Differing literary and colloquial readings for certain Chinese characters are a common feature of many Chinese varieties, and the reading distinctions...

communication; literary readings are close to modern Mandarin, normally appearing in written language. The literary and colloquial readings have been developing...

Mandarin, while literary readings tend to resemble modern standard Mandarin. For example, in the Yaoling dialect (摇铃话), the colloquial reading of "物" (means...

complex rules for literary and colloquial readings of Chinese characters. For example, the character for big/great, 大, has a vernacular reading of tōa ([tua˧])...

both literary and colloquial readings: This feature extends to Hokkien numerals, which have both literary and colloquial readings. Literary readings are...

as follows: The literary and colloquial readings is a feature commonly found in all Chinese dialects throughout China. Literary readings are mainly used...

in initial, rime and tone: 網 ([mœŋ˦˨] / [uoŋ˧˨]) When there is a difference between literary and colloquial readings, the colloquial one is used in vernacular...

"dō" and 泉 "sen". In Chinese, most characters are associated with a single Chinese sound, though there are distinct literary and colloquial readings. However...

[y] and [u] in Mandarin, along with eastern Shanxi and some Southwestern Mandarin dialects. The existence of literary and colloquial readings is a notable...

words, they usually only have native kun readings. However, they occasionally also have a Chinese on reading derived from a related kanji, such as 働 (dō...

set of traditional characters is regulated by the Ministry of Education and standardized in the Standard Form of National Characters. These forms were...

/ˈrɛdɪŋ/) may also refer to: Literary and colloquial readings of Chinese characters Readings of kanji in Japanese Reading (computer), an action performed...

previous jōyō kanji list. Twenty-eight kanji gained new readings, three kanji lost obscure readings and the kun'yomi of 側 was changed from kawa (かわ) to gawa...

characters (see Literary and colloquial readings of Chinese characters). The following examples in Pe̍h-oē-jī show differences in readings in Taiwanese Hokkien:...

hiragana and katakana. When a character would have two readings, a diacritic may be added to the character to indicate the "indigenous" reading. The two...

fully merged with 阳去 tone. Therefore, 买 and 卖 has the exact same pronunciation in literary and colloquial readings. The tone sandhi present in Suzhou dialect...

Chinese often come into existence due to differences between literary and colloquial readings of Chinese characters. Other homographs may have been created...

Shanghainese. Wu, like other Chinese languages, have literary and colloquial readings of many characters. The literary layer was brought to the region during the...

among non-Mandarin regional languages in having a written colloquial standard, used in Hong Kong and overseas, with a large number of unofficial characters...

additionally developed systems of readings and annotations that enabled non-Chinese speakers to interpret Literary Chinese texts in terms of the local...

and was adopted as the formal script across all of China during the Qin dynasty (221–206 BC). It was still widely used for decorative engraving and seals...

developed within the state of Qin during the Eastern Zhou dynasty (771–256 BC), and was then promulgated across China in order to replace script varieties used...

literary and colloquial readings of Chinese characters—borrowed readings and native readings. In Chinese these borrowed readings and native readings are...

Differing literary and colloquial readings of certain Chinese characters are common doublets in many Chinese varieties, and the reading distinctions...

local spoken vernaculars, texts were read aloud using literary and colloquial readings that varied by region. Over time, sound mergers created ambiguities...

China and Taiwan, with minor vocabulary differences. It is the Mandarin variant used in education, media, and official settings. Meanwhile, a colloquial form...

dynasty (c. 1250 – c. 1046 BC) and Western Zhou dynasty (c. 1046 – 771 BC). Types of bronzes include zhong bells and ding tripodal cauldrons. Early inscriptions...

teachers when reading aloud HKWC texts in the colloquial pronunciation. Some regular differences between colloquial and literary readings in Cantonese...

cinema' (国语电影; Guóyǔ diànyǐng). In Taiwan, Guoyu is the colloquial term for Standard Chinese. In 2017 and 2018, the Taiwanese government introduced two laws...

strokes to different keys and adopted a new way of categorizing Chinese characters. But the typewriter was not produced commercially and Lin soon found himself...