to " Zhongguo Hong Kong ", connoting that Taipei is a part of the Chinese state.

At the height of the movement to change place names in Singapore to Mandarin ones using hanyu pinyin romanization, the new town to be built in the area was initially known as Zhenghua ( 正华 ), along with Yishun ( 义顺 ) for Nee Soon, and Zhujiao market for tek kha ( 竹脚 ) market in Kandang Kerbau.

Chin Peng was born in late October 1924, into a middle class Hokchia ( hanyu pinyin: Fuqing ) family who gave him the name Ong Boon Hua, in the small seaside town of Sitiawan, in Perak state, Malaya.

The Chinese water chestnut ( traditional Chinese: 荸薺 ; simplified Chinese: 荸荠 ; hanyu pinyin: bíqi, 馬蹄 ; pinyin: mǎtí ) is native to China and is widely cultivated in flooded paddy fields in southern China and parts of the Philippines.

The name Typhoo comes from the Chinese word for " doctor " ( traditional Chinese: 大夫, hanyu pinyin: dài fū ).

Registered in 1944 as Ya Kun Coffeestall ( Ya Kun being Ah Koon in hanyu pinyin ), the stall gradually developed a reputation for delicious kaya toast and friendly service.

The name " Nanyang " is hanyu pinyin for the Chinese characters representing " South Sea ", which was what the mainland Chinese people referred to the region encompassed by Singapore, Malaysia and the Southeast Asian region.

The White-Haired Girl (; pinyin: Bái Máo Nǚ ) is a Chinese opera, ballet, ( later adapted to Beijing Opera and a film ) by Yan Jinxuan to a Chinese libretto.

It showed members of the Revive China Society, with Yeung Kui-wan ( 楊衢雲 or 杨衢云, pinyin Yáng Qúyún ), as President, in the place of honour, and Sun, as secretary, on the back row, along with members of the Japanese Chapter of the Revive China Society.

* Dong ( Chinese surname ), a transliteration of Chinese family names 董, 東 ( in Mandarin pinyin )

Chinese 祖国 ( simplified Chinese ), 祖國 ( traditional Chinese ) ( pinyin: zǔguó ) literally means " ancestral land " and not necessarily " motherland " or " fatherland.

The Kara-Khitan Khanate ( Traditional Chinese: 西遼 ; Simplified Chinese: 西辽 ; pinyin: Xī Liáo, 1124 – 1218 ), also known as Western Liao, was established by Yelü Dashi ( 耶律大石 ) who led around 100, 000 Khitan remnants after escaping the Jurchen conquest of their native country, the Khitan dynasty.

Tao is intrinsically related to the concepts yin and yang ( pinyin: yīnyáng ), where every action creates counter-actions as unavoidable movements within manifestations of the Tao, and proper practice variously involves accepting, conforming to, or working with these natural developments.

Ancestral veneration in some cultures ( such as Chinese ) ( 敬祖, pinyin: jìngzǔ ), as well as ancestor worship ( 拜祖, pinyin: bàizǔ ), seeks to honor and reminiscence the actions of the deceased ; the ultimate homage to the dead.

Outside mainland China, it has mostly been replaced by the pinyin system ( developed by the Chinese government and approved during 1958 ), but remains common in history books, particularly those about Imperial China.

Taiwan has used Wade – Giles for decades as the de facto standard, co-existing with several official but obscure romanizations in succession, namely, Gwoyeu Romatzyh ( 1928 ), MPS II ( 1986 ), and Tongyong pinyin ( 2000 ).

** tzu for tsû ( pinyin zi ), but it still remains ts-before other vowels, as in tsung for the Pinyin zong.

** tz ' u for ts ' û ( pinyin ci ), but remains ts '- before other vowels.

** szu or ssu for ssû ( pinyin si ), but is s-before other vowels.

These empty rimes are all written as-i in Hanyu pinyin ( hence distinguishable only by context from true i as in li ), and all written as-ih in Tongyong Pinyin.

* Chinese: 穇子 ( Traditional ), 䅟子 ( Simplified ), cǎnzi ( pinyin )

The Shang Dynasty ( Chinese: 商朝 ; pinyin: shāng cháo ) or Yin Dynasty ( 殷代 ; pinyin: yīn dài ), according to traditional historiography, ruled in the Yellow River valley in the second millennium BC, succeeding the Xia Dynasty and followed by the Zhou Dynasty.

The Hai River (), previously called Bai He ( Chinese: 白河 ; pinyin: Bái Hé ; literally " White River "; Pei Ho in Western sources ), is a river in the People's Republic of China which flows through Beijing and Tianjin before emptying into the Yellow Sea at the Bohai Gulf.

The character was reserved for mythological rulers until the first emperor of Qin ( Qin Shi Huang ), who created a new title Huangdi ( 皇帝 in pinyin: huáng dì ) for himself in 221 BCE, which is commonly translated as Emperor in English.

Although formally the Son of Heaven ( 天子, pinyin: tiānzǐ ), where the Heaven refers to the celestial heavens or the universe, the power of the emperor varied between emperors and dynasties, with some emperors being absolute rulers and others being figureheads with actual power lying in the hands of court factions, eunuchs, the bureaucracy or noble families.

Here is an example of a normal Chinese sentence, then what it would look like with spaces between words, then a pinyin transcription ( in which words are normally divided ), and finally an English translation:

Ginkgo ( Ginkgo biloba ; in Chinese and Japanese 銀杏, pinyin romanization: yín xìng, Hepburn romanization: ichō or ginnan ), also spelled gingko and known as the Maidenhair Tree, is a unique species of tree with no close living relatives.

The Book of Common Prayer is called 公禱書 in Chinese ( pinyin: Gong Dao Shu, Jyutping: Gung Tou Sy ).

Hundreds of Chinese input methods are available for entry of Chinese characters into computers, but most keyboard-based methods rely on either pinyin phonetic readings or root shapes in Chinese characters.

* Open-source Pinyin Chinese Input Method Editor: A free and open-source JavaScript jQuery plugin for web developers to build the pinyin input-method functionality into their own websites, supporting input for both simplified and traditional characters.

Chuanr ( Chinese: 串儿, pinyin: chuànr ( shortened from " chuan er "); " kebab "), originating in the Xinjiang ( 新疆 ) province of China and in recent years has been disseminated throughout the rest of that country, most notably in Beijing.

Its name derives from the Sanskrit word for " wheel " or " turning " ( चक ् र ं, pronounced in Hindi ; Pali: cakka चक ् क, Oriya: ଚକ ୍ ର, Malayalam: ചക ് ര ം, Thai: จ ั กระ, Telugu: చక ్ రo, Tamil: சக ் கரம ், Kannada: ಚಕ ್ ರ, Chinese: 輪 / 轮, pinyin: lún,, Wylie: khor lo ).

In loanword terminology, English Taoism / Daoism is a " calque ", " loan-rendering ", or " hybrid " that blends a borrowed word with a native element, for example, chopstick ) blends Chinese Pidgin English chop (< Cantonese kàp, pinyin kuài 快 " fast ; quick ") with English stick.

However, many of these traditionalists will accept using pinyin for more recent Chinese borrowings.

Others prefer pinyin-based Daoism because of growing acceptance internationally of Hanyu Pinyin as the standard romanization for Chinese, as reflected in other recent spelling changes such as the pinyin Beijing that replaced the Wade Pei-ching or Chinese Postal Map Romanization Peking.

The Qin Dynasty ( Chinese: 秦朝 ; pinyin: Qín Cháo ) was the first ruling dynasty of Imperial China, lasting from 221 to 206 BC.

The Han Dynasty ( simplified Chinese: 汉朝 ; traditional Chinese: 漢朝 ; pinyin: Hàn Cháo ; 206 BCE – 220 CE ) was the second imperial dynasty of China, preceded by the Qin Dynasty and succeeded by the Three Kingdoms ( 220 – 265 CE ). Spanning over four centuries, the period of the Han Dynasty is considered a golden age in Chinese history. To this day, China's majority ethnic group refers to itself as the " Han people ".

Pai gow (; pinyin: pái jiǔ ; jyutping: paai4 gau2 ) is a Chinese gambling game, played with a set of 32 Chinese dominoes.

The dagger-axe, or GUH ( Chinese: 戈 ; pinyin: gē ; Wade-Giles: ko ; sometimes confusingly translated " halberd ") is a type of weapon that was in use from Shang dynasty until at least Han dynasty China.