Hougang is an urban planning area and a suburb in the north-eastern area of the city-state of Singapore.

Most of Hougang is residential and encompasses the main Housing and Development Board's housing estate of Hougang New Town. Hougang is expected to have Tram Services by Mid 2013.

( Above Error: The name Hougang stems from the Hokkien and Teochew word Au-Kang, which refers to the ‘ river end ’, as Hougang is located upstream or at the back of Sungei Serangoon.

At Hougang Street 21, there was a well that is still identified as the tua jia ka well structure.

Hougang is regarded as part of the " heartland " of Singapore, a significant distance away from the Central Area.

Most of its commercial activity is centred on a few shopping malls such as Hougang Mall, Hougang Plaza, Kang Kar Mall, Heartland Mall and Hougang Festival Market.

One of the more prominent landmarks in Hougang is the Buangkok Green Medical Park, which houses several medical facilities including the Institute of Mental Health ( IMH ) and Singapore Leprosy Relief Association ( SILRA ).

Hougang is served by two MRT stations: Hougang MRT Station which is located beside the bus interchange and Hougang Mall ; and Kovan MRT Station which is beside Heartland Mall.

Many Singaporean Chinese residents in the town speak the Teochew language as many were formerly from a Teochew community at Kampong Punggol before being relocated to Hougang.

Many of the Singaporean Chinese residents in Hougang speak the Teochew language, because they were originally from Kampong Ponggol, a predominantly Teochew community, before they were relocated to Hougang as Singapore began developing.

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

Although the pinyin method is easier to learn, root shapes are often preferred by professional typists due to their faster input speed.

The pinyin method can be learned rapidly but its maximum input rate is limited.

In mainland China, wubi ( shape-based ) and pinyin methods such as Sogou Pinyin and Google Pinyin are the most popular ; in Taiwan, Boshiamy, Cangjie, and zhuyin predominate ; and in Hong Kong, Cangjie is most often taught in schools.

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.

" Daodejing " is the pinyin romanization.

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 ".

* In the People's Republic of China, a direct-controlled municipality ( 直辖市 in pinyin: zhíxiáshì ) is a city with equal status to a province: Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Chongqing ( see Municipality of China )

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.

The Chinese Dao ( 刀 pinyin dāo ) is single-edged, sometimes translated as sabre or broadsword, and the Jian ( 劍or剑 pinyin jiàn ) is double-edged.

Although the official pinyin romanisation now is Sichuan, the cuisine is still often spelled Szechuan or Szechwan in North America.

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.

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

What is pronounced as a close-mid back unrounded vowel is written usually as-e as in pinyin, but sometimes as-o.

What is actually pronounced as-uo is virtually always written as-o in Wade – Giles, except shuo and the three syllables of kuo, k < nowiki >'</ nowiki > uo, and huo, which already have the counterparts of ko, k < nowiki >'</ nowiki > o, and ho that represent pinyin ge, ke, and he.

* The pinyin vowel cluster ong is ung in Wade – Giles.

* Single i is never preceded by y, as in pinyin.

* The isolated syllable eh is written as ê, like in pinyin.

In short, the fictional private eye is a specialized version of Adam Smith's ideal entrepreneur, the man whose private ambitions must always and everywhere promote the public welfare.

He terms this early enthusiasm `` Romantic Christianity '' and concludes that its similarity to democratic beliefs of that day is so great that `` the doctrine of liberty seems but a secular version of its counterpart in evangelical Protestantism ''.

In his stead is a milquetoast version known as `` the corporation ''.

Some of the poetic cadence of the older version certainly is lost in the newer one, but almost anyone, with a fair knowledge of the English language, can understand the meaning, without the necessity of interpretation by a Biblical scholar.

For the most part, however, the new version is contemporary and, as such, should be the means for many to attain a clearer comprehension of the meaning of those words recorded so many hundreds of years ago by the first followers of Christ.

It is blind, fundamentalist dogmatism to say, `` Messing around with the King James version seems to us a perilous sport at best ''.

For example, a Browning trap version of the Superposed over/under, the Broadway ( from $350 up, depending on grade ), differs from standard models in that it is equipped with a full beavertail fore end, a cushion recoil pad and a barrel-wide ventilated rib for fast sighting.

this is an improved version of the old Model 200, a pump-action 12-gauge shotgun.

A simplified version of the instrumentation for this procedure is shown in Fig. 2.

Fing, a lean, chiseled, impeccable gentleman of the old school who was once mistaken on the street for Sir Cedric Hardwicke, is responsible for the rediscovery of Verdi's earliest, most raucous opera, Nabisco, a sumptuous bout-de-souffle with a haunting leitmotiv that struck me as being highly reminiscent of the Mudugno version of `` Volare ''.

The specific instance I have in mind is the Afro-Asian version which has gained prominence only in this second half of the twentieth century.

The `` Taras Bulba '' excerpt is a rousing version of Gogol's Ukrainian folk-tale choreographed by Bo Fenster to music of Soloviev-Sedoi.

As with most mythology, there is a tale which offers an alternative version of these events: in Argonautica ( iv. 760 ) Zeus ' sister and wife Hera alludes to Thetis ' chaste resistance to the advances of Zeus, that Thetis was so loyal to Hera's marriage bond that she coolly rejected him.

Doing so does not create another version of TAI ; it is instead considered to be creating a better realisation of Terrestrial Time ( TT ).

This call is modified to a quieter courtship call on the approach of a female or to a more aggressive version if a male intruder draws near.

Possibly the most notable current version of " America the Beautiful " is the setting for band and symphonic orchestra by the late arranger / conductor / composer Carmen Dragon.

The following is a more subtle version of the fallacy embedded into conversation.

Asteroids is also the first game to use Atari's " QuadraScan " vector-refresh system ; a full-color version known as " Color-QuadraScan " was later developed for games such as Space Duel and Tempest.

For Altaicists, the version of Altaic they favor is given at the end of the entry, if other than the prevailing one of Turkic – Mongolic – Tungusic – Korean – Japanese.

Similarly, all the statements listed below which require choice or some weaker version thereof for their proof are unprovable in ZF, but since each is provable in ZF plus the axiom of choice, there are models of ZF in which each statement is true.

In the 1998 version, Alliaceae were a distinct family ; in the 2003 version, combining the Alliaceae with the Agapanthaceae and the Amaryllidaceae sensu stricto was recommended but optional ; in the 2009 version, only the broad circumscription of the Amaryllidaceae is allowed, with the Alliaceae reduced to a subfamily, Allioideae.

This early version of Miss Marple is a gleeful gossip and not an especially nice woman.