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Mandarin ( / ˈmændərɪn / ⓘ MAN-dər-in; simplified Chinese: 官话; traditional Chinese: 官話; pinyin: Guānhuà; lit. 'officials' speech') is a group of Chinese language dialects that are natively spoken across most of northern and southwestern China. The group includes the Beijing dialect, the basis of the phonology of Standard ...
Erhua. Erhua ( simplified Chinese: 儿化; traditional Chinese: 兒化 [ɚ˧˥xwä˥˩] ); also called erization or rhotacization of syllable finals [1]) is a phonological process that adds r-coloring or the er ( 注音 : ㄦ, common words: 耳 、 尔 、 儿 [2]) sound (transcribed in IPA as [ɚ]) to syllables in spoken Mandarin Chinese.
Many Japanese words of Portuguese origin entered the Japanese language when Portuguese Jesuit priests and traders introduced Christian ideas, Western science, technology and new products to the Japanese during the Muromachi period (15th and 16th centuries). The Portuguese were the first Europeans to reach Japan and the first to establish direct ...
Shingon Buddhism (真言宗, Shingon-shū) is a branch of the Vajrayana Buddhism introduced to Japan by Kūkai in 816, who traveled to China and studied the Chinese Mantrayana tradition. Shingon is based mainly on two tantric scriptures, the Mahavairocana Tantra and the Vajrasekhara Sutra (金剛頂経, Kongōchōkyō).
The egg roll is a variety of deep-fried appetizer served in American Chinese restaurants. It is a cylindrical, savory roll with shredded cabbage, chopped meat, or other fillings inside a thickly-wrapped wheat flour skin, which is fried in hot oil. [1] The dish is served warm, and is usually eaten with the fingers, dipped in duck sauce, soy ...
sangō (山号) – the so-called "mountain name" of a temple, always ending in "mount" (山), read -zan (e.g. "Tōei zan Kan'ei-ji Endon'in") or -san. The other two are, in order, the jigō and the ingō. The use of the sangō came into fashion after the arrival of Zen Buddhism to Japan, therefore not all temples have one.
Yakuwarigo. Yakuwarigo ( Japanese: 役割語, "role language") is a style of language, often used in works of fiction, that conveys certain traits about its speaker such as age, gender, and class. [1] It is particularly used in reference to the styles of speech found in Japanese-language media such as manga, anime, and novels.
Japanese (日本語, Nihongo, [ɲihoŋɡo] ⓘ) is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people. It has around 120 million speakers, primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language, and within the Japanese diaspora worldwide. The Japonic family also includes the Ryukyuan languages ...
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