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5726bb7e5951b619008f7c50 | What may have a wide range of meanings? | single character | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nModern Chinese has many homophones; thus the same spoken syllable may be represented by many characters, depending on meaning. A single character may also have a range of meanings, or sometimes quite distinct meanings; occasionally these correspond to different pronunciations. Cognates in the... |
5726bb7e5951b619008f7c51 | What have been beneficial in the reconstruction of Middle Chinese? | Sino-Xenic pronunciations | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nModern Chinese has many homophones; thus the same spoken syllable may be represented by many characters, depending on meaning. A single character may also have a range of meanings, or sometimes quite distinct meanings; occasionally these correspond to different pronunciations. Cognates in the... |
5726bd02dd62a815002e8ed4 | What represent words of the language using several strategies? | Chinese characters | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nChinese characters represent words of the language using several strategies. A few characters, including some of the most commonly used, were originally pictograms, which depicted the objects denoted, or simple ideograms, in which meaning was expressed iconically. Some other words were expres... |
5726bd02dd62a815002e8ed5 | What are some words expressed in? | compound ideograms | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nChinese characters represent words of the language using several strategies. A few characters, including some of the most commonly used, were originally pictograms, which depicted the objects denoted, or simple ideograms, in which meaning was expressed iconically. Some other words were expres... |
5726bd02dd62a815002e8ed6 | What were most words written in? | rebus principle | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nChinese characters represent words of the language using several strategies. A few characters, including some of the most commonly used, were originally pictograms, which depicted the objects denoted, or simple ideograms, in which meaning was expressed iconically. Some other words were expres... |
5726bd86f1498d1400e8e9b0 | What are the most numerous characters? | Semantic-phonetic compounds | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nSemantic-phonetic compounds or pictophonetic compounds are by far the most numerous characters. These characters are composed of two parts: one of a limited set of characters (the semantic indicator, often graphically simplified) which suggests the general meaning of the compound character, a... |
5726bd86f1498d1400e8e9b1 | What is the radical under which the character is listed in dictionaries? | semantic indicator | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nSemantic-phonetic compounds or pictophonetic compounds are by far the most numerous characters. These characters are composed of two parts: one of a limited set of characters (the semantic indicator, often graphically simplified) which suggests the general meaning of the compound character, a... |
5726bd86f1498d1400e8e9b2 | What suggests the general meaning of a compound character? | semantic indicator | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nSemantic-phonetic compounds or pictophonetic compounds are by far the most numerous characters. These characters are composed of two parts: one of a limited set of characters (the semantic indicator, often graphically simplified) which suggests the general meaning of the compound character, a... |
5726be17708984140094d001 | What side is a phonetic indicator located on? | right-hand side | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nExamples are 河 hé \"river\", 湖 hú \"lake\", 流 liú \"stream\", 沖 chōng \"riptide\" (or \"flush\"), 滑 huá \"slippery\". All these characters have on the left a radical of three short strokes (氵), which is a reduced form of the character 水 shuǐ meaning \"water\", indicating that the character ha... |
5726be17708984140094d002 | What is the process of historical phonetic change? | phonetic indicator | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nExamples are 河 hé \"river\", 湖 hú \"lake\", 流 liú \"stream\", 沖 chōng \"riptide\" (or \"flush\"), 滑 huá \"slippery\". All these characters have on the left a radical of three short strokes (氵), which is a reduced form of the character 水 shuǐ meaning \"water\", indicating that the character ha... |
5726be17708984140094d003 | What process can sometimes seem arbitrary today? | phonetic change | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nExamples are 河 hé \"river\", 湖 hú \"lake\", 流 liú \"stream\", 沖 chōng \"riptide\" (or \"flush\"), 滑 huá \"slippery\". All these characters have on the left a radical of three short strokes (氵), which is a reduced form of the character 水 shuǐ meaning \"water\", indicating that the character ha... |
5726cac25951b619008f7e45 | What is occasionally written with two characters that contain the same radical? | bisyllabic word | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nOccasionally a bisyllabic word is written with two characters that contain the same radical, as in 蝴蝶 húdié \"butterfly\", where both characters have the insect radical 虫. A notable example is pipa (a Chinese lute, also a fruit, the loquat, of similar shape) – originally written as 批把 with th... |
5726cac25951b619008f7e46 | What is also a fruit? | pipa | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nOccasionally a bisyllabic word is written with two characters that contain the same radical, as in 蝴蝶 húdié \"butterfly\", where both characters have the insect radical 虫. A notable example is pipa (a Chinese lute, also a fruit, the loquat, of similar shape) – originally written as 批把 with th... |
5726cac25951b619008f7e47 | What may share a radical without being meaningful? | compound word | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nOccasionally a bisyllabic word is written with two characters that contain the same radical, as in 蝴蝶 húdié \"butterfly\", where both characters have the insect radical 虫. A notable example is pipa (a Chinese lute, also a fruit, the loquat, of similar shape) – originally written as 批把 with th... |
5726cb77708984140094d18b | What may have been found at Neolithic sites in China in recent decades? | series of inscribed graphs and pictures | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nIn recent decades, a series of inscribed graphs and pictures have been found at Neolithic sites in China, including Jiahu (c. 6500 BC), Dadiwan and Damaidi from the 6th millennium BC, and Banpo (5th millennium BC). Often these finds are accompanied by media reports that push back the purporte... |
5726cb77708984140094d18c | What has demonstrated a history of sign use in the Yellow River valley? | Chinese characters | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nIn recent decades, a series of inscribed graphs and pictures have been found at Neolithic sites in China, including Jiahu (c. 6500 BC), Dadiwan and Damaidi from the 6th millennium BC, and Banpo (5th millennium BC). Often these finds are accompanied by media reports that push back the purporte... |
5726cb77708984140094d18d | What color was the famous valley during the Neolithic through to the Shang period? | Yellow | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nIn recent decades, a series of inscribed graphs and pictures have been found at Neolithic sites in China, including Jiahu (c. 6500 BC), Dadiwan and Damaidi from the 6th millennium BC, and Banpo (5th millennium BC). Often these finds are accompanied by media reports that push back the purporte... |
5726d6265951b619008f7f7d | What was the earliest confirmed evidence of the Chinese script? | oracle bones | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nThe earliest confirmed evidence of the Chinese script yet discovered is the body of inscriptions on oracle bones from the late Shang dynasty (c. 1200–1050 BC). These symbols, carved on pieces of bone and turtle shell being sold as \"dragon bones\" for medicinal purposes, were identified as Ch... |
5726d6265951b619008f7f7e | Where were the symbols carved on? | pieces of bone and turtle shell | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nThe earliest confirmed evidence of the Chinese script yet discovered is the body of inscriptions on oracle bones from the late Shang dynasty (c. 1200–1050 BC). These symbols, carved on pieces of bone and turtle shell being sold as \"dragon bones\" for medicinal purposes, were identified as Ch... |
5726d6265951b619008f7f7f | Where was the source of Oracle bones traced to? | village near Anyang in Henan Province | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nThe earliest confirmed evidence of the Chinese script yet discovered is the body of inscriptions on oracle bones from the late Shang dynasty (c. 1200–1050 BC). These symbols, carved on pieces of bone and turtle shell being sold as \"dragon bones\" for medicinal purposes, were identified as Ch... |
5726d6b4708984140094d2ef | What existed as early as the Shang dynasty? | oracle-bone script | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nThe traditional picture of an orderly series of scripts, each one invented suddenly and then completely displacing the previous one, has been conclusively demonstrated to be fiction by the archaeological finds and scholarly research of the later 20th and early 21st centuries. Gradual evolutio... |
5726d6b4708984140094d2f0 | What did the oracle-bone script coexist alongside? | bamboo books | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nThe traditional picture of an orderly series of scripts, each one invented suddenly and then completely displacing the previous one, has been conclusively demonstrated to be fiction by the archaeological finds and scholarly research of the later 20th and early 21st centuries. Gradual evolutio... |
5726d6b4708984140094d2f1 | What were preserved in typical bronze inscriptions? | bamboo books | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nThe traditional picture of an orderly series of scripts, each one invented suddenly and then completely displacing the previous one, has been conclusively demonstrated to be fiction by the archaeological finds and scholarly research of the later 20th and early 21st centuries. Gradual evolutio... |
5726d7d4708984140094d32b | What has evolved over time? | scripts | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nBased on studies of these bronze inscriptions, it is clear that, from the Shang dynasty writing to that of the Western Zhou and early Eastern Zhou, the mainstream script evolved in a slow, unbroken fashion, until assuming the form that is now known as seal script in the late Eastern Zhou in t... |
5726d7d4708984140094d32c | What type of forms are bird and insect scripts considered? | decorative | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nBased on studies of these bronze inscriptions, it is clear that, from the Shang dynasty writing to that of the Western Zhou and early Eastern Zhou, the mainstream script evolved in a slow, unbroken fashion, until assuming the form that is now known as seal script in the late Eastern Zhou in t... |
5726d7d4708984140094d32d | What is guwen considered as? | ancient forms | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nBased on studies of these bronze inscriptions, it is clear that, from the Shang dynasty writing to that of the Western Zhou and early Eastern Zhou, the mainstream script evolved in a slow, unbroken fashion, until assuming the form that is now known as seal script in the late Eastern Zhou in t... |
5726d8815951b619008f7fc3 | What has evolved slowly in the State of of Qin? | Seal script | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nSeal script, which had evolved slowly in the state of Qin during the Eastern Zhou dynasty, became standardized and adopted as the formal script for all of China in the Qin dynasty (leading to a popular misconception that it was invented at that time), and was still widely used for decorative ... |
5726d8815951b619008f7fc4 | What script runs counter to the traditional belief that the Qin dynasty had one script only? | clerical | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nSeal script, which had evolved slowly in the state of Qin during the Eastern Zhou dynasty, became standardized and adopted as the formal script for all of China in the Qin dynasty (leading to a popular misconception that it was invented at that time), and was still widely used for decorative ... |
5726d8815951b619008f7fc5 | What was invented in the early Han dynasty from the small seal script? | clerical script | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nSeal script, which had evolved slowly in the state of Qin during the Eastern Zhou dynasty, became standardized and adopted as the formal script for all of China in the Qin dynasty (leading to a popular misconception that it was invented at that time), and was still widely used for decorative ... |
5726d94d708984140094d379 | Were multiple scripts used during the Han period? | there were in fact multiple scripts in use | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nContrary to the popular belief of there being only one script per period, there were in fact multiple scripts in use during the Han period. Although mature clerical script, also called 八分 (bāfēn) script, was dominant at that time, an early type of cursive script was also in use by the Han by ... |
5726d94d708984140094d37a | What was one of the more dominant scripts during the time? | bāfēn | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nContrary to the popular belief of there being only one script per period, there were in fact multiple scripts in use during the Han period. Although mature clerical script, also called 八分 (bāfēn) script, was dominant at that time, an early type of cursive script was also in use by the Han by ... |
5726d94d708984140094d37b | What name stood for "orderly"? | zhāng | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nContrary to the popular belief of there being only one script per period, there were in fact multiple scripts in use during the Han period. Although mature clerical script, also called 八分 (bāfēn) script, was dominant at that time, an early type of cursive script was also in use by the Han by ... |
5726da9b708984140094d3a5 | What appeared at the end of the late Eastern Han period? | early form of semi-cursive script | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nBy the late Eastern Han period, an early form of semi-cursive script appeared, developing out of a cursively written form of neo-clerical script[c] and simple cursive. This semi-cursive script was traditionally attributed to Liu Desheng c. 147–188 AD,[d] although such attributions refer to ea... |
5726da9b708984140094d3a6 | What script was traditionally attributed to Liu Desheng? | semi-cursive | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nBy the late Eastern Han period, an early form of semi-cursive script appeared, developing out of a cursively written form of neo-clerical script[c] and simple cursive. This semi-cursive script was traditionally attributed to Liu Desheng c. 147–188 AD,[d] although such attributions refer to ea... |
5726da9b708984140094d3a7 | Who showed examples of early semi-cursive script? | Qiu | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nBy the late Eastern Han period, an early form of semi-cursive script appeared, developing out of a cursively written form of neo-clerical script[c] and simple cursive. This semi-cursive script was traditionally attributed to Liu Desheng c. 147–188 AD,[d] although such attributions refer to ea... |
5726db305951b619008f8027 | What had been linked to Zhong Yao? | Regular script | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nRegular script has been attributed to Zhong Yao, of the Eastern Han to Cao Wei period (c. 151–230 AD), who has been called the \"father of regular script\". However, some scholars postulate that one person alone could not have developed a new script which was universally adopted, but could on... |
5726db305951b619008f8028 | What was Zhong Yao known for? | father of regular script | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nRegular script has been attributed to Zhong Yao, of the Eastern Han to Cao Wei period (c. 151–230 AD), who has been called the \"father of regular script\". However, some scholars postulate that one person alone could not have developed a new script which was universally adopted, but could on... |
5726db305951b619008f8029 | Who was the son of Wang Zishi? | Wang Xianzhi | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nRegular script has been attributed to Zhong Yao, of the Eastern Han to Cao Wei period (c. 151–230 AD), who has been called the \"father of regular script\". However, some scholars postulate that one person alone could not have developed a new script which was universally adopted, but could on... |
5726db92708984140094d3cf | What were the North and South considered as? | dynasties | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nIt was not until the Northern and Southern dynasties that regular script rose to dominant status. During that period, regular script continued evolving stylistically, reaching full maturity in the early Tang dynasty. Some call the writing of the early Tang calligrapher Ouyang Xun (557–641) th... |
5726db92708984140094d3d0 | What continued to evolve stylistically? | regular script | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nIt was not until the Northern and Southern dynasties that regular script rose to dominant status. During that period, regular script continued evolving stylistically, reaching full maturity in the early Tang dynasty. Some call the writing of the early Tang calligrapher Ouyang Xun (557–641) th... |
5726db92708984140094d3d1 | What script saw no more stages of evolution? | mainstream | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nIt was not until the Northern and Southern dynasties that regular script rose to dominant status. During that period, regular script continued evolving stylistically, reaching full maturity in the early Tang dynasty. Some call the writing of the early Tang calligrapher Ouyang Xun (557–641) th... |
5726dc26708984140094d3e5 | What contains four strokes? | right half of the character | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nFor instance, to look up the character where the sound is not known, e.g., 松 (pine tree), the user first determines which part of the character is the radical (here 木), then counts the number of strokes in the radical (four), and turns to the radical index (usually located on the inside front... |
5726dc26708984140094d3e6 | What do some dictionaries have? | sub-index | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nFor instance, to look up the character where the sound is not known, e.g., 松 (pine tree), the user first determines which part of the character is the radical (here 木), then counts the number of strokes in the radical (four), and turns to the radical index (usually located on the inside front... |
5726dc26708984140094d3e7 | What gives remaining stroke numbers? | sub-index | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nFor instance, to look up the character where the sound is not known, e.g., 松 (pine tree), the user first determines which part of the character is the radical (here 木), then counts the number of strokes in the radical (four), and turns to the radical index (usually located on the inside front... |
5726dc90dd62a815002e931a | What often allow users to locate entries in several ways? | Chinese character dictionaries | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nChinese character dictionaries often allow users to locate entries in several ways. Many Chinese, Japanese, and Korean dictionaries of Chinese characters list characters in radical order: characters are grouped together by radical, and radicals containing fewer strokes come before radicals co... |
5726dc90dd62a815002e931b | What lists Chinese characters in radical order? | Korean dictionaries | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nChinese character dictionaries often allow users to locate entries in several ways. Many Chinese, Japanese, and Korean dictionaries of Chinese characters list characters in radical order: characters are grouped together by radical, and radicals containing fewer strokes come before radicals co... |
5726dc90dd62a815002e931c | What is grouped together by radicals? | characters | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nChinese character dictionaries often allow users to locate entries in several ways. Many Chinese, Japanese, and Korean dictionaries of Chinese characters list characters in radical order: characters are grouped together by radical, and radicals containing fewer strokes come before radicals co... |
5726dd13f1498d1400e8edb8 | What can be easily coined by writing on paper? | characters | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nWhile new characters can be easily coined by writing on paper, they are difficult to represent on a computer – they must generally be represented as a picture, rather than as text – which presents a significant barrier to their use or widespread adoption. Compare this with the use of symbols ... |
5726dd13f1498d1400e8edb9 | What can be difficult to represent on a computer? | characters | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nWhile new characters can be easily coined by writing on paper, they are difficult to represent on a computer – they must generally be represented as a picture, rather than as text – which presents a significant barrier to their use or widespread adoption. Compare this with the use of symbols ... |
5726dd13f1498d1400e8edba | What has their been a prominent supply of in the 20th century? | symbols | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nWhile new characters can be easily coined by writing on paper, they are difficult to represent on a computer – they must generally be represented as a picture, rather than as text – which presents a significant barrier to their use or widespread adoption. Compare this with the use of symbols ... |
5726dd7fdd62a815002e9334 | What can be coined at any time? | New characters | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nNew characters can in principle be coined at any time, just as new words can be, but they may not be adopted. Significant historically recent coinages date to scientific terms of the 19th century. Specifically, Chinese coined new characters for chemical elements – see chemical elements in Eas... |
5726dd7fdd62a815002e9335 | What may not be adopted? | new words | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nNew characters can in principle be coined at any time, just as new words can be, but they may not be adopted. Significant historically recent coinages date to scientific terms of the 19th century. Specifically, Chinese coined new characters for chemical elements – see chemical elements in Eas... |
5726dd7fdd62a815002e9336 | What are also known as Japanese-coinages? | kokuji | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nNew characters can in principle be coined at any time, just as new words can be, but they may not be adopted. Significant historically recent coinages date to scientific terms of the 19th century. Specifically, Chinese coined new characters for chemical elements – see chemical elements in Eas... |
5726ddf1f1498d1400e8edfe | What are not used in formal written Chinese? | dialect characters | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nIn addition, there are a number of dialect characters (方言字) that are not used in formal written Chinese but represent colloquial terms in non-Mandarin varieties of Chinese. One such variety is Written Cantonese, in widespread use in Hong Kong even for certain formal documents, due to the form... |
5726ddf1f1498d1400e8edff | What contains a block of characters used to showcase Hokkien Chinese? | Taiwan | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nIn addition, there are a number of dialect characters (方言字) that are not used in formal written Chinese but represent colloquial terms in non-Mandarin varieties of Chinese. One such variety is Written Cantonese, in widespread use in Hong Kong even for certain formal documents, due to the form... |
5726ddf1f1498d1400e8ee00 | What was the preference for all mainland regions? | Mandarin | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nIn addition, there are a number of dialect characters (方言字) that are not used in formal written Chinese but represent colloquial terms in non-Mandarin varieties of Chinese. One such variety is Written Cantonese, in widespread use in Hong Kong even for certain formal documents, due to the form... |
5726def0f1498d1400e8ee34 | What supports 48,027 characters? | the official national encoding standard | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nIn the Republic of China (Taiwan), which uses traditional Chinese characters, the Ministry of Education's Chángyòng Guózì Biāozhǔn Zìtǐ Biǎo (常用國字標準字體表, Chart of Standard Forms of Common National Characters) lists 4,808 characters; the Cì Chángyòng Guózì Biāozhǔn Zìtǐ Biǎo (次常用國字標準字體表, Chart ... |
5726def0f1498d1400e8ee35 | What supports 13,053 characters? | BIG-5 | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nIn the Republic of China (Taiwan), which uses traditional Chinese characters, the Ministry of Education's Chángyòng Guózì Biāozhǔn Zìtǐ Biǎo (常用國字標準字體表, Chart of Standard Forms of Common National Characters) lists 4,808 characters; the Cì Chángyòng Guózì Biāozhǔn Zìtǐ Biǎo (次常用國字標準字體表, Chart ... |
5726def0f1498d1400e8ee36 | What area uses traditional Chinese characters? | Taiwan | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nIn the Republic of China (Taiwan), which uses traditional Chinese characters, the Ministry of Education's Chángyòng Guózì Biāozhǔn Zìtǐ Biǎo (常用國字標準字體表, Chart of Standard Forms of Common National Characters) lists 4,808 characters; the Cì Chángyòng Guózì Biāozhǔn Zìtǐ Biǎo (次常用國字標準字體表, Chart ... |
5726dfbbf1498d1400e8ee40 | What country uses simplified Chinese characters? | China | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nIn China, which uses simplified Chinese characters, the Xiàndài Hànyǔ Chángyòng Zìbiǎo (现代汉语常用字表, Chart of Common Characters of Modern Chinese) lists 2,500 common characters and 1,000 less-than-common characters, while the Xiàndài Hànyǔ Tōngyòng Zìbiǎo (现代汉语通用字表, Chart of Generally Utilized C... |
5726dfbbf1498d1400e8ee41 | What lists 2,500 common characters? | Chart of Common Characters of Modern Chinese | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nIn China, which uses simplified Chinese characters, the Xiàndài Hànyǔ Chángyòng Zìbiǎo (现代汉语常用字表, Chart of Common Characters of Modern Chinese) lists 2,500 common characters and 1,000 less-than-common characters, while the Xiàndài Hànyǔ Tōngyòng Zìbiǎo (现代汉语通用字表, Chart of Generally Utilized C... |
5726dfbbf1498d1400e8ee42 | What is an early version of the national encoding standard used in the people's public of China? | GB2312 | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nIn China, which uses simplified Chinese characters, the Xiàndài Hànyǔ Chángyòng Zìbiǎo (现代汉语常用字表, Chart of Common Characters of Modern Chinese) lists 2,500 common characters and 1,000 less-than-common characters, while the Xiàndài Hànyǔ Tōngyòng Zìbiǎo (现代汉语通用字表, Chart of Generally Utilized C... |
5726e058f1498d1400e8ee4c | What is written in modern usage? | new characters | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nModified radicals and new variants are two common reasons for the ever-increasing number of characters. There are about 300 radicals and 100 are in common use. Creating a new character by modifying the radical is an easy way to disambiguate homographs among xíngshēngzì pictophonetic compounds... |
5726e058f1498d1400e8ee4d | What is one consequence of modifying radicals? | fossilization | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nModified radicals and new variants are two common reasons for the ever-increasing number of characters. There are about 300 radicals and 100 are in common use. Creating a new character by modifying the radical is an easy way to disambiguate homographs among xíngshēngzì pictophonetic compounds... |
5726e058f1498d1400e8ee4e | What combines "grain radical" with the "mouth radical"? | "harmony, peace" | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nModified radicals and new variants are two common reasons for the ever-increasing number of characters. There are about 300 radicals and 100 are in common use. Creating a new character by modifying the radical is an easy way to disambiguate homographs among xíngshēngzì pictophonetic compounds... |
5726e0b8f1498d1400e8ee5c | What does not include characters in the Chinese family? | Zhonghua Zihai | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nEven the Zhonghua Zihai does not include characters in the Chinese family of scripts created to represent non-Chinese languages. Characters formed by Chinese principles in other languages include the roughly 1,500 Japanese-made kokuji given in the Kokuji no Jiten, the Korean-made gukja, the o... |
5726e0b8f1498d1400e8ee5d | What is formed by Chinese principles? | Characters | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nEven the Zhonghua Zihai does not include characters in the Chinese family of scripts created to represent non-Chinese languages. Characters formed by Chinese principles in other languages include the roughly 1,500 Japanese-made kokuji given in the Kokuji no Jiten, the Korean-made gukja, the o... |
5726e0b8f1498d1400e8ee5e | What created over 5,000 characters with similar strokes? | Tangut script | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nEven the Zhonghua Zihai does not include characters in the Chinese family of scripts created to represent non-Chinese languages. Characters formed by Chinese principles in other languages include the roughly 1,500 Japanese-made kokuji given in the Kokuji no Jiten, the Korean-made gukja, the o... |
5726e1275951b619008f8137 | What remains unknowable? | The total number of Chinese characters from past to present | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nThe total number of Chinese characters from past to present remains unknowable because new ones are developed all the time – for instance, brands may create new characters when none of the existing ones allow for the intended meaning. Chinese characters are theoretically an open set and anyon... |
5726e1275951b619008f8138 | What becomes developed all the time? | Chinese characters | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nThe total number of Chinese characters from past to present remains unknowable because new ones are developed all the time – for instance, brands may create new characters when none of the existing ones allow for the intended meaning. Chinese characters are theoretically an open set and anyon... |
5726e1275951b619008f8139 | What is the best means of estimating the historical growth of character inventory? | number of entries in major Chinese dictionaries | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nThe total number of Chinese characters from past to present remains unknowable because new ones are developed all the time – for instance, brands may create new characters when none of the existing ones allow for the intended meaning. Chinese characters are theoretically an open set and anyon... |
5726e1b9dd62a815002e93be | What is one of the most complex characters in modern Chinese dictionaries? | U+9F49 | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nOne of the most complex characters found in modern Chinese dictionaries[g] is 齉 (U+9F49) (nàng, listen (help·info), pictured below, middle image), meaning \"snuffle\" (that is, a pronunciation marred by a blocked nose), with \"just\" thirty-six strokes. However, this is not in common use. Th... |
5726e1b9dd62a815002e93bf | What features 33 strokes? | xiān | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nOne of the most complex characters found in modern Chinese dictionaries[g] is 齉 (U+9F49) (nàng, listen (help·info), pictured below, middle image), meaning \"snuffle\" (that is, a pronunciation marred by a blocked nose), with \"just\" thirty-six strokes. However, this is not in common use. Th... |
5726e1b9dd62a815002e93c0 | What are among the most complex characters in modern dictionaries? | yù | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nOne of the most complex characters found in modern Chinese dictionaries[g] is 齉 (U+9F49) (nàng, listen (help·info), pictured below, middle image), meaning \"snuffle\" (that is, a pronunciation marred by a blocked nose), with \"just\" thirty-six strokes. However, this is not in common use. Th... |
5726e208f1498d1400e8ee92 | What have become more rare? | complex characters | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nThere are also some extremely complex characters which have understandably become rather rare. According to Joël Bellassen (1989), the most complex Chinese character is /𪚥 (U+2A6A5) zhé listen (help·info), meaning \"verbose\" and containing sixty-four strokes; this character fell from use a... |
5726e208f1498d1400e8ee93 | What is the most complex Chinese character? | zhé | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nThere are also some extremely complex characters which have understandably become rather rare. According to Joël Bellassen (1989), the most complex Chinese character is /𪚥 (U+2A6A5) zhé listen (help·info), meaning \"verbose\" and containing sixty-four strokes; this character fell from use a... |
5726e208f1498d1400e8ee94 | What is one 64-stroke character? | zhèng | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nThere are also some extremely complex characters which have understandably become rather rare. According to Joël Bellassen (1989), the most complex Chinese character is /𪚥 (U+2A6A5) zhé listen (help·info), meaning \"verbose\" and containing sixty-four strokes; this character fell from use a... |
5726e27e708984140094d4bd | Who is a Taiwanese politician? | Yu Shyi-kun | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nOne man who has encountered this problem is Taiwanese politician Yu Shyi-kun, due to the rarity of the last character in his name. Newspapers have dealt with this problem in varying ways, including using software to combine two existing, similar characters, including a picture of the personal... |
5726e27e708984140094d4be | What will often add bopomofo phonetic symbols? | movie posters | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nOne man who has encountered this problem is Taiwanese politician Yu Shyi-kun, due to the rarity of the last character in his name. Newspapers have dealt with this problem in varying ways, including using software to combine two existing, similar characters, including a picture of the personal... |
5726e27e708984140094d4bf | What may render certain names in katakana instead of kanji? | Japanese newspapers | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nOne man who has encountered this problem is Taiwanese politician Yu Shyi-kun, due to the rarity of the last character in his name. Newspapers have dealt with this problem in varying ways, including using software to combine two existing, similar characters, including a picture of the personal... |
5726e2fcf1498d1400e8eea2 | What have been constantly found in religious or ritual use? | Chinese characters | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nThe use of such contractions is as old as Chinese characters themselves, and they have frequently been found in religious or ritual use. In the Oracle Bone script, personal names, ritual items, and even phrases such as 受又(祐) shòu yòu \"receive blessings\" are commonly contracted into single c... |
5726e2fcf1498d1400e8eea3 | What seeks to limit the use of polysyllabic characters? | CPC | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nThe use of such contractions is as old as Chinese characters themselves, and they have frequently been found in religious or ritual use. In the Oracle Bone script, personal names, ritual items, and even phrases such as 受又(祐) shòu yòu \"receive blessings\" are commonly contracted into single c... |
5726e2fcf1498d1400e8eea4 | What is sometimes written as a single character? | bodhisattva | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nThe use of such contractions is as old as Chinese characters themselves, and they have frequently been found in religious or ritual use. In the Oracle Bone script, personal names, ritual items, and even phrases such as 受又(祐) shòu yòu \"receive blessings\" are commonly contracted into single c... |
5726e382708984140094d4e7 | What are disyllabic and usually written with two characters? | SI units | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nModern examples particularly include Chinese characters for SI units. In Chinese these units are disyllabic and standardly written with two characters, as 厘米 límǐ \"centimeter\" (厘 centi-, 米 meter) or 千瓦 qiānwǎ \"kilowatt\". However, in the 19th century these were often written via compound c... |
5726e382708984140094d4e8 | What is a less systematic example? | túshūguǎn | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nModern examples particularly include Chinese characters for SI units. In Chinese these units are disyllabic and standardly written with two characters, as 厘米 límǐ \"centimeter\" (厘 centi-, 米 meter) or 千瓦 qiānwǎ \"kilowatt\". However, in the 19th century these were often written via compound c... |
5726e382708984140094d4e9 | What is commonly written with a single character formed by combining the last character with the radical of the first? | socialism | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nModern examples particularly include Chinese characters for SI units. In Chinese these units are disyllabic and standardly written with two characters, as 厘米 límǐ \"centimeter\" (厘 centi-, 米 meter) or 千瓦 qiānwǎ \"kilowatt\". However, in the 19th century these were often written via compound c... |
5726e42b5951b619008f81a3 | What characters are often non-standard? | polysyllabic | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nA commonly seen example is the double happiness symbol 囍, formed as a ligature of 喜喜 and referred to by its disyllabic name (simplified Chinese: 双喜; traditional Chinese: 雙喜; pinyin: shuāngxǐ). In handwriting, numbers are very frequently squeezed into one space or combined – common ligatures i... |
5726e42b5951b619008f81a4 | What is a commonly seen example? | double happiness symbol | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nA commonly seen example is the double happiness symbol 囍, formed as a ligature of 喜喜 and referred to by its disyllabic name (simplified Chinese: 双喜; traditional Chinese: 雙喜; pinyin: shuāngxǐ). In handwriting, numbers are very frequently squeezed into one space or combined – common ligatures i... |
5726e42b5951b619008f81a5 | What is formed as a ligature? | double happiness symbol | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nA commonly seen example is the double happiness symbol 囍, formed as a ligature of 喜喜 and referred to by its disyllabic name (simplified Chinese: 双喜; traditional Chinese: 雙喜; pinyin: shuāngxǐ). In handwriting, numbers are very frequently squeezed into one space or combined – common ligatures i... |
5726e48f5951b619008f81a9 | What may be contracted into single characters? | compound words and set phrases | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nIn certain cases compound words and set phrases may be contracted into single characters. Some of these can be considered logograms, where characters represent whole words rather than syllable-morphemes, though these are generally instead considered ligatures or abbreviations (similar to scri... |
5726e48f5951b619008f81aa | What can be considered as set phrases? | single characters | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nIn certain cases compound words and set phrases may be contracted into single characters. Some of these can be considered logograms, where characters represent whole words rather than syllable-morphemes, though these are generally instead considered ligatures or abbreviations (similar to scri... |
5726e48f5951b619008f81ab | What are logograms? | characters represent whole words rather than syllable-morphemes | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nIn certain cases compound words and set phrases may be contracted into single characters. Some of these can be considered logograms, where characters represent whole words rather than syllable-morphemes, though these are generally instead considered ligatures or abbreviations (similar to scri... |
5726e540dd62a815002e9442 | What are primarily morphosyllabic? | Chinese characters | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nChinese characters are primarily morphosyllabic, meaning that most Chinese morphemes are monosyllabic and are written with a single character, though in modern Chinese most words are disyllabic and dimorphemic, consisting of two syllables, each of which is a morpheme. In modern Chinese 10% of... |
5726e540dd62a815002e9443 | What are written with a single character? | Chinese morphemes | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nChinese characters are primarily morphosyllabic, meaning that most Chinese morphemes are monosyllabic and are written with a single character, though in modern Chinese most words are disyllabic and dimorphemic, consisting of two syllables, each of which is a morpheme. In modern Chinese 10% of... |
5726e540dd62a815002e9444 | What have the same phonetic, but different radicals? | 蝴 hú of húdié and the 瑚 hú of shānhú | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nChinese characters are primarily morphosyllabic, meaning that most Chinese morphemes are monosyllabic and are written with a single character, though in modern Chinese most words are disyllabic and dimorphemic, consisting of two syllables, each of which is a morpheme. In modern Chinese 10% of... |
5726e5ab5951b619008f81bf | What are written with very precise rules? | Chinese characters | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nIn addition to strictness in character size and shape, Chinese characters are written with very precise rules. The most important rules regard the strokes employed, stroke placement, and stroke order. Just as each region that uses Chinese characters has standardized character forms, each also... |
5726e5ab5951b619008f81c0 | What has standardized character forms? | Chinese characters | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nIn addition to strictness in character size and shape, Chinese characters are written with very precise rules. The most important rules regard the strokes employed, stroke placement, and stroke order. Just as each region that uses Chinese characters has standardized character forms, each also... |
5726e5ab5951b619008f81c1 | What are also written with different stroke orders due to character simplification? | characters | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nIn addition to strictness in character size and shape, Chinese characters are written with very precise rules. The most important rules regard the strokes employed, stroke placement, and stroke order. Just as each region that uses Chinese characters has standardized character forms, each also... |
5726e604708984140094d52f | What have a characteristic shape? | Roman letters | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nJust as Roman letters have a characteristic shape (lower-case letters mostly occupying the x-height, with ascenders or descenders on some letters), Chinese characters occupy a more or less square area in which the components of every character are written to fit in order to maintain a uniform... |
5726e604708984140094d530 | What occupy a more or less space area? | Chinese characters | [
"Chinese_characters\n\nJust as Roman letters have a characteristic shape (lower-case letters mostly occupying the x-height, with ascenders or descenders on some letters), Chinese characters occupy a more or less square area in which the components of every character are written to fit in order to maintain a uniform... |
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