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The toneless pinyin phrase Wu Li in the title is most accurately rendered 物理 in hanzi ( one Chinese translation of the word " physics ") in the light of the book's subject matter, but appears to be somewhat of a pun as there are many other Chinese characters that could be rendered as " wu li " in atonal pinyin.
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Tanacross and Upper Tanana share a high degree of mutual intelligibility, though the tonal patterns ( with the exception of the Tetlin dialect, which is apparently toneless ) are reversed.
In linguistics, a schwa is an unstressed and toneless neutral vowel sound in any language, often but not necessarily a mid-central vowel ( rounded or unrounded ).
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In relation to certain languages, the name " schwa " and the symbol may be used for some other unstressed and toneless neutral vowel, not necessarily mid-central.
Syllables closed with a glottal stop in Jin are still toneless, or alternatively, Jin can be said to still maintain the entering tone.
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South Philadelphia High's principal added that the current delay was caused by the `` pressure '' of a movie that the toneless lad was making.
It has a toneless neutral vowel sound.
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The region's name, Shōnan, derives from a scenic region in Hunan, China, encapsulated in the phrase 瀟湘湖南 ( Chinese pinyin: " xiāo xiāng hú nán "; Japanese: " shōshō konan ").
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* 廖 Cantonese pinyin: Liu 6, Mandarin: Liao, Wu
Li Houzhu () ( 937 – 978 ), also known as Houzhu of Southern Tang ( 南唐後主, literally " the latter lord of Southern Tang "), personal name Li Yu ( 李煜 ), né Li Congjia ( 李從嘉 ), courtesy name Chongguang ( 重光 ; pinyin: chòngguāng ), posthumously known as Prince of Wu ( 吳王 ), was the last ruler of the Southern Tang Kingdom from 961 to 975 during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period.
Wang Meng ( 王猛, pinyin Wáng Měng ) ( 325 – 375 ), courtesy name Jinglüe ( 景略 ), formally Marquess Wu of Qinghe ( 清河武侯 ), served as prime minister to the Former Qin emperor Fu Jiān in the fourth century.
It is said that Emperor Wu of the Liang Dynasty ( r. 502-549 ) commissioned 周興嗣 ( pinyin: Zhou Xingsi, jyutping: Zau1 Hing3 Zi6 ) to compose this poem for his prince to practice calligraphy.
The Wu or Wu ( Hao ) style ( simplified Chinese: 武氏 or 武 / 郝氏 ; pinyin: wǔshì or wǔ / hǎoshì ) of t ' ai chi ch ' uan of Wu Yu-hsiang ( 武禹襄, 1813-1880 ), is a separate family style from the more popular Wu-style ( 吳氏 ) of Wu Chien-ch ' üan.
Wu Mei is the pinyin romanization of:
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The Li ( 黎 ; pinyin: Lí ) or Hlai are a minority ethnic group, the vast majority of whom live off the southern coast of mainland China on Hainan Island, where they are the largest minority ethnic group.
He was briefly married to the ethnic-Japanese icon of Chinese song and cinema Yoshiko Ōtaka ( known by the stage-name Li Xianglan ( Chinese: 李香蘭 ; pinyin: Lǐ Xīanglán )) between 1951 and 1956.
Li Shuxian aka Li Shu-Hsien ( 李淑賢 ; pinyin: Lĭ Shúxían ) ( 1925 – 9 June 1997 ) was the fifth and last wife of Puyi, the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty in China.
* Doctrine of the Golden Mean ( Chinese: 中庸 ; pinyin: Zhōng Yóng ), a chapter in Li Ji, one of the Four Books of Confucianism
Lishui River ( also known as Li River, Chinese language: 澧水, pinyin: lǐshuǐ, Wade-Giles: li < sup > 3 </ sup >- shui < sup > 3 </ sup >) is a river in Hunan province of China, one of the Yangtze River's four largest tributaries in the province.
It represented two states, the Cheng state ( 成, pinyin Chéng ) proclaimed in 304 by Li Xiong and the Han state ( 汉, pinyin Hàn ) in 338 by Li Shou.
Freezing Point ( 冰点 pinyin: Bing diǎn ), a four-page weekly supplement of China Youth Daily was temporarily shut down by the Chinese government in early 2006, due to an anti-censorship letter posted by columnist Li Datong.
Li Qingzhao ( Traditional Chinese: 李清照 ; Simplified Chinese: 李清照, pinyin: Lǐ Qīngzhào ; Wade-Giles: Li Ch ' ing-chao, pseudonym Yi ' an Jushi ( 易安居士 “ Yi ' an Householder ”)) ( 1084 – c.
“ Ya Li ” ( 鸭梨, pinyin yā lí ), literally translated as " Duck Pear " due to its mallard-like shape, is one cultivar widely grown in China, and exported around the world.
After general population movement toward south, southwest, and southeast ( due in part to influx of northern and western groups such as Huaxia and Donghu ), the tribe of Chiyou split into two smaller splinter tribes, the Miao and the Li ( Chinese: 黎 ; pinyin: lí ).
Li is the pinyin romanization of several Chinese surnames, including 李 ( Lǐ ), the second-most-common Chinese surname.
Ceyuan haijing ( pinyin: Cèyuán Hǎijìng ) ( Chinese characters: 測圓海鏡 ), or Sea-Mirror of the Circle Measurements, is a collection of 692 formula and 170 problems related to inscribed circle in a triangle, written by Li Zhi ( or Li Ye ) ( 1192 – 1272 AD ).
Although recent immigration from central and northern China has caused the pinyin romanizations " Wang " and " Huang " to become more common, " Wong " is still by far the most common version in all three locations, just as " Lee " remains more common than " Li ".
Li Jing ( 李靖, pinyin: Lǐ Jìng ) ( 571 – July 2, 649 < ref >
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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.
Whatever its relation with the Chinese title, the Mongol title was rendered in Chinese as " jinong " ( Traditional Chinese: 濟農 ; pinyin: jǐ nóng ) or " jinang " ( Traditional Chinese: 吉囊 ; pinyin: jí náng ).
The title Grand Empress dowager ( also Grand Dowager Empress or Grand Empress mother ) ( simplified and traditional Chinese: 太皇太后, pinyin tài huáng tài hòu, Japanese: たいこうたいごう ) was given to the grandmother or a woman from the grandmother generation of the Chinese, Korean, or Japanese dynastic ruler.
* Emperor or Huangdi ( 皇帝, pinyin: huáng dì ) was the title of the Chinese head of state of China from the Qin Dynasty in 221 BC until the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1911.
Tolui was awarded the title of Khagan by his son Möngke and was given a temple name ( Chinese: 元睿宗 ; pinyin: Yuán Ruìzōng ; Wade – Giles: Jui-Tsung ) by his other son Kublai, when he established the Yuan Dynasty a few decades later.
The title is a playful pun on the Mandarin word for " ode " ( 頌, pinyin: sòng ), which also sounds like a Taiwanese word for " feeling good " ( 爽, POJ: sóng ), as well as the English word " song ".
The English title used for international audiences, originally Story of Ermei, was eventually abandoned in favor of the pinyin transcription of the original title, Jingzhe.
A wavy underline (; pinyin: shūmínghào ; literally “ book title mark ”) serves a similar function, but marks names of literary works instead of proper names.
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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.
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