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Neither Chinese punctuation standard requires full-width marks
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A Simplified-first pinyin library trips over Taiwan's Zhuyin readings
Run the text of Taiwan's primary-school dictionary through pinyin-pro, a widely used pinyin library, and it disagrees wi...
Chinese knots are far older than the name a 1981 Taipei book made common in Taiwan
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South Korea's limit on hanja in names is an exact sum of three lists
South Korea's schools have a list of 1,800 basic hanja, and its name rules allow 9,389 entries (인명용 한자), which is t...
Phone number lengths across ASEAN's eleven members, from the regulators' own plans
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