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Topic: Chinese characters

Related:
  Chinese    Characters  
  Chinese English    Chinese New  
  Chinese Medicine    Chinese language  
  Letter Character    COMIC CHARACTERS  
  ASCII characters    Character Design  
  Traditional Chinese    Cartoon Characters  

 
 
 Vital Stats
The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:
Most admires:Johannes Gutenberg
Favorite possession(s):Dictionary,  Typewriter
Religion(s):Taoist
Favorite board game(s):Mahjong
Favorite body part(s):Fists
Favorite activity(s):Coloring in
Favorite food(s):Chinese
Favorite actor(s):Bruce Lee
Favorite great leader(s):Mao Zedong,  Douglas MacArthur
Favorite sport(s):Karate
Favorite destination(s):China,  Japan,  Asia
Favorite philosopher(s):Confucius
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 Expert Talk
The Brain has selected interesting relevant sentences from the web. It automatically assigned them to some of our fictitious experts based on their personalities.


Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant

The five smaller characters to the left of the main text indicates that the chit was issued by the Commission for Aeronautical Affairs of the Chinese Nationalist government.
Steve Riggins,
Software Deveoper

Chinese Language Supplement - offers developers full support for Chinese characters as well as a corresponding input method.
Chinese characters are used in parts of this site, you'll need a Big5 Chinese enabled web viewer or a decoding software like NJStar to view the Chinese characters.
Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk

Today its characters are revered as gods and sages in much of the Chinese speaking world.
Gradually, Chinese characters were adapted to represent the Japanese language, but Chinese continued for centuries to be the primary written language of the world of men, government, and all other "serious" endeavors.
Zhang Xian Qian,
Ex-Olympic Swimmer

All Chinese terms are provided in complex as well as simplified characters, Pinyin transcription, and English translation with phonetic pronunciation.
The two Chinese characters signifying the concept of the Middle Way are Zhong Dao.
The Chinese characters for Yin and Yang mean, literally, the sunny side of the hill and the shady side of the hill.
Mike Enlow,
Internet Marketer

Chinese Domain Names are an interesting new way to use chinese characters as the web site address, to access your site.
Dan Toomey,
Computer Salesman

Chinese characters were coming out blank on the user's printer, but printing fine to screen.
Keiko Miyisawa,
Receptionist

On the basis of the Chinese and Japanese readings of these characters there were devised the phonetic manyokana characters which in turn were simplified into the hiragana and katakana systems in about the 9th century.
Kanji are Chinese characters as used in the Japanese language.
 
 
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