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| Â | Chinese written language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The complex interaction between the Chinese written and spoken languages can be illustrated with Cantonese. | | | As a result, several characters are combined into one, and some characters have their written form altered to ease the glyph generation process by computing technologies at that time. | | | Vernacular Chinese, the grammar and vocabulary of which are similar, but not identical, to the grammar and vocabulary of modern spoken Mandarin. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_written_language
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| Â | Chinese Cultural Studies: The Chinese Language and Alphabet |
| | The complexity of classical writing is well illustrated by this device - a Chinese typewriter. | | | With Pûtônghuà, new varieties of regional pronunciation are certain to develop (for instance, Mao Zedong spoke it with a marked Hunan accent), which may lead to problems of intelligibility. | | | But pin-yin has now become the dominant system. |
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http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/chinlng2.html
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| Â | The Mathematics of the Chinese Calendar |
| | Chinese New Year is the main holiday of the year for more than one quarter of the world's population; very few people, however, know how to compute its date. | | | Since the Chinese calendar is an astronomical calendar, predictions require delicate astronomical calculations, so my computations for 3358 should probably be taken with a grain of salt. | | | ChineseCalendar.m (version 1.06, Oct. 23 1999) that I use for Chinese calendrical computations. |
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http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/calendar/chinese.shtml
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| Â | Written Chinese Characters |
| | Approximately 5,000 characters are currently in use and only about 2,000 are very common and considered the minimum neccessary in order to read a newspaper. | | | Written Chinese characters are based on ideograms, or 'idea-pictures', which graphically represent ideas and objects using written characters derived directly from actual diagrams of the subject. |
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http://www.eslisland.com/life/WrittenChineseCharacters.htm
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| Â | Written Cantonese: The Growth of a Written Chinese Vernacular |
| | Written Cantonese examines this development in the broader context of the phenomenon of diglossia, and also of the patterns by which spoken vernaculars have developed written forms in other societies. | | | Cantonese is the only dialect of Chinese which has developed a widely known and used written form. | | | Written Cantonese is a history of how the written form of Cantonese has developed over the last several centuries, with particular focus on its development in |
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http://www.freewebs.com/keping/P_Abs-Model-DonSnow.htm
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| Â | Chinese words |
| | Chinese sentences and phrases are composed of Chinese words, in the same way as English sentences and phrases are composed of English words. | | | To read or write Chinese by computers, each word is coded by a number, just as English alphebets are coded in ASCII. | | | One such standard code, called the GB code, has about 2,000 words. |
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http://www.chinapage.com/word/chineseword.html
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| Â | Chinese Text Sampler: Readings in Chinese Literature, History, and Popular Culture |
| | An Annotated Collection of Digitized Chinese Texts for Students of Chinese Language and Culture | | | (1.0) - A simple list of the 300 most frequently used characters in modern Chinese, in order of increasing complexity. | | | Each text can be displayed in your browser window or downloaded for use with Chinese text reading and dictionary software such as Clavis Sinica or Wenlin. |
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http://www.umich.edu/~dporter/sampler/sampler.html
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| Â | The Chinese Outpost A Chinese Language Site lessons, shopping, products, e-cards, news, dictionary, pictures, ... |
| | For six years now, The Chinese Outpost has been reducing the dreaded Mandarin Learning Curve for countless students and other netizens eager to learn about the Chinese Language. | | | Listen to some relaxing traditional Chinese music with peaceful imagery while your computer takes a break with this Chinese Screensaver. | | | With a conversational approach that aims to educate and entertain, our popular tutorial explains the basic principles of Mandarin Chinese pronunciation, characters and grammar. |
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http://www.chinese-outpost.com/
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| Â | chn340-1 Advanced Written Chinese |
| | This unit is designed for non-background students who have taken the language sequence Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced Chinese, but who have had little exposure to Chinese literature. | | | Some of these texts will be in the current, simplified script; others will be in the traditional, unsimplified script. | | | Students will study the texts in detail and be able to translate texts from and into Chinese on the basis of these set texts |
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http://www.asianlang.mq.edu.au/chinese/chn340-1.htm
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| Â | Chinese Script |
| | Such a complex and sophisticated script certainly has a history but so far we found no traces of its predecessors. | | | As is well known, written Chinese is not an alphabetic language, but a script of ideograms. | | | The pictophonetic method was developed to create new characters by combining one element indicating meaning and the other sound. |
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http://www.crystalinks.com/chinascript.html
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| Â | Foreign Languages |
| | Designed to provide students with elementary knowledge of classical Latin, this course will focus on reading and understanding the written language through the study of grammar and texts. | | | Satisfies humanities distribution area E requirement or specified elective for the AA degree. | | | Satisfies humanities distribution area E requirement or specified elective requirement for the AA degree. |
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http://www.ghc.ctc.edu/catalog/courses/Foreign.htm
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| Â | Chinese braille |
| | [The braille in the alternative descriptions of the graphics is written in the European "Eurobraille" computer code.] | | | Chinese braille is based on a phonetic representation of the sounds of the language. | | | Here the braille code for Putonghua, the Chinese National Language (sometimes also called Mandarin), is described. |
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http://www.braille.ch/pschin-e.htm
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| Â | Chinese Characters |
| | Hence, to have a better understanding about Chinese people is to understand the written Chinese. | | | Words formed by taken from other word according to its sound and meanings that the original word is lacking. |
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http://logos.uoregon.edu/explore/orthography/chinese.html
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| | The Chinese written language consists of characters that represent complete words and concepts, rather than single letters that represent sounds the way the English language does. | | | Rarely, however, do the Chinese words actually mean anything when placed in sequence. | | | Seventh character: This is the Chinese word for "author." It indicates to readers that they have just finished reading the name of the book's author. |
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http://www.pitt.edu/~kloman/chinesename.html
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| Â | Chinese Cultural Studies: Chinese Literature: Brief Guide |
| | The main disadvantage of written Chinese is the great number of characters it contains: Even basic reading and writing require a knowledge of more than 1,000 characters. | | | This continuity results largely from the nature of the written language itself. | | | More than 1,700 musical plays were written, and more than 105 dramatists were recorded. |
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http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/chinlit.html
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| Â | Get a Chinese Name |
| | This program or the names generated may not be used in any commercial activity without permission of the website owner. | | | If you enjoyed this tool, you might also like some of my other Chinese tools. | | | Asian Brush Art : Carmelia will draw your Chinese name and mail it to you for $5. |
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http://www.mandarintools.com/chinesename.html
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| Â | Chinese (Cantonese) Help sheets |
| | Chinese Notepads you can print out and make. | | | Neots Cantonese Classes - Information about the class I go to. | | | This site contains over 200 pages of print friendly Chinese reference sheets, tests and revision aids. |
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http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/
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| Â | Taoist (Daoist) Chinese Characters |
| | This is because the characters developed from Pre-Qin dynasty to today, went though many stages of development. | | | In Chinese, there are different styles to write a character. | | | Li Shu also spawned the Kai Shu (Standard Style), which is the standard version you see in most Chinese newspapers today. |
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http://www.edepot.com/taocalig.html
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| Â | Art of Chinese Calligraphy |
| | Some of his best writings were preserved on carved stone tablets, Stone rubbings taken from them have been reproduced and reprinted widely; they have been studied by generations of students and used as examples to learn and practice the art of calligraphy. | | | More about the evolution of these styles (in Chinese [BIG5]) | | | Very Early Origin of the written Chinese (Chinese in gif) |
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http://www.chinapage.com/callig1.html
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| Â | China the Beautiful - Chinese Art and Literature |
| | You are welcome, however, to add a link to our website, or to place our URL in your bookmark. | | | Written permission is required for reproducing materials contained herein. | | | Classical Chinese Art, Calligraphy, Poetry, History, Literature, Painting and Philosophy |
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http://www.chinapage.com/china.html
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| Â | Minimum Vocabularies of Written Chinese George Kennedy |
| | Below you will see a list of US book stores, along with their stock and price details for Minimum Vocabularies of Written Chinese by George Kennedy. | | | To allow you to quickly compare prices, the stores are arranged in order of delivered price, cheapest first. | | | Please click on a store name to buy this book or to view further details. |
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http://www.bookkoob.com/book/0887100481.htm
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