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Chinese characters
logographic writing system with Han origin used in the Sinosphere for Chinese, Japanese, Korean and traditional Vietnamese languages
traditional Chinese characters
late imperial Chinese characters, namely used in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau
Chinese numerals
words and characters used to denote numbers in Chinese
biangbiang noodles
Shaanxi dish of thick, broad, hand-made noodles
Cangjie
Cangjie is a legendary figure in Chinese mythology, said to have been an official historian of the Yellow Emperor and the inventor of Chinese characters. Legend has it that he had four eyes, and that when he invented the characters, the deities and ghosts cried and the sky rained millet. He is considered a legendary rather than historical figure, or at least not considered to be the sole inventor of Chinese characters. Cangjie was the eponym for the Cangjiepian proto-dictionary, the Cangjie method of inputting characters into a computer, and a Martian rock visited by the Mars rover Spirit, and
Chinese character classification
the traditional etymological classification of hanzi into 6 categories: pictographs (象形), ideograms (指事), semantic–semantic compounds (會意), phono-semantic compounds (形聲), phonetic loans (假借), “derivative cognates” (轉注)
transcription into Chinese characters
use of traditional or simplified characters to transcribe phonetically the sound of terms and names foreign to the Chinese language
phono-semantic matching
linguistic borrowing in which the sound and meaning of a foreign word are adjusted to match existing phonetic and semantic elements in the target language
variant sinogram
different form of Han characters that is equivalent in pronunciation and meaning, usually as non-orthodox application such as non-standard abbreviated or simplified forms
literary and colloquial readings of Chinese characters
linguistic doublets typical of varieties of Chinese
character amnesia
loss of character memory in Chinese speakers
A Book from the Sky
Chinese artist Xu Bing's book consisting of meaningless glyphs designed to resemble traditional Chinese characters
Martian language
unconventional representation of Chinese characters online
Yǒu biān dú biān
rule of thumb for Chinese pronunciation
Chemical elements in East Asian languages
chemical element nomenclature in East Asia