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  2. Telegram style - Wikipedia

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    Telegram style, telegraph style, telegraphic style, or telegraphese [1] is a clipped way of writing which abbreviates words and packs information into the smallest possible number of words or characters. It originated in the telegraph age when telecommunication consisted only of short messages transmitted by hand over the telegraph wire.

  3. List of long place names - Wikipedia

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    Sri Lanka: Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (23 letters) Some long U.S. place names appearing in the Geographic Names Information System are: [33] Winchester-on-the-Severn, Maryland, and Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas (21 letters, longest hyphenated place names in the U.S.) Rancho Santa Margarita, California.

  4. List of jōyō kanji - Wikipedia

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    Although the official document does not specifically designate the characters which this statement applies to, it is likely that it is applicable to the following 14 characters: 淫・葛・僅・煎・詮・嘲・捗・溺・塡・賭・剝・箸・蔽・頰. ^ abcdeThe 5 kanji 餌・遡・遜・謎・餅 use one of the radicals 辶 / 𩙿. As ...

  5. Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi - Wikipedia

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    An HSK (Level 6) Examination Score Report. The Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi (HSK; Chinese: 汉语水平考试; pinyin: Hànyǔ Shuǐpíng Kǎoshì), translated as the Chinese Proficiency Test, is the People's Republic of China's standardized test of proficiency in PRC Standard Chinese (one of the two forms of Standard Chinese along with ROC Standard Chinese) for non-native speakers such as foreign ...

  6. List of Unicode characters - Wikipedia

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    1 Control-C has typically been used as a "break" or "interrupt" key. 2 Control-D has been used to signal "end of file" for text typed in at the terminal on Unix / Linux systems. Windows, DOS, and older minicomputers used Control-Z for this purpose. 3 Control-G is an artifact of the days when teletypes were in use.

  7. Modern Chinese characters - Wikipedia

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    Since 噸 is both a character and a word, it is a polyphonic monosemous character, as well as a polyphonic monosemous word. In December 1985, the Chinese government published the Table of Mandarin Words with Variant Pronunciation (普通话异读词审音表) to define the standard pronunciations for polyphonic monosemous characters.

  8. Chinese character meanings - Wikipedia

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    A character with only one meaning is a monosemous character, and a character with two or more meanings is a polysemous character. According to statistics from the "Chinese Character Information Dictionary", among the 7,785 mainland standard Chinese characters in the dictionary, there are 4,139 monosemous characters and 3,053 polysemous characters.

  9. Chinese character orders - Wikipedia

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    Single-character words are arranged by character sorting directly, and multi-character words can be sorted character by character in a similar way. In the following sections, there is a general introduction to the orders and sorting methods currently in use, focused on those which are more popular and effective.