• The Shanghainese language, also known as the Shanghai dialect, or Hu language, is a variety of Wu Chinese spoken in the central districts of the city of...
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    Shanghainese people (Chinese: 上海人; pinyin: Shànghǎirén; Shanghainese: Zaanhe-nyin [zɑ̃̀hɛ́.ɲɪ̀ɲ]) are an ethnic group of Shanghai Hukou descent or people...
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  • Look up Shanghainese in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Shanghainese is a variety of Wu Chinese spoken in the central districts of the City of Shanghai...
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    Shanghainese people in Hong Kong have played an important role in the region, despite being a relatively small portion of the Han Chinese population. "Shanghainese"...
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    followed by Min (75 million, e.g. Southern Min), Wu (74 million, e.g. Shanghainese), and Yue (68 million, e.g. Cantonese). These branches are unintelligible...
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    no fish. It is used in Haipai cuisine, especially on pork chops and Shanghainese borscht. A descendant of an earlier form of the sauce is found in Taiwan...
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    the greatest influence on Shanghainese. After 1949, Putonghua (Standard Mandarin) has also had a great impact on Shanghainese as a result of being rigorously...
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  • The culture of Shanghai or Shanghainese culture is based on the Wuyue culture from the nearby Jiangsu and Zhejiang province, with a unique "East Meets...
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    Shanghai cuisine (Chinese: 上海菜; pinyin: Shànghǎi cài; Shanghainese: zaon⁶ he⁵ tshe¹; IPA: [zɑ̃¹¹ he⁴⁴ tsʰᴇ¹¹]), also known as Hu cuisine (simplified Chinese:...
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    traditional Chinese: 吳語; pinyin: Wúyǔ; Wugniu and IPA:6wu-gniu6 [ɦu˩.nʲy˦] (Shanghainese), 2ghou-gniu6 [ɦou˨.nʲy˧] (Suzhounese)) is a major group of Sinitic languages...
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    permitted to use Shanghainese, but increasing restrictions against Shanghainese in schools were put in place. About 40% of Shanghainese residents below...
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    include Northern Wu lects such as Shanghainese and Suzhounese, though it is largely breaking down in Shanghainese due to Mandarin influence. Sinitic...
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  • Chinese Sign Language (abbreviated CSL or ZGS; simplified Chinese: 中国手语; traditional Chinese: 中國手語; pinyin: Zhōngguó Shǒuyǔ) is the main sign language...
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  • Regions with significant populations Tel Aviv, Haifa, Jerusalem Languages Shanghainese, Mandarin Chinese, Hebrew Religion Buddhism, Taoism, Christianity, Judaism...
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    some areas in Hong Kong where migrants concentrated, such as Sai Wan. Shanghainese, or Wu Chinese in general, was commonly spoken by migrants who escaped...
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    Xintiandi (Chinese: 新天地; pinyin: Xīntiāndì, Shanghainese: Shinthidi lit. "New Heaven and Earth", fig. "New World") is an affluent car-free shopping, eating...
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    non-Cantonese Chinese cuisines (especially Hakka, Teochew, Hokkien and Shanghainese), as well as Japanese, Korean and Southeast Asian cuisines, due to Hong...
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    杨梅; traditional Chinese: 楊梅; pinyin: yángméi; Cantonese: yeung4 mui4; Shanghainese: [ɦiɐ̃².mɛ⁴]), yamamomo (Japanese: ヤマモモ), Chinese bayberry, red bayberry...
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    Chinese Indonesians (Indonesian: Orang Tionghoa Indonesia), or simply Orang Tionghoa or Tionghoa, are Indonesians whose ancestors arrived from China at...
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    Tongyong Pinyin Sí Jìn-píng MPS2 Shí Jìn-píng IPA [ɕǐ tɕîn.pʰǐŋ] Wu Shanghainese Romanization Zih⁸ Jin⁶-bin⁶ Hakka Romanization Sip6 Kiun4 Pin2 Pha̍k-fa-sṳ...
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    Teochew) as their mother tongue. Varieties of Wu Chinese, particularly Shanghainese and the mutually unintelligible Wenzhounese, are spoken by a minority...
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  • In the Mood for Love (category Shanghainese-language films)
    and one of the major works of Asian cinema. In 1962 British Hong Kong, Shanghainese expatriates Chow Mo-wan, a journalist, and Su Li-zhen (Mrs. Chan), a...
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  • but cannot be inputted using certain IMEs, with one example being the Shanghainese-language character U+20C8E 𠲎 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-20C8E—a composition...
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  • Blossoms Shanghai (category Shanghainese-language television shows)
    Wang (Wang Mingzhu) Xin Zhilei as Li Li You Benchang as Ye Shu (Yaso in Shanghainese) Zheng Kai as Mr Wei Chen Long as Tao Tao Wu Yue as Jin Hua Papi Jiang...
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    appeared on a tour titled after the book. Along with English, Yang speaks Shanghainese, Cantonese and Mandarin Chinese. Yang's father, Richard Ouyang, later...
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  • Swedish of Sweden, Western Basque, Yaqui, certain dialects of Korean, Shanghainese, and Livonian. Pitch-accent languages tend to fall into two categories:...
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  • Mandarin and Xuanzhou Wu Chinese. The Shanghainese people are centered around Shanghai and speak the Shanghainese dialect of Wu. Ningbo people are another...
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    Austroasiatic Vietic 85 million 1 million 86 million Wu Chinese (incl. Shanghainese) Sino-Tibetan Sinitic 83 million <1 million 83 million Tagalog Austronesian...
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    in transliteration from Cantonese 雲吞 / 云吞 (wan4 tan1) and wenden from Shanghainese 餛飩 / 馄饨 (hhun den). Even though there are many different styles of wonton...
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  • pinyin in general does not mark tones. The name Wugniu comes from the Shanghainese pronunciation of 吴语. Either of them is the default romanization scheme...
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