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  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › PinyinPinyin - Wikipedia

    22 hours ago · Hanyu Pinyin, or simply pinyin, is the most common romanization system for Standard Chinese. In official documents, it is referred to as the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet. [1] [2] It is the official system used in China, Singapore, Taiwan, and by the United Nations. Its use has become common when transliterating Standard Chinese mostly regardless ...

    • 1950s
    • Alphabet, romanization
  3. 22 hours ago · 永 'forever' or 'permanence', a Chinese character that represents a variety of strokes, and is often used to demonstrate the major stroke categories. Strokes ( simplified Chinese: 笔画; traditional Chinese: 壁畫; pinyin: bǐhuà) are the smallest structural units making up written Chinese characters. In the act of writing, a stroke is ...

  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › HokkienHokkien - Wikipedia

    22 hours ago · Most of the Min Nan dialects of this region have incorporated some foreign loanwords. Hokkien is reportedly the native language of up to 80% of the ethnic Chinese people in the Philippines, among which is known locally as Lán-nâng-uē ("Our people's speech"). Hokkien speakers form the largest group of overseas Chinese in Singapore, Malaysia ...

  5. 22 hours ago · Serica. 支那. Shina. 天下. Tianxia. v. t. e. The names of China include the many contemporary and historical designations given in various languages for the East Asian country known as 中国; 中國; Zhōngguó; 'Central state', 'Middle kingdom' in Standard Chinese, a form based on the Beijing dialect of Mandarin .

    • Zhōngguó
    • ᡩᡠᠯᡳᠮᠪᠠᡳ, ᡤᡠᡵᡠᠨ
    • Middle or Central State
    • Cungguek
  6. 22 hours ago · The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent. Some European languages of this family— English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Dutch, and Spanish —have expanded through colonialism in the modern period and are now spoken across several ...

    • † indicates this branch of the language family is extinct
    • Proto-Indo-European
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  8. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › BRICSBRICS - Wikipedia

    22 hours ago · BRICS is an intergovernmental organization comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates.Originally identified to highlight investment opportunities, the grouping evolved into a cohesive geopolitical bloc, with their governments meeting annually at formal summits and coordinating multilateral policies since 2009.

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