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	Chinese character (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Chinese characters are used to varying degrees in written forms of the Chinese Japanese and Korean languages (though the latter only in South Korea).
		Chinese characters have disappeared from Vietnamese — where they were used until 20th century — and North Korea where they have been completely replaced Hangul.
		Chinese characters (漢字) are called hànzì in Chinese kanji in Japanese hanja or hanmun in Korean and hán tư (also used in the chu nom script) in Vietnamese.
	www.freeglossary.com /Chinese_character (2411 words)

	Chinese character (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The more common types Chinese characters, on the other hand, are 'radical-radical' compounds, in which each element (radical) of the character hints at the meaning, and radical-phonetic' compounds, in which one component (the radical) indicates the kind of concept the character describes, and the other hints at the pronunciation.
		The first component (or "radical") simply tells that the character denotes a female entity, whereas the second acts as a pronunciation guide by referring to the word for "horse", which is also pronounced 'ma', though in a different tone.
		The earliest Chinese characters are the so called "Oracle Script" or (甲骨文) jia3gu3wen2 during the Shang Dynasty, followed by the Bronzeware Script or (金文) jin1wen2 during the Zhou Dynasty.
	www.fastload.org /ch/Chinese_character.html (1018 words)

	Chinese character - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Four percent of Chinese characters are derived directly from individual pictograms (Chinese: 象形字; pinyin: xiàngxíngzì), and in most of those cases the relationship is not necessarily clear to the modern reader.
		Most modern Chinese dictionaries and Chinese dictionaries sold to English speakers use the traditional radical-based character index in a section at the front, while the main body of the dictionary arrange the main character entries alphabetically according to their pinyin spelling.
		Chinese characters are sometimes used to this day for either clarification in a practical manner, or to give a distinguished appearance, as knowledge of Chinese characters is considered a high class attribute and an indispensable part of a classical education.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chinese_character (6419 words)

	Chinese
		Examples of Chinese characters, which always represent syllables, showing their derivation (except for the 1% noted in Figure 17) from two elements -- a primary phonetic element (i.e., one of the 895 syllabic elements in the "Soothill Syllabary"), and an added semantic element (i.e., one of the 214 elements traditionally called radicals or keys).
		Chinese spelling as represented by its phonetic elements is erratic, inefficient, and difficult to master.
		The second sense of the term refers to the structure of Chinese characters and is intended to draw attention to the fact that, in most cases, a character is composed of two elements, a phonetic grapheme which suggests the syllabic pronunciation of the full character, and a semantic element which hints at its meaning.
	www.pinyin.info /readings/texts/visible/index.html (9905 words)

	radical Information Center - free radicals
		Learning to write Chinese characters, even the most complicated, means mastering the fundamental laparoscopic radical prostatectomy graphic components of characters and then learning which ones are used in particular characters and how they are combined.
		To look this character up in a dictionary, one finds the radical for "human" in the part of dictionary that indexes radicals, finds the page for that radical, and then passes through the lists of characters with one additional stroke, 2 additional strokes, etc. until one radical forgiveness reaches the entries with 7 additional strokes.
		Though radicals are widely accepted as a method to categorize Chinese characters and to locate a certain character in a dictionary, there is no universal agreement about either the exact number of radicals, or the set of preventing free radicals radical sr3 for sale radicals.
	www.scipeeps.com /Sci-Linguistic_Topics_R_-_T/radical.html (2598 words)

	Kanji Summary
		Japan's aggression in China during the 1930s led to dramatic drops in the resident Chinese population in Japan, a trend that was countered by the importation of approximately forty thousand Chinese for slave labor primarily in Japanese mines.
		There is some disagreement about how Chinese characters came to Japan, but it is generally accepted that Buddhist monks from the kingdom of Baekje in Korea brought Chinese texts to the country during the 5th century.
		While kanji are essentially Chinese hanzi used to write Japanese, there are now significant differences between kanji and hanzi, including the use of characters created in Japan, characters that have been given different meanings in Japanese, and post WWII simplifications of the kanji.
	www.bookrags.com /Kanji (4726 words)

	Chinese character classification - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Although Chinese characters are often called ideograms, only a handful fit this category in any sense, and sinologists and linguists discourage referring to Chinese characters as ideograms, as this term has led to a misconception that characters represent ideas directly, whereas in fact they do so only through association with the spoken word.
		The earliest significant, extant corpus of Chinese characters is found on turtle shells and the bones of livestock, chiefly the scapula of oxen, for use in pyromancy, a form of divination.
		The phonetic element of a semantic-phonetic character represented the exact or almost-exact pronunciation of the character when the character was first created; and characters sharing the same phonetic part had the same reading.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chinese_character_classification (1781 words)

	Chinese Language Keyboard
		Because of the sheer number of Chinese characters they they do not lend themselves to practical keyboard representation as required for technological utilization such as commercial correspondence and business reports and particularly for newspaper and magazine composition at speeds necessary for mass distribution requirements.
		To appreciate the extent of the character classification problem, consider that almost ninety percent of the characters have two elements, a radical (semantic) element and a phonetic (sound) element; the remainder being either single element or three element characters.
		Because neither of the two characters illustrated in Figure C3 required the actuation of the thumb keys or the shift and options keys, and therefore they are two characters out of a possible 729 characters which can be specified using the character keys alone.
	www.pages.drexel.edu /~garfinkm/Picto.html (6096 words)

	Language Log: Scrapie in ancient China?
		He observes that the character for the word yang³ "to itch, to tickle", is 痒, and that 痒 is composed of ⽧ "illness" plus 羊 yang² "sheep", and makes a similar observation about another character.
		Wickner mistakenly took the character "to itch" to be composed of two semantic units, a type of character known as 會意 in Chinese.
		Such characters consist of a radical, which represents some aspect of the meaning of the character, and a phonetic, which as its name suggests is chosen for having, in Old Chinese, a sound similar (but not necessarily identical) to, the word in question.
	itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/003058.html (470 words)

	Chinese Character Data (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In the course of developing a Chinese dictionary and character memorization aid program (Hanzim), I investigated a large number of public domain Chinese dictionary and character data sources available online.
		Radicals according to a classification commonly used on the mainland, along with stroke count, pinyin, and English gloss (214 entries).
		List of character, frequency expressed as a rank from 0 (most frequent 10%) to 9 (least frequent 10%), pinyin, and English translation (6706 entries); characters with multiple pronunciations have their LESS frequent versions marked with a *.
	kamares.ucsd.edu /~arobert/hanziData.html (772 words)

	Powell's Books - Chinese
		This dictionary is a must for every Chinese language student because it is the only dictionary indexed by the root of the...
		Chinese Characters: Their Origin, Etymology, History, Classification and Signfication.
		Chinese words are presented here in characters and romanized forms, and organized alphabetically for quick reference....
	www.powells.com /psection/Chinese.html (715 words)

	1994 Plum Blossom Pu-erh Cake
		During compression our 1994 Plum Blossom Pu-erh Cakes are embossed with the Chinese character for tea on one side, and a pattern of the plum blossom on the other.
		Having been aged for more than ten years, this pu-erh tea cake is ready to drink now and will improve further with keeping.
		"Chinese Tea for You" also has the 1994 Plum Blossom Pu-erh Cake Bundle, containing five cakes, at a saving.
	www.chineseteaforyou.com /site/1023330/product/910 (282 words)

	Ideogram information - Search.com
		"Ideograms" is commonly used to describe logographic writing systems such as Egyptian hieroglyphs and Chinese characters.
		The term "ideogram" or "ideograph" is also used to describe two of the six ways in which Chinese characters were designed.
		Ideogram: Chinese Characters and the Myth of Disembodied Meaning.
	www.search.com /reference/Ideogram (198 words)

	1994 Plum Blossom Pu-erh Cake Bundle
		The cakes are specially packed in dried bamboo leaves and tied together with straw.
		Having been aged for more than ten years, these pu-erh tea cakes are ready to drink now and will improve further with keeping.
		"Chinese Tea for You" also offers 1994 Plum Blossom Pu-erh Cake, as individual cakes.
	www.chineseteaforyou.com /site/1023330/product/911 (300 words)

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