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When years are (or were) written using Hanzi numerals, what are the usual variants/options?
Today is 二零二三年十一月四日 (04- Nov-2023)
in 公曆 (Gregorian calendar) 2023 is a date, not a counting number, therefore, it is not written as 二千零二十三 as in $2023 (二千零二十三元)
壹贰叁肆伍陆柒捌玖 mostly appear in cheques or ...
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When years are (or were) written using Hanzi numerals, what are the usual variants/options?
In the Shāng-Zhōu era, years used standard Chinese numerals (or an old spelling of one, such as 「亖」 instead of 「四」), and were typically found in the following format:
隹（唯・惟）王Ｘ祀
'Tis the Xth year of ...
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Seeking Help Deciphering Characters on Small (Lead?) Vase with Teapot Enclosed
picture 5 should be preceding picture 4
the text is in seal script, read as:
子子孫萬年永用
roughly means: [my] descendants used [this caved item] cherishly for ten thousand years
the original verse used in ...
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How do written Chinese works, such as novels, handle dialogue from characters with accents?
One way is to write their sentences using incorrect characters that present their pronunciation as well as putting the correct characters in parentheses to present their meaning.
Example: "他一口鸟哈气 ...
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How to Format Chinese Address?
Receiver name: Liu Kai
Receiver address: 50 Yan He Road 2nd floor, San Sheng Village, Shatian Town, Dongguan City, Guangdong Province, China 523000
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Ideas for Chinese leetspeak/computerized speech?
Leetspeak, as defined in your question, consists in respelling the words of a language using all of the scripts at its disposal. English has only two: an alphabetic one (a-z) and a numeric one (1-9).
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Writer looking for Chinese name for a character
My suggestion is 辛玉梅
辛 - family name, could mean bitterness, difficulties, but also spiciness, sharp
玉 - jade
梅 - plum bloosom, a chinese character symbolizing resilience and persistence.
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Lowest pixel resolution needed to support Chinese?
Fonts designed with 7×7 characters
Note that in some font names and bitmap strike sizes below, "8 pixels" refers to 7 pixels character size plus 1 pixel spacing between characters, whereas ...
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How do you learn and remember 左 and 右?
工口 look like the number 10. 1 is on the left, and 0 is on the right.
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Where can I find Codecademy for Written Chinese?
I once made letslearnchinese.org. The apps on this platform will help Chinese language learners build up concepts, especially about characters. It won't walk you through exercises step by step, but it ...
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Where can I find Codecademy for Written Chinese?
I know multiple people who have used duolingo, it is not the best choice. this is because it is a cookie cutter app to multiple languages, most are very different from chinese. however there are ...
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Where can I find Codecademy for Written Chinese?
i think Duolingo can be helpful with this, even if I occasionally misspell a letter in a word, it doesn't award a mark deduction.
and this book 图解汉字 (ISBN 9787511367099)
but it all written in Chinese. ...
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