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t. e. Hanyu Pinyin, or simply pinyin, is the most common romanization system for Standard Chinese. In official documents, it is referred to as the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet. Hanyu (汉语; 漢語) literally means ' Han language'—that is, the Chinese language—while pinyin literally means 'spelled sounds'. Pinyin is the official system used ...
This pinyin table is a complete listing of all Hanyu Pinyin syllables used in Standard Chinese. Each syllable in a cell is composed of an initial (columns) and a final (rows). An empty cell indicates that the corresponding syllable does not exist in Standard Chinese. The below table indicates possible combinations of initials and finals in ...
Wuxing (Chinese: 五行; pinyin: wǔxíng), [a] usually translated as Five Phases or Five Agents, [2] is a fivefold conceptual scheme used in many traditional Chinese fields of study to explain a wide array of phenomena, including cosmic cycles, the interactions between internal organs, the succession of political regimes, and the properties of ...
Ziwei doushu. Ziwei doushu, sometimes translated into English as purple star astrology, is a form of fortune-telling in Chinese culture. The study of destiny (Chinese: 命學; pinyin: mìngxué) is one of the five arts of Chinese metaphysics. Along with the Four Pillars of Destiny, ziwei doushu is one of the most renowned [1] fortune-telling ...
The Four Advisors ( Chinese: 四辅; pinyin: sì fǔ) is a traditional Chinese asterism found in the Purple Forbidden enclosure (Chinese: 紫微垣; pinyin: zǐ wēi yuán ). It consists of four stars found in the modern constellations of Ursa Minor and Camelopardalis and represents the four assistants of ancient emperors. During the Qing ...
Record of Handan (Chinese: 邯鄲記; pinyin: Hándān Jì) Record of Southern Bough (Chinese: 南柯記; pinyin: Nánkē Jì)" 'The Four Dreams of Linchuan' was a literary record of the ideological transition TANG went through concerning the meaning of life and one man's relationship to society. The Purple Hairpin was "one droplet of (his ...
Help. : IPA/Mandarin. This is the for transcriptions of Mandarin on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Mandarin in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them. Integrity must be maintained between the key and the transcriptions that link here; do not change any ...
Pu'er is the pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 普洱. Pu-erh is a variant of the Wade-Giles romanization (properly p‘u-êrh) of the same name.In Hong Kong, the same Chinese characters are read as Bo-lei, and this is therefore a common alternative English term for this tea.