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- Chinese language
- Chinese names
- East Asia
- Southeast Asia
A-Mei
Kulilay Amit, Han Chinese name Chang Hui-mei, better known by her stage name A-Mei (born 9 August 1972), is a Taiwanese singer and record producer of Puyuma descent.
Ancestor veneration in China
Chinese ancestor veneration, also called Chinese ancestor worship, is an aspect of the Chinese traditional religion which revolves around the ritual celebration of the deified ancestors and tutelary deities of people with the same surname organised into lineage societies in ancestral shrines.
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Art name
An art name (pseudonym or pen name), also known by its native names hào (in Mandarin Chinese), gō (in Japanese), (in Korean), and tên hiệu (in Vietnamese), is a professional name used by East Asian artists, poets and writers. Chinese name and art name are Chinese names.
Aw Boon Haw
Aw Boon-Haw (1882–1954), OBE, was a Chinese entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as founder of Tiger Balm.
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Bei Dao
Bei Dao (born August 2, 1949) is the pen name of the Chinese-American writer Zhao Zhenkai (S: 赵振开, T: 趙振開, P: Zhào Zhènkāi).
Beijing dialect
The Beijing dialect, also known as Pekingese and Beijingese, is the prestige dialect of Mandarin spoken in the urban area of Beijing, China.
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Binomial nomenclature
In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin grammatical forms, although they can be based on words from other languages.
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Book of Rites
The Book of Rites, also known as the Liji, is a collection of texts describing the social forms, administration, and ceremonial rites of the Zhou dynasty as they were understood in the Warring States and the early Han periods.
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British Empire
The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.
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Cai (state)
Cài (Old Chinese: *s.r̥ˤat-s) was an ancient Chinese state established at the beginning of the Zhou dynasty, rising to prominence during the Spring and Autumn period, and destroyed early in the Warring States period.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.
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Cantonese
Cantonese is the traditional prestige variety of Yue Chinese, a Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages originating from the city of Guangzhou (historically known as Canton) and its surrounding Pearl River Delta, with over 82.4 million native speakers.
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Chen (surname)
Chen is a common Chinese-language surname and one of the most common surnames in Asia.
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Chen Shui-bian
Chen Shui-bian (born 12 October 1950) is a Taiwanese former politician and lawyer who served as the 5th president of the Republic of China (Taiwan) from 2000 to 2008.
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China Youth University of Political Studies
China Youth University of Political Studies is a university in Beijing, established in 1985 by the Communist Youth League of China.
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Chinese character radicals
A radical, or indexing component, is a visually prominent component of a Chinese character under which the character is traditionally listed in a Chinese dictionary.
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Chinese Civil War
The Chinese Civil War was fought between the Kuomintang-led government of the Republic of China and the forces of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), with armed conflict continuing intermittently from 1 August 1927 until 7 December 1949, resulting in a communist victory and control of mainland China.
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Chinese Communist Party
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), officially the Communist Party of China (CPC), is the founding and sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
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Chinese compound surname
A Chinese compound surname is a Chinese surname using more than one character.
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Chinese era name
Chinese era names, also known as reign mottos, were titles used by various Chinese dynasties and regimes in Imperial China for the purpose of year identification and numbering. Chinese name and Chinese era name are Chinese names.
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Chinese given name
Chinese given names are the given names adopted by speakers of the Chinese language, both in majority-Sinophone countries and among the Chinese diaspora.
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Chinese Indonesian surname
Many ethnic Chinese people have lived in Indonesia for many centuries.
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Chinese Indonesians
Chinese Indonesians (Orang Tionghoa Indonesia), or simply Orang Tionghoa or Tionghoa, are Indonesians whose ancestors arrived from China at some stage in the last eight centuries.
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Chinese kin
A Chinese kin, lineage or sometimes rendered as clan, is a patrilineal and patrilocal group of related Chinese people with a common surname sharing a common ancestor and, in many cases, an ancestral home.
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Chinese opera
Traditional Chinese opera, or Xiqu, is a form of musical theatre in China with roots going back to the early periods in China.
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Chinese Singaporeans
Chinese Singaporeans are Singaporeans of Han Chinese ancestry.
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Chinese surname
Chinese surnames are used by Han Chinese and Sinicized ethnic groups in Greater China, Korea, Vietnam and among overseas Chinese communities around the world such as Singapore and Malaysia.
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CHINOPERL
CHINOPERL: Journal of Chinese Oral and Performing Literature, formerly CHINOPERL Papers and CHINOPERL News, is a peer-reviewed American academic journal dedicated to the study of Chinese performing arts like quyi and xiqu (Chinese opera).
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Chu (state)
Chu (Old Chinese: *s-r̥aʔ) was an ancient Chinese state during the Zhou dynasty.
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Comma
The comma is a punctuation mark that appears in several variants in different languages.
Courtesy name
A courtesy name, also known as a style name, is a name bestowed upon one at adulthood in addition to one's given name. Chinese name and courtesy name are Chinese language and Chinese names.
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Crown Prince Dan
Crown Prince Dan was a crown prince of the State of Yan during the Warring States period of ancient China.
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D. C. Lau
D.
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Daji
Daji was the favourite consort of King Zhou of Shang, the last king of the Shang dynasty in ancient China.
Deng Xiaoping
Deng Xiaoping (22 August 1904 – 19 February 1997) was a Chinese revolutionary and statesman who served as the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China (PRC) from December 1978 to November 1989.
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Digraph (orthography)
A digraph or digram is a pair of characters used in the orthography of a language to write either a single phoneme (distinct sound), or a sequence of phonemes that does not correspond to the normal values of the two characters combined.
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Diminutive
A diminutive is a word obtained by modifying a root word to convey a slighter degree of its root meaning, either to convey the smallness of the object or quality named, or to convey a sense of intimacy or endearment, and sometimes to derogatorily belittle something or someone.
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Dream of the Red Chamber
Dream of the Red Chamber or The Story of the Stone is an 18th-century Chinese novel authored by Cao Xueqin, considered to be one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature.
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Duke Cheng of Jin
Duke Cheng of Jin (died 600 BC) was from 606 to 600 BC the ruler of the State of Jin, a major power during the Spring and Autumn period of ancient China.
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Duke Huan of Lu
Duke Huan of Lu (died 14 April 694 BC), personal name Ji Yun or Ji Gui, was a ruler of the Lu state, reigning from 711 to 694 BC.
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Duke Huan of Qi
Duke Huan of Qi (died 643 BC), personal name Xiǎobái (小白), was the ruler of the State of Qi from 685 to 643 BC.
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Duke of Ye
Shen Zhuliang, Duke of Ye (叶公) or Gao, Duke of Ye (叶公高) (c. 529 BCE – after 478 BCE), was a general and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Chu during the Spring and Autumn period of ancient China.
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Duke Xi of Qi
Duke Xi of Qi (died 698 BC) was from 730 to 698 BC the thirteenth recorded ruler of the State of Qi during the Spring and Autumn period of ancient China.
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Fenmao
Fenmao (died 741 BC) was from 757 to 741 BC the monarch of the state of Chu during the early Spring and Autumn period of ancient China.
Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period
The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period was an era of political upheaval and division in Imperial China from 907 to 979.
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Five Hegemons
The Five Hegemons refers to several especially powerful rulers of Chinese states of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history (770 to 476 BCE), sometimes alternatively referred to as the "Age of Hegemons".
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Fujian
Fujian is a province on the southeastern coast of China.
Gaokao
The Nationwide Unified Examination for Admissions to General Universities and Colleges, commonly abbreviated as Gaokao, is the annual national undergraduate admission exam of China, held in early June.
Generation name
Generation name (variously zibei or banci in Chinese; tự bối, ban thứ or tên thế hệ in Vietnamese; hangnyeolja in Korea) is one of the characters in a traditional Chinese, Vietnamese and Korean given name, and is so called because each member of a generation (i.e. siblings and paternal cousins of the same generation) share that character.
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Given name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a family or clan) who have a common surname.
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Goh Chok Tong
Goh Chok Tong (born 20 May 1941) is a Singaporean former politician who served as the second Prime Minister of Singapore from 1990 to 2004 and Secretary-General of the People's Action Party (PAP) from 1992 to 2004.
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Greater China
"Greater China" is an ethno-linguistic term describing a geographical area sharing cultural and economic ties with the Chinese people.
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Greenwood Publishing Group
Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (GPG), also known as ABC-Clio/Greenwood (stylized ABC-CLIO/Greenwood), is an educational and academic publisher (middle school through university level) which is today part of ABC-Clio.
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Hacken Lee
Hacken Lee Hak Kan (is a Hong Kong singer, television host and actor, active since the 1980s. In 2013, Lee's song "House of Cards" swept multiple awards in many Hong Kong award ceremonies, including "World's Best Song" and "Broadcasting Index" in Metro's Awards.
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Hakka Chinese
Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ:,; Pha̍k-fa-sṳ) forms a language group of varieties of Chinese, spoken natively by the Hakka people in parts of Southern China, Taiwan, some diaspora areas of Southeast Asia and in overseas Chinese communities around the world.
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Han Chinese
The Han Chinese or the Han people, or colloquially known as the Chinese are an East Asian ethnic group native to Greater China.
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Han dynasty
The Han dynasty was an imperial dynasty of China (202 BC9 AD, 25–220 AD) established by Liu Bang and ruled by the House of Liu.
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Harvard University Asia Center
The Harvard University Asia Center is an interdisciplinary research and education unit of Harvard University, established on July 1, 1997, with the goal of "driving varied programs focusing on international relations in Asia and comparative studies of Asian countries and regions (...) and supplementing other Asia-related programs and institutes and the University and providing a focal point for interaction and exchange on topics of common interest for the Harvard community and Asian intellectual, political, and business circles," according to its charter.
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Harvard–Yenching Institute
The Harvard–Yenching Institute is an independent foundation dedicated to advancing higher education in Asia in the humanities and social sciences, with special attention to the study of Asian culture.
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History of China
The history of China spans several millennia across a wide geographical area.
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Hokkien
Hokkien is a variety of the Southern Min languages, native to and originating from the Minnan region, in the southeastern part of Fujian in southeastern mainland China.
Hong Kong identity card
The Hong Kong identity card (officially HKIC, commonly HKID) is an official identity document issued by the Immigration Department of Hong Kong.
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Hong Kong name
Personal names in Hong Kong reflect the co-official status of Cantonese and English in Hong Kong. Chinese name and Hong Kong name are Chinese names.
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Hong Kong University Press
Hong Kong University Press (abbreviated as HKU Press) is the university press of the University of Hong Kong.
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Hongkongers
Hongkongers, Hong Kongers, Hong Kongese, Hongkongese, Hong Kong citizens and Hong Kong people are demonyms that refer to a resident of Hong Kong, although they may also refer to others who were born and/or raised in the territory.
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Hu Shih
Hu Shih (17 December 189124 February 1962) was a Chinese diplomat, essayist and fiction writer, literary scholar, philosopher, and politician.
Hundred Family Surnames
The Hundred Family Surnames, commonly known as Bai Jia Xing, also translated as Hundreds of Chinese Surnames, is a classic Chinese text composed of common Chinese surnames.
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Hyphen
The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word.
Imperial Ancestral Temple
The Imperial Ancestral Temple, or Taimiao of Beijing, is a historic site in the Imperial City, just outside the Forbidden City, where during both the Ming and Qing dynasties, sacrificial ceremonies were held on the most important festival occasions in honor of the imperial family's ancestors.
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Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans.
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International Organization for Standardization
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is an independent, non-governmental, international standard development organization composed of representatives from the national standards organizations of member countries.
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Japanese name
in modern times consist of a family name (surname) followed by a given name.
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Jia of Zhao
Zhao Jia, also known as Jia, King of Dai (代王嘉) or Jia, King of Zhao (趙王嘉), reigned as the only king of the Dai state from 227 to 223 BC.
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Jiang (surname)
Jiang / Chiang can be a Mandarin transliteration of one of several Chinese surnames.
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Jyutping
The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong Cantonese Romanization Scheme, also known as Jyutping, is a romanisation system for Cantonese developed in 1993 by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK).
King Mu of Chu
King Mu of Chu (died 614 BC) was from 625 to 614 BC king of the state of Chu during the Spring and Autumn period of ancient China.
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King Zhou of Shang
King Zhou was the pejorative posthumous name given to Di Xin of Shang or King Shou of Shang, the last king of the Shang dynasty of ancient China.
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King Zhuang of Chu
King Zhuang of Chu (reigned 613-591 BC) was a monarch of the Zhou dynasty State of Chu during the Spring and Autumn period in ancient China.
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Korean name
A Korean name in the modern era typically consists of a surname followed by a given name, with no middle names.
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Legal name
A legal name is the name that identifies a person for legal, administrative and other official purposes.
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Li (surname 李)
Li or Lee is a common Chinese surname, it is the 4th name listed in the famous Hundred Family Surnames. Li is one of the most common surnames in Asia, shared by 92.76 million people in China, and more than 100 million in Asia.
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Li Yuru
Li Shuzhen (25 July 1923 – 11 July 2008), better known by her stage name and also known as was a Chinese opera singer and actress.
List of Chinese monarchs
The Chinese monarchs were the rulers of China during its Ancient and Imperial periods.
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List of common Chinese surnames
These are lists of the most common Chinese surnames in China (People's Republic of China), Taiwan (Republic of China), and the Chinese diaspora overseas as provided by authoritative government or academic sources.
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Liu Xiang (hurdler)
Liu Xiang (born July 13, 1983) is a Chinese former 110 meter hurdler.
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Ma (surname)
Ma is a Chinese family name.
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Mahan confederacy
Mahan was a loose confederacy of statelets that existed from around the 1st century BC to 6th century AD in the southern Korean peninsula in the Chungcheong and Jeolla provinces.
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Mainland China
Mainland China is the territory under direct administration of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in the aftermath of the Chinese Civil War.
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Malaysian Chinese
Malaysian Chinese, Chinese Malaysians, or Sino-Malaysians are Malaysian citizens of Han Chinese ethnicity.
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Malaysian names
Personal names in Malaysia vary greatly according to ethno-cultural group.
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Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese politician, Marxist theorist, military strategist, poet, and revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
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Marquess Wen of Wei
Marquess Wen of Wei (Wèi Wén Hóu; died 396 BCE) was the first Marquess to rule the State of Wei during the Warring States period of Chinese history (475 – 220 BCE).
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May Fourth Movement
The May Fourth Movement was a Chinese cultural and anti-imperialist political movement which grew out of student protests in Beijing on May 4, 1919.
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Ming dynasty
The Ming dynasty, officially the Great Ming, was an imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty.
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Ministry of Education (Taiwan)
The Ministry of Education (MOE) (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Kau-yuk Phu) is the ministry of Taiwan responsible for incorporating educational policies and managing public schools and it oversees the educational administrative agencies of local governments.
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Muhammad
Muhammad (570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam.
Names of Sun Yat-sen
Like many Chinese, Sun Yat-sen used different names at different points in his life and he is known in Chinese under several of them.
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Naming customs of Taiwanese aborigines
The naming customs of Indigenous Taiwanese are distinct from, though influenced by, the majority Han Chinese culture of Taiwan.
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Naming laws in China
Naming laws in China (excluding Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan) are based mainly on technical capability rather than the appropriateness of words (as opposed to naming laws in Japan, which restrict the kanji which can be used based on appropriate taste, as well as readability by all people).
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Naming taboo
A naming taboo is a cultural taboo against speaking or writing the given names of exalted persons, notably in China and within the Chinese cultural sphere.
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National Registration Identity Card
The National Registration Identity Card (NRIC), colloquially known as "IC" (Kad Pengenalan Pendaftaran Negara;; translit), is a compulsory identity document issued to citizens and permanent residents of Singapore.
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Northern and southern China
Northern China and Southern China are two approximate regions within China.
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Onomastics
Onomastics (or, in older texts, onomatology) is the study of the etymology, history, and use of proper names.
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Organisation of the Government of Singapore
The Government of Singapore consists of several departments, known as ministries and statutory boards in Singapore.
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Overseas Chinese
Overseas Chinese people are those of Chinese birth or ethnicity who reside outside mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau.
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Personal name
A personal name, full name or prosoponym (from Ancient Greek prósōpon – person, and onoma –name) is the set of names by which an individual person or animal is known, and that can be recited as a word-group, with the understanding that, taken together, they all relate to that one individual.
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Pinyin
Hanyu Pinyin, or simply pinyin, is the most common romanization system for Standard Chinese.
Plum
A plum is a fruit of some species in ''Prunus'' subg. ''Prunus''. Dried plums are often called prunes, though in the United States they may be labeled as 'dried plums', especially during the 21st century.
Portuguese orthography
Portuguese orthography is based on the Latin alphabet and makes use of the acute accent, the circumflex accent, the grave accent, the tilde, and the cedilla to denote stress, vowel height, nasalization, and other sound changes.
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Posthumous name
A posthumous name is an honorary name given mainly to revered dead people in East Asian culture. Chinese name and posthumous name are Chinese names.
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Prehistory of China
The earliest human occupation of what is now China dates to the Lower Paleolithic —attested by archaeological finds such as the Yuanmou Man.
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Public security bureau (China)
A public security bureau (PSB) of a city or county, or public security department (PSD) of a province or autonomous region, in the People's Republic of China refers to a government office essentially acting as a police station or a local or provincial police; the smallest police stations are called police posts.
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Qi (state)
Qi, or Ch'i in Wade–Giles romanization, was a regional state of the Zhou dynasty in ancient China, whose rulers held titles of Hou (侯), then Gong, before declaring themselves independent Kings.
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Qin Shi Huang
Qin Shi Huang (February 25912 July 210 BC) was the founder of the Qin dynasty and the first emperor of China.
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Qing dynasty
The Qing dynasty, officially the Great Qing, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last imperial dynasty in Chinese history.
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Regnal name
A regnal name, regnant name, or reign name is the name used by monarchs and popes during their reigns and subsequently, historically.
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Romanization of Chinese
Romanization of Chinese is the use of the Latin alphabet to transliterate Chinese.
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Runme Shaw
Runme Shaw, K.St.J (1 January 1901 – 2 March 1985) was the chairman and founder of the Shaw Organisation of Singapore.
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Shang dynasty
The Shang dynasty, also known as the Yin dynasty, was a Chinese royal dynasty that ruled in the Yellow River valley during the second millennium BC, traditionally succeeding the Xia dynasty and followed by the Western Zhou dynasty.
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Sima Qian
Sima Qian (司馬遷; was a Chinese historian during the early Han dynasty. He is considered the father of Chinese historiography for his Records of the Grand Historian, a general history of China covering more than two thousand years beginning from the rise of the legendary Yellow Emperor and the formation of the first Chinese polity to the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, during which Sima wrote.
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Sinicization
Sinicization, sinofication, sinification, or sinonization (from the prefix, 'Chinese, relating to China') is the process by which non-Chinese societies or groups are acculturated or assimilated into Chinese culture or society, particularly the language, societal norms, culture, and ethnic identity of the Han Chinese—the largest ethnic group of China.
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Sinophone
Sinophone, which means "Chinese-speaking", typically refers to an individual who speaks at least one variety of Chinese (that is, one of the Sinitic languages). Chinese name and Sinophone are Chinese language.
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Song dynasty
The Song dynasty was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 960 to 1279.
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Southeast University
Southeast University (SEU) is a public university in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.
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Spirit tablet
A spirit tablet, memorial tablet, or ancestral tablet is a placard that people used to designate the seat of a deity or past ancestor as well as to enclose it.
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Spring and Autumn period
The Spring and Autumn period in Chinese history lasted approximately from 770 to 481 BCE which corresponds roughly to the first half of the Eastern Zhou period.
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Standard Chinese
Standard Chinese is a modern standard form of Mandarin Chinese that was first codified during the republican era (1912‒1949).
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Standard Chinese phonology
The phonology of Standard Chinese has historically derived from the Beijing dialect of Mandarin.
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Subject indexing
Subject indexing is the act of describing or classifying a document by index terms, keywords, or other symbols in order to indicate what different documents are about, to summarize their contents or to increase findability.
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Sun Tzu
Sun Tzu (p) was a Chinese military general, strategist, philosopher, and writer who lived during the Eastern Zhou period (771–256 BC).
Sun Yat-sen
Sun Yat-sen (12 November 1866 – 12 March 1925),Singtao daily.
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Sunshu Ao
Sunshu Ao (孫叔敖, c. 630 – c. 593 BCE) was a Chinese hydraulic engineer and politician.
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T. V. Soong
Soong Tse-vung, more commonly romanized as Soong Tse-ven or Soong Tzu-wen (4 December 1894 – 25 April 1971), was a Chinese businessman, banker, and politician who served as Premier of the Republic of China in 1930 and between 1945 and 1947.
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Taboo on rulers
Taboos regarding rulers includes both taboos on people coming into contact with a ruler and the taboos regarding the ruler themselves.
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Taboo on the dead
The taboo on the dead includes the taboo against touching of the dead, those surrounding them and anything associated with the dead.
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Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia.
Taiwanese indigenous peoples
Taiwanese indigenous peoples, also known as Formosans, Native Taiwanese or Austronesian Taiwanese, and formerly as Taiwanese aborigines, Takasago people or Gaoshan people, are the indigenous peoples of Taiwan, with the nationally recognized subgroups numbering about 600,303 or 3% of the island's population.
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Tang dynasty
The Tang dynasty (唐朝), or the Tang Empire, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907, with an interregnum between 690 and 705.
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Temple name
Temple names are posthumous titles accorded to monarchs of the Sinosphere for the purpose of ancestor worship. Chinese name and Temple name are Chinese names.
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The Chicago Manual of Style
The Chicago Manual of Style (abbreviated as CMOS, TCM, or CMS, or sometimes as Chicago) is a style guide for American English published since 1906 by the University of Chicago Press.
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The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy
The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy is a book written by John DeFrancis, published in 1984 by University of Hawaiʻi Press.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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Tony Tan
Tony Tan Keng Yam (born 7 February 1940) is a Singaporean banker and politician who served as the seventh president of Singapore from 2011 to 2017.
Transcription into Chinese characters
Transcription into Chinese characters is the use of traditional or simplified Chinese characters to phonetically transcribe the sound of terms and names of foreign words to the Chinese language.
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Variant Chinese characters
Chinese characters may have several variant forms—visually distinct glyphs that represent the same underlying meaning and pronunciation.
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Vietnamese name
Traditional Vietnamese personal names generally consist of three parts, used in Eastern name order.
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Wade–Giles
Wade–Giles is a romanization system for Mandarin Chinese.
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Wang (surname)
Wang is the pinyin romanization of the common Chinese surnames 王 (Wáng) and 汪 (Wāng).
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Wang Jingwei
Wang Zhaoming, widely known by his pen name Wang Jingwei (4 May 1883 – 10 November 1944), was a Chinese politician who was president of the Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China, a puppet state of Japan.
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Wang Mang
Wang Mang (45 BCE6 October 23 CE), courtesy name Jujun, officially known as the Shijianguo Emperor, was the founder and the only emperor of the short-lived Chinese Xin dynasty.
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Warring States period
The Warring States period was an era in ancient Chinese history characterized by warfare, bureaucratic and military reform, and political consolidation.
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Wellington Koo
Koo Vi Kyuin (January 29, 1888 – November 14, 1985), better known as V. K. Wellington Koo, was a Chinese diplomat and statesman.
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Wen Jiang
Wen Jiang (died 673 BC) was a princess of the State of Qi and duchess of the State of Lu during the Spring and Autumn period of ancient China.
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Wuxing (Chinese philosophy)
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Xi of Yan
Xi, King of Yan (燕王喜) (fl. 255–222 BCE) (ruled 255–222 BC) was the last sovereign of the state of Yan in the last days Warring States period of Chinese history.
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Xin dynasty
The Xin dynasty, also known as Xin Mang in Chinese historiography, was a short-lived Chinese imperial dynasty which lasted from 9 to 23 AD, established by the Han dynasty consort kin Wang Mang, who usurped the throne of the Emperor Ping of Han and the infant "crown prince" Liu Ying.
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Yao (surname)
Yao, also romanized as Yiu in Cantonese, is one of the most ancient Chinese surnames, the "Eight Great Xings of High Antiquity".
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Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma (born October 7, 1955) is an American cellist.
Yuan dynasty
The Yuan dynasty, officially the Great Yuan (Mongolian:, Yeke Yuwan Ulus, literally "Great Yuan State"), was a Mongol-led imperial dynasty of China and a successor state to the Mongol Empire after its ''de facto'' division.
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Yuen Ren Chao
Yuen Ren Chao (3 November 189225 February 1982), also known as Zhao Yuanren, was a Chinese-American linguist, educator, scholar, poet, and composer, who contributed to the modern study of Chinese phonology and grammar.
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Zhang (surname)
Zhang is the third most common surname in China and Taiwan (commonly spelled as Chang in Taiwan), and it is one of the most common surnames in the world.
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Zhao (state)
Zhao was one of the seven major states during the Warring States period of ancient China.
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Zhao She
Zhao She (趙奢) was a Chinese bureaucrat and general for the State of Zhao during the Warring States Period during the 3rd century BC.
Zhao Shuo
Zhao Shuo (died 597 BCE), posthumously known as Zhao Zhuangzi(Zhuangzi of Zhao), was a vassal lord of the state of Jin.
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Zhonghua Zihai
Zhonghua Zihai is the largest Chinese character dictionary available for print, compiled in 1994 and consisting of 85,568 different characters.
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Zhou dynasty
The Zhou dynasty was a royal dynasty of China that existed for 789 years from until 256 BC, the longest of such reign in Chinese history.
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See also
Chinese language
- Bibliography of the Chinese language and writing system
- Chinese Information Processing Society of China
- Chinese computational linguistics
- Chinese dictionaries
- Chinese exonyms
- Chinese grammar
- Chinese honorifics
- Chinese language
- Chinese language law
- Chinese name
- Chinese number gestures
- Chinese orthography
- Ching chong
- Classical Chinese
- Courtesy name
- History of the Chinese language
- Horizontal and vertical writing in East Asian scripts
- Journal of Chinese Information Processing
- List of English words of Chinese origin
- List of generic Chinese toponyms
- List of loanwords in Chinese
- One-syllable article
- Place names in China
- Sino-Japanese vocabulary
- Sino-Korean vocabulary
- Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary
- Sinophone
- Tetraphobia
- Tone name
- Tone pattern
- Transcription of Chinese
- United Nations Security Council Resolution 345
- Varieties of Chinese
- Yuantang (language game)
Chinese names
- Art name
- Chinese era name
- Chinese given names
- Chinese name
- Courtesy name
- Hong Kong name
- Internet real-name system in China
- Official Cantonese translations of English names for British officials
- Posthumous name
- Salmon chaos
- Temple name
- Tikki Tikki Tembo
East Asia
- Chinese New Year
- Chinese characters
- Chinese name
- Chữ Hán
- CrossAsia
- Culture of East Asia
- East Asia
- East Asia Economic Caucus
- East Asian people
- Eastern Himalayas
- Economy of East Asia
- Ethnic groups in East Asia
- Eurasian Steppe
- Far East
- Hanja
- Himalayas
- History of East Asia
- Inner Asia
- Kanji
- Mugulü
- Northeast Asia
- Outer Manchuria
- Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership
- Sinosphere
- Tartary
- Tibet
- Tropical Asia
Southeast Asia
- ASEAN
- Bangle
- Blue-throated bee-eater
- Blyxa octandra
- CLMV
- Chinese New Year
- Chinese characters
- Chinese name
- Chữ Hán
- Culture of Southeast Asia
- Dvaravati
- East Asia Economic Caucus
- Economy of Southeast Asia
- Ethnic groups in Southeast Asia
- Far East
- Farther India
- Geography of Southeast Asia
- Hanja
- History of Southeast Asia
- Human trafficking in Southeast Asia
- Kanji
- Languages of Southeast Asia
- Oil reserves in Southeast Asia
- Patani
- Piracy and armed robbery in the Singapore Strait
- Piracy in the Strait of Malacca
- Post - 1500 Southeast Asia Archaeology
- Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership
- Sinosphere
- South East Asia Cultural Organisation
- South Seas Society (Singapore)
- Southeast Asia
- Southeast Asian Press Alliance
- Southeast Asian countries
- Southeast Asian people
- Southeast Asian studies
- The Art of Not Being Governed
- Tropical Asia
- West Tegal, Tegal
References
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