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The ledger was full of most precise information: date of laying, length of incubation period, number of chick reaching the first week, second week, fifth week, weight of hen, size of rooster's wattles and so on, all scrawled out in a hand that looked more Chinese than English, the most jagged and sprawling Alex had ever seen.
Most American Chinese establishments cater to non-Chinese customers with menus written in English or containing pictures.
" Pearl milk tea " is also used by English speakers and overseas Chinese and Taiwanese speakers, but it is usually called bubble tea.
* 珍珠奶茶 or 珍奶 for short ) (): " pearl milk tea ", or more commonly referred to as bubble tea by most English speakers and overseas Chinese speakers.
She illustrates the interplay between Chinese and English cinema tradition but ultimately suggests that Jen, as the " woman warrior " of the film, overthrows the European patriarchal tradition.
Most of them were Dutch, French, British ( English ), Arab and Jewish ( from Lebanon and Morocco ), Chinese ( especially from Macau ), American, and Brazilian ( including people of Portuguese and African descent ).
69. 4 % spoke English, 6. 9 % Spanish, 3. 2 % Chinese or Mandarin, 3. 0 % Portuguese, 2. 9 % French Creole, 2. 3 % French, 1. 5 % Korean, and 1. 0 % Italian as their first language.
Another result of the English influence on Chinese is the appearance in Modern Chinese texts of so-called 字母词 zìmǔcí ( lit.
In 1991 there were 2, 000 foreign learners taking China's official Chinese Proficiency Test ( comparable to the English Cambridge Certificate ), while in 2005, the number of candidates had risen sharply to 117, 660 .< ref > " 汉语水平考试中心 : 2005年外国考生总人数近12万 ",< sup > Gov. cn </ sup > Xinhua News Agency, January 16, 2006 .</ ref >
* Free Online Dictionary Look up Chinese, Pinyin or English ; includes stroke animation and sound.
Each civilian tile also has a Chinese name ( and common rough translation to English ): The 6-6 is tin ( 天 heaven ), 1-1 is dei ( 地 earth ), 4-4 is yan ( 人 man ), 1-3 is ngo ( 鵝 goose or 和 harmony ), 5-5 is mui ( 梅 plum flower ), 3-3 is cheung ( 長 long ), 2-2 is ban ( 板 board ), 5-6 is fu ( 斧 hatchet ), 4-6 is ping ( 屏 partition ), 1-6 is tsat ( 七 ) ( long leg seven ), and 1-5 is luk ( 六 ) ( big head six ).
The term is parallel to-ology in English, being used to construct the names of academic fields: the Chinese names of fields such as physics, chemistry, biology, political science, economics, and sociology all end in xué.
If the program is given to someone who speaks only English to execute the instructions of the program by hand, then in theory, the English speaker would also be able to carry on a conversation in written Chinese.
In Mandarin Chinese it is pronounced something like " chee " in English, but the tongue position is different.
Southeast Asian English comprises Singapore English and Malaysian English ; it features some influence from Malay, Chinese languages and dialects, and Indian English.
Nonetheless, the English language still enjoys status as an official language, alongside the Chinese language.
As the republicans were based in Canton ( a Cantonese speaking area, now commonly known as Guangzhou ), Chiang became known by Westerners under the Cantonese romanization of his courtesy name, while the family name as known in English seems to be the Mandarin pronunciation of his Chinese family name, transliterated in Wade-Giles )
Similarly, the monument erected to Chiang's memory in Taipei, known in English as Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, was literally named " Chung Cheng Memorial Hall " in Chinese.
They are considered loci of life energy or prana, also called shakti, qi ( Chinese ; ki in Japanese ), koach-ha-guf ( Hebrew ), bios ( Greek ) & aether ( Greek, English ), which is thought to flow among them along pathways called nadis.
* Chinese Text Project ( English Chinese ) ( Chinese philosophy texts in classical Chinese with English and modern Chinese translations )

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Purple Mountain: A Story of the Rape of Nanking ( A Novel ) English Chinese Bilingual Edition ( Paperback, 2009 ) ISBN 1-4486-5965-5
Shanghai's Luwan District published a controversial " Bilingual Instruction of Luwan District for Expo " phrasebook with English terms and Chinese characters approximating pronunciation: " Good morning!
** Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies
* Fan Kuan, A Bilingual Study of His Life & Works ( English & Chinese )
* Evokoo. com — A Bilingual ( Chinese and English ) CG community.
( Bilingual version with Chinese original and English translation: 《 蚕 》、《 篱下 》、《 雨夕 》、《 破车上 》、《 雁荡行 》、《 血红的九月 》、《 矛盾交响曲 》、《 银风筝下的伦敦 》 等近二十篇文学作品 。)

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In a similar manner, in imperial China, writers of classical Chinese texts were expected to avoid using characters contained within the name of the currently ruling emperor as a sign of respect.
However, Vietnamese rulers never accepted the vassalage relationship with China and always refused to come to Chinese courts to pay homage to Chinese rulers ( a sign of vassalage acceptance ).
Ribbentrop for his part, who valued Japanese friendship far more than Chinese friendship, argued that Germany and Japan should sign the pact even without Chinese participation.
In Han Chinese culture, the kowtow is the highest sign of reverence.
Many Westerners who first encountered the practice believed it was a sign of worship, but kowtowing does not necessarily have religious overtones in traditional Chinese culture.
The Japanese would later see this defeat as a sign of Chinese weakness, leading to their taking control of Manchuria.
In common usage, horoscope often refers to an astrologer's interpretation, usually based on a system of Sun sign astrology ; or on the calendar significance of an event, as in Chinese astrology.
Chinese expressway distances Expressways of Beijing | road sign in eastern Beijing.
The Buddhist sign has been standardized as a Chinese character ( pinyin: ) and as such entered various other East Asian languages such as Japanese where the symbol is called ().
No had previously been a member of a Chinese Tong, but after he stole a large amount of money from their treasury, he was captured by the organisation, whose leaders had his hands cut off as a sign of punishment for theft, and then ordered him shot.
Her efforts included a " Cultural Revolution-like pledge " in Chinese schools that required faculty members, staff, and students to publicly denounce Falun Gong, showing anti-Falun Gong propaganda movies, and the " Million Signature " campaign which required students to sign an anti-Falun Gong petition.
In Chinese, the traditional paragraph sign ( rendered as 〇 ) is a thin circle about the same size as a Chinese character.
As a paragraph sign, this mark only appears in older books, commonly found in the Chinese Union Version of the Bible.
Following this initial defeat, the PAP decided to re-assert ties with the labour faction of Singapore by promising to release the jailed members of the PAP and at the same time getting them to sign a document that they supported Lee Kuan Yew and the PAP, in the hope that it could attract the votes of working-class Chinese Singaporeans.
Sometimes Chinese people use the term " Descendants of the Dragon " () as a sign of ethnic identity, as part of a trend started in the 1970s when different Asian nationalities were looking for animal symbols for representations.
Also, the Chinese representatives in Paris refused to sign on the peace treaty: the May Fourth Movement won the initial victory.
U. S. analysts take so seriously the concept of ji ( planning ) that they take any sign of Chinese military cooperation ( e. g., sending troops to Sudan or giving information about Iran ’ s nuclear program ) cautiously.
Chinese people sometimes use the term " Descendants of the Dragon " as a sign of their ethnic identity.
These include the Japanese Sign Language family, Chinese Sign Language, Indo-Pakistani Sign Language, as well as a number of small indigenous sign languages of countries such as Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Most of these have the Chinese zodiac sign of the New Year as their design, or conventional greetings, or both.
The zodiac traditionally begins with the sign of the Rat, and there are many stories about the Origins of the Chinese Zodiac which explain why this is so ( see below ).
") This was argued by the government to be progress for Chinese democracy and a sign from Communist Party of China that they recognised the need for change, because the booming Chinese economy had created a new class of rich and middle class, who wanted protection of their own property.

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