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The Sinitic languages [a] ( simplified Chinese: 汉语族; traditional Chinese: 漢語族; pinyin: Hànyǔ zú ), often synonymous with the Chinese languages, are a group of East Asian analytic languages that constitute a major branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. It is frequently proposed that there is a primary split between the ...
In some cases a semantic shift has occurred in Min or the rest of Chinese: *tiaŋ B 鼎 "wok". The Min form preserves the original meaning "cooking pot", but in other Chinese varieties this word (MC tengX > dǐng) has become specialized to refer to ancient ceremonial tripods. [39] *dzhən A "rice field".
Sino-Tibetan, also cited as Trans-Himalayan in a few sources, [1] [2] is a family of more than 400 languages, second only to Indo-European in number of native speakers. [3] Around 1.4 billion people speak a Sino-Tibetan language. [4] The vast majority of these are the 1.3 billion native speakers of Sinitic languages.
In order to assist mutual intelligibility, the Chinese government, since its inception as the PRC, has been seeking to standardise and simplify the Chinese language. Until recently, even the government-promoted simplified Chinese had at least seven mutually unintelligible dialects. [clarification needed] Description
The earliest historical linguistic evidence of the spoken Chinese language dates back approximately 4500 years, [1] while examples of the writing system that would become written Chinese are attested in a body of inscriptions made on bronze vessels and oracle bones during the Late Shang period ( c. 1250 – 1050 BCE), [2] [3] with the very ...
Mirin ( 味醂 or みりん, Japanese: [miɾiɴ]) is a type of rice wine and a common ingredient in Japanese cooking. It is similar to sake but with a lower alcohol content and higher sugar content. [1] The sugar content is a complex carbohydrate that forms naturally during the fermentation process; no sugars are added.
MOQ. Look up MOQ, moq, or -moq in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. MOQ, Moq, Moq., moq, or MoQ may refer to: Pirsig's metaphysics of quality (MOQ) – a theory of reality. Alfred Moquin-Tandon – a botanist whose author abbreviation is Moq. Morondava Airport – a Madagascan airport with the IATA code MOQ. Mor language (Papuan) – a human ...
Explanation. This table ( 通用规范汉字笔顺表) stipulates the stroke orders for all the 8,105 commonly used standard Chinese characters. The stroke order of each character is represented in two modes of (a) the following mode: the character is written out stroke by stroke; (b) the numbering mode: the strokes are represented by 1, 2, 3 ...