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Lin Yutang (1895–1976) was an influential Chinese scholar, linguist, educator, inventor, translator, and author of works in Chinese and English. Lin's Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage was his second lexicographical effort. From 1932 to 1937, he compiled a 65-volume monolingual Chinese dictionary that was destroyed by Japanese troops ...
Hongkonger (Filipino/Tagalog: Taga-Hong kong / Intsik; Philippine Hokkien simplified Chinese: 香港仔 / 香港人; traditional Chinese: 香港仔 / 香港儂; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Hiong-káng-á / Hiong-káng-lâng, Mandarin Chinese: 香港人; pinyin: Xiānggǎngrén, Cantonese Chinese: 香港人; Jyutping: Hoeng 1 gong 2 jan 4)—refers to people ...
Anti-Filipino sentiment in Hong Kong rose again after the 2010 hostage crisis in Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines, in which a bus full of mostly Hong Kong tourists riding in a Hong Thai Bus was brutally, cruelly, violently and fatally besieged by a corrupt former Filipino police officer, [16] and where subsequent investigations found Filipino ...
Philippine Hokkien [f] is a dialect of the Hokkien language of the Southern Min branch of Min Chinese descended directly from Old Chinese of the Sinitic family, primarily spoken vernacularly by Chinese Filipinos in the Philippines, where it serves as the local Chinese lingua franca [9] within the overseas Chinese community in the Philippines and acts as the heritage language of a majority of ...
Triad (organized crime) A triad ( traditional Chinese: 三合會; simplified Chinese: 三合会; Jyutping: saam1 hap6 wui6; Cantonese Yale: sāam hahp wúi; pinyin: sān hé huì) is a Chinese transnational organized crime syndicate based in Greater China with outposts in various countries having significant overseas Chinese populations.
Macau[ e ] or Macao[ f ] is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China. With a population of about 710,000 people [ 11 ] and a land area of 32.9 km 2 (12.7 sq mi), it is the most densely populated region in the world. Formerly a Portuguese colony, the territory of Portuguese Macau was first leased to Portugal by the Ming ...
Ching chong, ching chang chong, and chung ching are ethnic slurs used to mock or imitate the Chinese language, people of Chinese ancestry, or other people of East Asian descent perceived to be Chinese. The term is a derogatory imitation of Mandarin and Cantonese phonology. [1] The phrases have sometimes accompanied assaults or physical ...
29,992 posts. 29 reviews. 57 helpful votes. 1. Re: Electronic Dictionary English-Cantonese. 16 years ago. these electronic dictionaries would be a lot cheaper in HK/China. If you are just visiting HK, I don't think these are worthwhile investments unless you do intend to learn Chinese in the long run.