However, the phrase 功夫武術 ( kung fu wu shu ) does exist in Chinese and could be ( loosely ) translated as ' the skills of the martial arts '.

For instance, in Chinese, the subtitle is not a translation of an Eternal Golden Braid, but a seemingly unrelated phrase Jí Yì Bì ( 集异璧, literally " collection of exotic jades "), which is homophonic to GEB in Chinese.

The message inside may also include a Chinese phrase with translation or a list of lucky numbers used by some as lottery numbers, some of which have become actual winner numbers.

In the standard Pinyin system of romanization for Mandarin Chinese, capitalization is used to mark proper names, with some complexities because of different Chinese classifications of nominal types, and even different notions of such broad categories as word and phrase.

The Chinese box structure of the noun phrase can be illustrated with the phrase sipad udu siki-k-ak-ene (" the shepherds of wool sheep "), where the first genitive morpheme subordinates siki " wool " to udu " sheep ", and the second – udu siki " wool sheep " to sipad " shepherd ".

In Chinese and Vietnamese, the phrase " half a catty, eight taels " ( 半斤八兩 and kẻ tám lạng người nửa cân, respectively ), meaning two different presentations of the same thing ( similar to the English phrase " Six of one and half-a-dozen of the other "), is still often used today.

The term goes back to the early 1900s, and is known to have been used in the U. S. Marine Corps in the 1940s, where it was often expressed in the phrase " as fucked up as a Chinese fire drill.

" At a meeting of the PLP I accused Ian Mikardo of being ' out of his tiny Chinese mind '— a phrase of the comedienne Hermione Gingold, with which I thought everyone was familiar.

The Jie are known for one phrase that reached us in their native language, uttered by a Buddhist monk Fotucheng and recorded in the Chinese annals Book of Jin as 秀支 替戾剛

The phrase was glossed with Chinese translation ( Middle Chinese pronunciation provided below follows Pulleyblank ):

In addition, the phrase " kitaiskaya gramota " ( Китайская грамота, " Chinese writing ") is used.

The worm was named the. ida " Code Red " worm because Code Red Mountain Dew was what they were drinking at the time, and because of the phrase " Hacked by Chinese!

In Vietnamese, " vạn tuế " is the phrase cognate to the Chinese wàn suì and is the proper Vietnamese reading of the hán tự " 萬歲 ".

This unusual English phrase literally translates the original Chinese tichu yanzheng jiaoshe ( 提出嚴正交涉 " lodge solemn representation "), combining tichu " put forward ; raise ; pose bring up ", yanzheng " serious ; stern ; unyielding ; solemn ", and jiaoshe " mutual relations ; negotiation ; representation ".

* Calvin Jung ( 1969 ), actor, most famous for his role as " Mr. Lee " in the 1970s Calgon Water Softener commercial that coined the phrase, " Ancient Chinese Secret, huh?

Neville coined the phrase to refer to those who hold that Confucianism could be successfully adapted to a western perspective, and does not have to be confined to Chinese culture and tradition.

Moreover, besides “ Hablar en gringo ”, Spanish also contains the analogous phrase “ hablar en chino ( To speak in Chinese )”, when referring to someone whose language is difficult to understand, thereby re-enforcing the notion that alluding to the languages of other nations is a cliché.

This phrase was most notably used beginning as early as a decade ago in Asian democratic elections, specifically Tiawan: Taiwanese () These usually include strong supporters of Taiwan independence or Chinese reunification.

The traditional Chinese political phrase " attending audiences behind a curtain " () was coined to describe Cixi's rule through her son.

In classical Chinese astronomy, the northern sky is divided geometrically, into five " enclosures " and twenty-eight mansions along the ecliptic, grouped into Four Symbols of seven asterisms each.

Chinese classic texts, or Chinese canonical texts, () today often refer to the pre-Qin Chinese texts, especially the Neo-Confucian titles of Four Books and Five Classics ( 四書五經 ), a selection of short books and chapters from the voluminous collection called the Thirteen Classics.

* Four Pillars of Destiny, a Chinese component used in fortune telling

Among the most important are a controversial treatise on the Catholic Faith, in which are refuted what he saw as the principal errors of the Chinese ; The True Origin of All Things ; and The Life of God, the Saviour, from the Four Gospels.

* Vitalii Aronovich Rubin: Individual and State in Ancient China: Essays on Four Chinese Philosophers.

; Red Robe Dà Hóng Páo ( 大红袍 ): in Chinese, a highly prized tea and a Sì Dà Míng Cōng ( 四大名樅, literally: The Four Great Bushes ).

* Four Arts of the Chinese Scholar

The most well-known foods for breakfast are the " Four Heavenly Kings " (), which include dabing (; Chinese pancake ), youtiao, ci fan tuan (; steamed sticky rice ball ) and soy milk.

The name pays homage to the Four Heavenly Kings in Chinese Buddhism.

The White Tiger () is one of the Four Symbols of the Chinese constellations.

In the Ming Dynasty, Luo Guanzhong and Shi Nai ' an wrote Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Water Margin respectively, which became two of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature.

), Guo Jinhai ( annotation ), Zhu Shijie: Jade mirror of the Four Unknowns, Chinese and English bilingual, vol I & 2, Liaoning education Press, China, 2006.

* July 22 – The purged Chinese Communist leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power 9 months after the " Gang of Four " was expelled from power in a coup d ' état.

* 1013 – One of the Four Great Books of Song, the Prime Tortoise of the Record Bureau compiled by 1013 was the largest of the Song Chinese encyclopedias.

* Three of the Four Great Books of Song are published ( the last one in 1013 ), which were enormous Chinese encyclopedias having millions of written Chinese characters each.

* The largest of the Four Great Books of Song, the Song Dynasty Chinese encyclopedia Prime Tortoise of the Record Bureau ( which had been compiled since 1005 ), is completed in 1, 000 volumes of 9. 4 million written Chinese characters.

* One of the Four Great Books of Song, the Chinese encyclopedia Finest Blossoms in the Garden of Literature is finished in this year, with a total of 1, 000 volumes representing the work of some 2, 200 authors.

* One of the Four Great Books of Song, the encyclopedia Imperial Readings of the Taiping Era is completed in 1, 000 volumes of 4. 7 million written Chinese characters.

On the contrary, the Silk Road passed Chinese products and inventions to the Western regions, including paper: papermaking originated in China and is considered one of Four Great Inventions.

In the trial of the so-called Gang of Four, a Chinese court stated that 729, 511 people had been persecuted, of which 34, 800 were said to have died.

The Four Cardinal Principles ( Chinese: 四项基本原则, pinyin: sì xiàng jīběn yuánzé ) were stated by Deng Xiaoping in 1979 and are the four issues for which debate was not allowed within the People's Republic of China.

The Ming Chinese also mounted over 3, 000 cast bronze and iron cannon on the Great Wall of China, to defend against the Mongols.

* Chinese Classics ( James Legge's translations of the Analects of Confucius, the Great Learning, the Doctrine of the Mean, the Works of Mencius and the Tao Te Ching )

It is one of the Eight Great Traditions of Chinese cuisine and is well known for its hot spicy flavour, fresh aroma and deep colour.

In the late 19th-and early 20th centuries, although some boundary agreements were signed between Great Britain, Afghanistan and Russia over the northern borders of Kashmir, China never accepted these agreements, and the official Chinese position did not change with the communist revolution in 1949.

He was impressed by the Great Wall of China near Beijing, but concluded of the Chinese: " They smell of all the baths they didn't take.

Severe starvation during the Great Chinese Famine, mass suicide as a result of the Three-anti / five-anti campaigns, and political persecution during both the Anti-Rightist Movement and struggle sessions all resulted from these programs.

In the South East corner of Kew Gardens stands the Great Pagoda ( by Sir William Chambers ), erected in 1762, from a design in imitation of the Chinese Ta.

Many visual effects are possible, and the SVG specification automatically handles bidirectional text ( for composing a combination of English and Arabic text, for example ), vertical text ( as Chinese was historically written ) and characters along a curved path ( such as the text around the edge of the Great Seal of the United States ).

Stalin opposed the Chinese Communist Party, and Sheng conducted a purge similar to Stalin's Great Purge in 1937.

In Chinese astronomy, the stars of Triangulum along with several in Andromeda were incorporated into T ' ien-ta-tsiang-kiun ( the " Great Celestial General "), the fifth paranatellon of the second house of the White Tiger of the West.

William Jardine was now being referred to by the other traders as " Tai-pan " ( 大班 ), a Chinese colloquial title meaning ' Great Manager '.

* The Great Chinese Famine was a direct cause of the death of tens of millions of Chinese peasants between 1959 and 1962.

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* 214 BC: Qin Shi Huang of the Chinese Qin Dynasty ordered construction of the Great Wall of China.