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Chinese reign era names were reused by rival courts, and most Ming and Qing emperors began theirs at New Year
Chinese emperors named their years by era names, and a date was written as the era plus a year count. Catalogues disagre...
Most Chinese characters share their four-corner code with other characters
The four-corner code turns the stroke shapes at a Chinese character's corners into digits, a lookup method Wang Yunwu ma...
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Over a third of a Hokkien dictionary's syllables change between Pe̍h-ōe-jī and Tâi-lô
Pe̍h-ōe-jī (POJ) and Tâi-lô are two ways of writing Hokkien in Latin letters, and Tâi-lô is the scheme Taiwan's Ministry...
Mainland and Taiwan telegraph codebooks nearly always give a Hong Kong ID card character the same code below 8000
The four-digit groups under a Chinese name on a Hong Kong identity card are telegraph codes, which the Immigration Depar...
Taiwan's marriage law extends to second cousins, and other ways cousins are counted
A cousin's degree and removal come from counting the generations from each person up to the ancestor they share. Counted...
Chinese knots are far older than the name a 1981 Taipei book made common in Taiwan
The name Chinese knot (中國結) became common in Taiwan after a 1981 Taipei book, according to the Taipei City Government...
Mandarin rhymes share a Pingshui rhyme group about half the time
Two level-tone characters that rhyme exactly in Putonghua share a 平水韵 group only about half the time, by our count of...
Xiehouyu are mostly metaphors, and many Mandarin puns miss in Cantonese
外甥打燈籠──照舅 is a pun in Mandarin and not in Cantonese. Taiwan's Ministry of Education dictionary lists 305 xiehouyu...
The temple's own grades for Wong Tai Sin's 100 fortune sticks
Sik Sik Yuen publishes all 100 Wong Tai Sin fortune sticks with their verses and grades. How the five grades divide the...
Classical Chinese particles, counted in the Analects and Mencius
About a quarter of the Analects and Mencius is 23 small grammatical words. How often 之, 也, 矣, 焉 and 乎 appear, which...
The notes that can go in an ang bao for Lunar New Year 2027
Lunar New Year 2027 falls on 6 February. Which notes you can get for an ang bao, lai see or 紅包 in Singapore, Malaysia,...
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