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  2. Yi Jian Mei (song) - Wikipedia

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    Singer Fei Yu-ching in 2012 Plum trees in winter "Yi Jian Mei" (Chinese: 一剪梅; pinyin: Yī jiǎn méi; lit. 'One Trim of Plum Blossom'), [a] also commonly referred to by its popular lyrics "Xue hua piao piao bei feng xiao xiao" (Chinese: 雪花飄飄 北風蕭蕭; pinyin: Xuěhuā piāopiāo běi fēng xiāoxiāo; trans. "Snowflakes drifting, the north wind whistling"), is a 1983 Mandopop ...

  3. Help:IPA/Mandarin - Wikipedia

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    Help. : IPA/Mandarin. This is the for transcriptions of Mandarin on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Mandarin in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them. Integrity must be maintained between the key and the transcriptions that link here; do not change any ...

  4. Chinese character sounds - Wikipedia

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    Chinese character sounds (Pinyin: hànzì zìyīn; Traditional Chinese: 漢字字音; Simplified Chinese: 汉字字音 ) are the pronunciations of Chinese characters. The standard sounds of Chinese characters are based on the phonetic system of Beijing dialect. [1] Normally a Chinese character is read with one syllable. Some Chinese characters ...

  5. Transcription into Chinese characters - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. 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. Transcription is distinct from translation into Chinese whereby the meaning of a foreign word is communicated in Chinese.

  6. Proper Cantonese pronunciation - Wikipedia

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    e. Proper Cantonese pronunciation ( Chinese: 粵語正音運動; Jyutping: jyut6 jyu5 zing3 jam1 wan6 dung6) is a campaign in Hong Kong started from the 1980s and led by scholar Richard Ho ( 何文匯) to promote the "proper pronunciation" in the Cantonese language. The prescriptive nature of the campaign has led to controversies.

  7. Standard Chinese phonology - Wikipedia

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    The phonology of Standard Chinese has historically derived from the Beijing dialect of Mandarin. However, pronunciation varies widely among speakers, who may introduce elements of their local varieties. Television and radio announcers are chosen for their ability to affect a standard accent.

  8. Sino-Xenic vocabularies - Wikipedia

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    Sino-Xenic vocabularies are large-scale and systematic borrowings of the Chinese lexicon into the Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese languages, none of which are genetically related to Chinese. The resulting Sino-Japanese, Sino-Korean and Sino-Vietnamese vocabularies now make up a large part of the lexicons of these languages.

  9. Niconico - Wikipedia

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    Support for the English and Chinese-language versions of Niconico were discontinued on July 5, 2023, with the company citing the advancements in automated translation as a reason to deprecate the translations of the user interface, with comment fields, video titles and video descriptions the only natively supported translation on the site. [16]