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I’ll break it down: Chinese characters seem very complex to write. Indeed, the Chinese characters are generally complicated, for example, some characters require over 40 …
Yes, 江智 is a valid Chinese name. However, The Pinyin version of 江智 is written as Jiāng Zhì. The surname 江 could mean river. There …
Because Chinese is written in ideograms (hanzi) while English is written in phonetic symbols (Latin alphabet). Each Chinese character represents an idea – a noun, an adjective, a …
They are called Latin or Roman characters. It were the Romans who invented the alphabet English uses, and they used it to write Latin. The Chinese …
It’s been Latinized Confucius is one of the most influential Chinese philosophers. His philosophy, Confucianism, forms the basis of much of what we think of …
My pastor and his wife are from Guangdong and immigrated to the US about 10–12 years ago. They speak Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka, Hokkien, and he …
I studied Russian for three years in high school. By the time I had done that, I could kind of patch together a shaky Russian …
I use Zhuyin and this is part of the keyboard for my PC. As you can see ㄅㄆㄇㄈat the left of the picture where ㄆ …
No, alphabet based systems aren’t easier to write. It simply shifts the difficulty from one aspect of writing to another. Let’s take English for example. …
The dialects in the North are more closely related to each other because travel was a lot easier. The topography map below shows mountain elevations …