Two temples print the same Guanyin oracle and not one of its hundred poems matches
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Four governments publish stroke order and only one publishes the rules
Taiwan publishes seventeen numbered principles. The mainland publishes 8,105 per-character orders and no principles at a...
Half the pronunciation changes people argued about had already happened
The viral lists of Chinese readings the ministry supposedly changed trace to a 2016 draft that was never issued. But the...
Taiwan's passport rules name no romanisation system at all
The received account is that Taiwan uses Wade-Giles, or 通用拼音, or has moved to Hanyu Pinyin. Article 14 of the passpo...
The letter Chinese passports will not print
Hanyu Pinyin has a letter no Chinese travel document will print: ü. The rule that replaces it is two rules, not one — 吕...
花 has seven strokes, and eight, and ten
Count it on the mainland and you get seven. Taiwan's education ministry says eight. A 五格 name reading says ten — a num...
The 226-page book that decides how Macau spells your name
Macau has a statutory table for romanising Cantonese names, running 226 pages of the 1985 gazette. Hong Kong has no rule...
Most 火星文 converters are running the same copied file
Feed the same characters to several Martian-text converters and most agree exactly. That looks like a standard. It is on...
Why a converter turns a toast into an obscenity
干杯 converts to 乾杯 correctly. Insert one character and 干了一杯 comes back 幹了一杯, which reads as an obscenity in T...
Most advice on writing Chinese dates quotes a standard that was replaced in 2011
The rules for numbers and dates in Chinese publications were revised in 2011. A great deal of guidance, including the st...
The Chinese festivals that are set by the sun, not the moon
Most Chinese festivals fall on a lunar date, and two of the best known do not. Qingming and the Winter Solstice are fixe...
The character that means a million in Beijing and a million million in Taipei
兆 is the SI prefix for mega on the mainland and for tera in Taiwan. It is not a gap between the two conventions but a s...
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