Tai chi (simplified Chinese: 太极; traditional Chinese: 太極; pinyin: Tàijí), short for T'ai chi ch'üan or Tàijíquán (太極拳), sometimes also known as "Shadowboxing", is an internal Chinese martial art practiced for defense training, health benefits, and meditation. Tai chi has practitioners worldwide. Yang Shaohou, Yang Chengfu, Wu Chien-ch'üan and Sun Lutang promoted the art ...

Yamatai or Yamatai-koku (邪馬台国) (c. 1st century – c. 3rd century) is the Sino-Japanese name of an ancient country in Wa (Japan) during the late Yayoi period (c. 1,000 BCE – c. 300 CE). The Chinese text Records of the Three Kingdoms first recorded the name as /jia mˠaˣ dʌi/ (邪馬臺) or /jia mˠaˣ ʔiɪt̚/ (邪馬壹; using reconstructed Middle Chinese pronunciations) followed ...

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Assist, I pray you, me, the one man, to carry out the punishment appointed by Heaven [tian]. I will greatly reward you. On no account disbelieve me; — I will not eat my words. If you do not obey the words which I have spoken to you, I will put your children with you to death; — you shall find no forgiveness." (tr. James Legge 1865:173–5)

Google Dictionary is an online dictionary service of Google that can be accessed with the "define" operator and other similar phrases in Google Search. It is also available in Google Translate and in the form of an extension for Google Chrome.The dictionary content is licensed from Oxford University Press's OxfordDictionaries.com. It is available in different languages such as English, …

History Creation (1847–1854) The Deseret alphabet was a project of the Mormon pioneers, a group of early followers of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) which set about building a new society in the Utah desert after the death of the church's founder, Joseph Smith.The Deseret alphabet was just one of many ways that the Mormon pioneers tried to …

A transcription into Chinese characters can sometimes be a phono-semantic matching, i.e. it reflects both the sound and the meaning of the transcribed word.For example, "Modern Standard Chinese 声纳 shēngnà "sonar", uses the characters 声 shēng "sound" and 纳 nà "receive, accept".声 shēng is a phonetically imperfect rendering of the English initial syllable.

The phonology of Standard German is the standard pronunciation or accent of the German language.It deals with current phonology and phonetics as well as with historical developments thereof as well as the geographical variants and the influence of German dialects.. While the spelling of German is officially standardised by an international organisation (the Council for …

The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Japanese language and Okinawan pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see {{}}, {{}} and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.Examples in the charts are Japanese words transliterated according to …

Czech orthography is a system of rules for correct writing (orthography) in Czech.. The modern Czech orthographic system is diacritic, having evolved from an earlier system which used many digraphs (although some digraphs have been kept - ch, dž).The caron is added to standard Latin letters to express sounds which are foreign to Latin.The acute accent is used for long vowels.