For the same reason, Kung-fu ( Pinyin gōngfú 功夫 " ability ", meaning " Chinese martial arts ") is pronounced instead of.

In Chinese, kung fu ( 功夫, gōng meaning " work " or " achievement " and either fū, " man ", or fu, a particle or suffix which can mean " intensity ")

And, after becoming the right-hand man of Enver Pasha, he is sent by the latter to pave the way for a new Turkish Empire embracing `` the union of all Turks throughout Central Asia from Adrianople to the Chinese oases on the Silk Trade Route ''.

but I am also a young, able and willing girl who wants to study the Chinese language but is not old enough.

The Free Chinese know that the situation on the Mainland is in flux, and are poised to strike.

It is extremely doubtful that the handful of Albanians who call themselves Communists could have done this without the direct approval of their Chinese friends.

The big question is whether, in the name of a restored Chinese-Soviet solidarity, the Chinese will choose to persuade the Albanians to present their humble apologies to Khrushchev -- or get rid of Enver Hoxa.

And the Chinese, as the Albanian incident shows, have strong suspicions that Khrushchev is anxious to secure a `` shameful '' peace with the West.

The Chinese, North Vietnamese and North Koreans, on the other hand, feel that, militarily, Russia is strong enough to support them in the `` just wars of liberation '' they would like to embark on before long: with China attacking Formosa and the North Koreans and North Vietnamese liberating the southern half of their respective countries.

As the work progresses the frame and moving parts become a sort of Chinese puzzle where several pieces must be removed before the part you are working on is accessible.

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But the `` marvelous person '' that is supposed to result from Zen exhibits more Chinese practicality than Indian speculation -- he possesses magical powers, and can use them to order nature and to redeem souls.

The technique of reality confusion -- the use of paradox and riddles to shake the mind's grip on reality -- originated with fourth and third century B.C. Chinese Quietism: the koan is not basically a new device.

The largest amphibian is the Chinese Giant Salamander, Andrias davidianus.

The similarity of the Roman abacus to the Chinese one suggests that one could have inspired the other, as there is some evidence of a trade relationship between the Roman Empire and China.

Another possible source of the suanpan is Chinese counting rods, which operated with a decimal system but lacked the concept of zero as a place holder.

Zhuyin ( sometimes called Bopomofo ) is a semi-syllabary used to phonetically transcribe Mandarin Chinese in the Republic of China.

While Zhuyin is not used as a mainstream writing system, it is still often used in ways similar to a romanization system — that is, for aiding in pronunciation and as an input method for Chinese characters on computers and cellphones.

The first known references to mouth rinsing is in Ayurveda and Chinese medicine, about 2700 BC, for treatment of gingivitis.

As of early 2011, trade with China is dominated by imports of Chinese goods and accounts for about 10 percent of Armenia's foreign trade.

The Terracotta Army commissioned by the first Chinese Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi is a collection of about 8000 life-sized ceramic soldiers and horses buried with the emperor.

Chinese philosophy is the dominant philosophical thought in China and other countries within the sinosphere, including Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.

Even though this period-known in its earlier part as the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period-in its latter part was fraught with chaos and bloody battles, it is also known as the Golden Age of Chinese philosophy because a broad range of thoughts and ideas were developed and discussed freely.

Chinese měiguórén for example, is derived from a word for the United States, měiguó, where měi is an abbreviation for Yàměilìjiā " America " and guó is " country ".

Mervyn Peake never returned to China but it has been noted that Chinese influences can be detected in Peake's works, not least in the castle of Gormenghast itself, which in some respects echoes the ancient walled city of Peking ( Beijing ) as well as the enclosed compound where he grew up in Tientsin ( Tianjin ).

It typifies the most common Chinese character classification of " radical-phonetic " or " phono-semantic " graphs, which compound a " radical " or " signific " ( roughly providing semantic information ) with a " phonetic " ( suggesting ancient pronunciation ).

* August 7 – The Ming Dynasty Chinese military general Cao Qin stages a coup against the Tianshun Emperor ; after setting fire to the eastern and western gates of the Imperial City ( Beijing ) ( which are doused by pouring rains during the day-long uprising ), Cao Qin finds himself hemmed in on all sides by imperial forces, loses three of his own brothers in the fight, and instead of facing execution he flees to his home in the city and commits suicide by jumping down a well located within his walled compound.

In some cases the Chinese reading is the inferred Chinese reading, interpreting the character as a phono-semantic compound ( as in how on readings are sometimes assigned to these characters in Chinese ), while in other cases ( such as 働 ), the Japanese on reading is borrowed ( in general this differs from the modern Chinese pronunciation of this phonetic ).

The defenders suffered heavy casualties especially from lack of food and mines which the Chinese exploded in tunnels dug beneath the compound.

During Middle Chinese times, newly created characters tended to match pronunciation exactly, other than the tone – often by using as the phonetic component a character that itself is a radical-phonetic compound.

About one in seven people have a two-syllable name, and fewer than one-fifth of one percentmany of them ethnic minoritieshave a name of four or more syllables ; most Han Chinese that have names longer than four characters have compound surnames ( e. g. Ouyang Kunpeng or Da-Hong Seetoo ).

The latter also includes representative glyphs and definitions for compound words drawn from the free Japanese EDICT and Chinese CEDICT dictionary projects ( which are provided for convenience and are not a formal part of the Unicode standard ).

Jiu () is the Chinese as a single word ( or as part of a compound word ) refers to a drink or beverage containing ethanol.

Generally, beer in modern Chinese is referred to by the compound ( binomial character / syllable ) word (), and would be distinguished as a specific type from the main generic type of jiu.

He has a rare Chinese compound surname, Zhongli ( 鐘離 ).

Chinese morphology and word formation principles have been carried over into these languages, so that it is not uncommon for Chinese-style compound words to be coined in Japanese from originally Chinese morphemes, and then borrowed back into Chinese where they are used without Chinese speakers being aware of their Japanese origin.

Chinese taiji 太極 is a compound of tai 太 " great ; grand ; supreme ; extreme ; very ; too " ( a superlative variant of da 大 " big ; large ; great ; very ") and ji 極 " pole ; roof ridge ; highest / utmost point ; extreme ; earth's pole ; reach the end ; attain ; exhaust ".

According to the Confucian thought every culture should carry on its own primordial ethnic religion, which two main aspects are reverence for nature and for the ancient fathers ; in the case of the Chinese it is the Chinese folk religion and Taoism compound, which pivotal element is the worship of ancestor gods.

An archaic compound form of the Chinese character for " kushi " ( 串 ) is said to have meant " strange tree "; in combination with the second character " moto " ( 本 ), the name is supposed to represent " strange tree's origin.

The Chinese compound panlong combines pan 蟠 " coiling ; curling ; curving ; bending ; winding ; twisting " and long 龍 or 龙 " dragon ".

Shi () is the Chinese word for " poetry " ( and part of the modern Chinese compound word for a poem,.