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  2. Erhua - Wikipedia

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    Erhua ( simplified Chinese: 儿化; traditional Chinese: 兒化 [ɚ˧˥xwä˥˩] ); also called "erization" or "rhotacization of syllable finals" [ 1]) is a phonological process that adds r-coloring or the er ( 儿; 兒 [ɚ]) sound to syllables in spoken Mandarin Chinese. Erhuayin ( 儿化音; 兒化音) is the pronunciation of "er" after ...

  3. Written Chinese - Wikipedia

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    Written Chinese is a writing system that uses Chinese characters and other symbols to represent the Chinese languages. Chinese characters do not directly represent pronunciation, unlike letters in an alphabet or syllabograms in a syllabary. Rather, the writing system is morphosyllabic: characters are one spoken syllable in length, but generally ...

  4. Written vernacular Chinese - Wikipedia

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    Written vernacular Chinese. Written vernacular Chinese, also known as baihua, comprises forms of written Chinese based on the vernacular varieties of the language spoken throughout China. It is contrasted with Literary Chinese, which was the predominant written form of the language in imperial China until the early 20th century. [1]

  5. Chinese family of scripts - Wikipedia

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    The Chinese family of scripts includes writing systems used to write various East Asian languages, that ultimately descend from the oracle bone script invented in the Yellow River valley during the Shang dynasty. These include written Chinese itself, as well as adaptations of it for other languages, such as Japanese kanji, Korean hanja ...

  6. Chinese script styles - Wikipedia

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    The regular script ( 楷書 kǎishū) is the last major calligraphic style to develop, emerging during the Han and Three Kingdoms periods, gaining dominance during the Northern and Southern period (420–589), and ultimately maturing during the Tang dynasty (619–908). It emerged from a neatly written, semi-cursive form of clerical script.

  7. Bibliography of the Chinese language and writing system

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    Bibliography of the Chinese language and writing system. The Chinese language has an attested history spanning more than three millennia, and linguists have reconstructed forms spoken millennia prior to the earliest known examples of written Chinese c. 1200 BC. Chinese may be viewed either as a holistic unit with great internal topological ...

  8. Transliteration of Chinese - Wikipedia

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    官話字母; Guānhuà zìmǔ, developed by Wang Zhao (1859–1933), was the first alphabetic writing system for Chinese developed by a Chinese person. This system was modeled on Japanese katakana, which he learned during a two-year stay in Japan, and consisted of letters that were based on components of Chinese characters. After returning to ...

  9. Chinese language - Wikipedia

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    Chinese (simplified Chinese: 汉语; traditional Chinese: 漢語; pinyin: Hànyǔ; lit. 'Han language' or 中文; Zhōngwén; 'Chinese writing') is a group of languages [d] spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in China.

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