Yunfu Cantonese or Yunfu vernacular (simplified Chinese: 云浮白话; traditional Chinese: 雲浮白話) is a dialect of Yue Chinese spoken in Yunfu, Guangdong, China...
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spoken in Yunfu, including the Yunfu Dialect (Chinese: 云浮白话) of Cantonese, Hakka, Min-nan, and the Taigu Dialect (Chinese: 㑷古话). The Yunfu Dialect is...
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雲安區; pinyin: Yún'ān Qū) is a district of Yunfu, Guangdong province, China. It used to be a county of Yunfu, called Yun'an County, but it has been changed...
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Chenghai, Nanhai, Shantou, Shaoguan, Zhanjiang, Zhaoqing, Yangjiang, and Yunfu. Guangdong has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa inland, Cwa along...
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Guangzhou (category Pages with Cantonese IPA)
speak and understand Cantonese, 20% can understand Cantonese, but unable to speak it, and 11% completely had no knowledge of Cantonese. Jinan University's...
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Province in the People's Republic of China. It borders Maoming to the west, Yunfu to the north, Jiangmen to the east, and looks out to the South China Sea...
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combined into Fengkai); Gaoming (now part of Foshan); Xinxing (now part of Yunfu); Heshan, Kaiping, and Enping (now part of Jiangmen); and Yangchun and Yangjiang...
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Shunde (Shun Tak in Cantonese) is a district of the city of Foshan, Guangdong province, located in the Pearl River Delta. It had a population of 2,464...
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Law-lin Tsi (category Hong Kong Cantonese opera actresses)
Chinese actress and Cantonese opera singer from Hong Kong. Tsi is credited with over 140 films. In 1924, Tsi was born as Chow Kit Lin in Yunfu, Guangdong province...
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to the SCMP, some Shenzhen residents, Cantonese and non-Cantonese alike, have attempted to revive the Cantonese language as part of Shenzhen's culture...
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Xinxing County (category Yunfu)
alternately romanized as Sunhing, is a county of the prefecture-level city of Yunfu in the west of Guangdong province, China. Xinxing County was formally established...
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used until the Cantonese and Tanka immigrants from the zone of Pearl River - capital district of Province of Guangdong with their Cantonese Language have...
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Foshan (category Pages with Cantonese IPA)
the biggest urban area of the world. Foshan is regarded as the home of Cantonese opera, a genre of Chinese opera; Nanquan, a martial art; and lion dancing...
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Macau (category Pages with Cantonese IPA)
澳門, Cantonese: [ōu.mǔːn] Officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (Chinese: 中華人民共和國澳門特別行政區; Cantonese Yale:...
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Taishan, Guangdong (category Pages with Cantonese IPA)
Chinese: 臺山; pinyin: Táishān; Jyutping: Toi4saan1), alternately romanized in Cantonese as Toishan or Toisan, in local dialect as Hoisan, and formerly known as...
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Hong Kong (category Pages with Cantonese IPA)
generally believed to be an early phonetic rendering of the Cantonese (or Tanka Cantonese) phrase hēung góng. The name translates as "fragrant harbour"...
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gaohu player Lü Wencheng (吕文成, 1898–1981) remain particularly popular. Cantonese opera is popular in Pearl River Delta. Musical institutions in Guangdong...
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generations, speak Mandarin fluently. Cantonese language TV and labor migrations to the Pearl River Delta has also made Cantonese widely spoken as a third language...
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Middle Chinese (category Pages with Cantonese IPA)
into an optional "medial" glide (yùntóu 韻頭), a main vowel or "nucleus" (yùnfù 韻腹) and an optional final consonant or "coda" (yùnwěi 韻尾). Most reconstructions...
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a person. It was originally named Xiangshan (香山, "Fragrant Mountain"; Cantonese: Heung-saan), but was renamed in 1925 in honor of Sun Yat-sen, who is...
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Maoming city borders Zhanjiang to the west, Yangjiang to the east, and Yunfu to the northeast, and is 362 kilometers (225 mi) from Guangzhou and 121...
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Hakka Chinese (Huiyang dialect), Huizhou dialect, Hokkien dialect, and Cantonese. Huizhou is the headquarters of the 42nd Group Army of the People's Liberation...
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sandalwood, which are said to preserve the body after death. Guangzhou's "Cantonese" cuisine is famous worldwide, and Hangzhou is known for its prosperity...
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Huineng (category People from Yunfu)
Dajian Huineng (traditional Chinese: 大鑒惠能; pinyin: Dàjiàn Huìnéng; Wade–Giles: Ta⁴-chien⁴ Hui⁴-nêng²; Japanese: Daikan Enō; Korean: Daegam Hyeneung; February...
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peninsula's linguistic and ethnic majority, while others like the Baiyue, Cantonese, Tanka, foreigners lived on the coast of the peninsula. The region served...
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western Guangdong, was built in sections from 1958 to 1991. The Sanshui-Yunfu section was completed in 1983. The entire line entered operations on May...
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make their pronunciation approach to Guangzhou Cantonese, the standard and authoritative dialect to Cantonese. Chen Jitang, military officer during the era...
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(simplified Chinese: 开平; traditional Chinese: 開平), alternately romanized in Cantonese as Hoiping, in local dialect as Hoihen, is a county-level city in Guangdong...
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pronunciations from the Northern and Southern dynasties. Rime table Peiwen Yunfu Ramsey (1987), pp. 116–117. Norman (1988), p. 25. Baxter (1992), p. 37....
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Huizhou Meizhou Yangjiang Shanwei Heyuan Qingyuan Dongguan Zhongshan Jieyang Yunfu Guizhou *Guiyang Liupanshui Zunyi Anshun Bijie Tongren Qianxinan (Buyei...
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