Hsu Hung-chi or Xu Hongji (#simplifiedChinese: 许鸿基; #traditionalChinese: 許鴻基; #pinyin: Xǔ Hóngjī) (1934–1984) was a Taiwanese #martialArtist who specialized in the #Neijia of #xingyiquan, #baguazhang and #taijiquan. Hsu was born in Taihoku, #TaihokuPrefecture, in 1934 to a family of six brothers. In school, he was very athletic and participated in swimming, soccer and #judo. He began his study of #ShaolinKungFu with his father at an early age. He also learned boxing.

What’s in a Chinese name: scientists fight for identity when forced to use Latin alphabet https://www.byteseu.com/876739/ #BeihangUniversity #ChengGong #ChineseAuthors #ChineseLanguage #ChineseLanguageInScience #ChineseNames #ChineseNamesInScience #ChineseResearchers #GenderEquality #JiangsuNormalUniversity #nature #PetroChinaResearchInstitute #pinyin #PinyinNamesInScience #Science #ScienceNet #UniversityOfScienceAndTechnologyBeijing #Wuhan #YuanBo #ZhangQifa

Hehua #station (#Chinese: 禾花站; #pinyin: Héhuā Zhàn), is a station on #Line10 of the #ShenzhenMetro. It opened on August 18, 2020.

Does anyone know of a functional #foss #pinyin keyboard for #android or #aosp?
I have one for Zhuyin, but while I'm still learning that I'd like to have something that allows me to type #Chinese on my phone.

David Zhuang (#Chinese: 莊永祥; #pinyin: Zhuāng Yǒngxiáng, born September 1, 1963) is a #professional Chinese-born American table tennis player. Zhuang began playing table tennis competitively at age 11, and was a professional player at age 12. One of his schoolmates was #JiangJialiang, the 1985 and 1987 #WorldTableTennisChampion. David moved to the United States in 1990, and became one of the top players in the country. Championships won by David Zhuang:

Dongmen (#simplifiedChinese: 东门镇; #traditionalChinese: 東門鎮; #pinyin: Dōngmén Zhèn; zhuang: Dunghmonz Cin) is a town under the administration of #FusuiCounty in southern #GuangxiZhuangAutonomousRegion, #China. As of 2011, it had an area of 378.2 square kilometres (146.0 sq mi) populated by 44,000 people residing in 1 residential communities (社区) and 15 villages.

While it would have been even better if those involved had followed through with proper tone marks and spelling (e.g., “dragon” should be “_lóng_”), _Pīnyīn_ plays a significant role in presenting to the world _Black Myth: Wukong_, China’s first blockbuster AAA game. https://www.theworldofchinese.com/2024/10/lost-in-translation-localization-challenge-black-myth-wukong/

The #NationalMuseumOfTaiwanHistory (NMTH; #traditionalChinese: 國立臺灣歷史博物館; #simplifiedChinese: 国立台湾历史博物馆; #pinyin: Guólì Táiwān Lìshǐ Bówùguǎn) is a museum in #AnnanDistrict, #Tainan, Taiwan, covering the history of the island nation of Taiwan and its associated islands.

Part1: From [2024-01-06 Sat]
#mastadon #emacs #chinese #pinyin #elisp #lisp
I am working on major update to my Emacs package for quick pinyin search.
I am going to add search of Chinese hieroglyphs by pinyin.

During my work I collected often used functions:
flatten list by one level
: (apply 'append v)
all or every
: (defun all (l) (cl-every #'identity l))
all or every nil
: (defun allnil (l) (cl-every #'null l))
any t
: (defun any (l) (cl-some #'identity l))
any nil
: (defun anynil (l) (cl-some #'null l))
Apply map to every leaf of a tree like list
(defun maptree (f l)
(mapcar (lambda (x) (if (listp x)
(maptree f x)

(funcall f x)
)) l))

From [2024-01-10 Wed]
#emacs #chinese #pinyin

I finally released a major update to my Emacs package
that allow to search with toneless pinyin in Chinese
characters and in normal pinyin text.

It is \"isearch submode\".

You just press: C-s nu, and it will find for you 女 and nǚ.

By default it looks for both pinyin and Chinese characters,
but you can switch to pinyin with M-s p and to characters
with M-s h keys.

Code uses translation table (named Quail map) from Quail
minor mode (input multilingual text easily).
It is possible to adopt this code to many other
languages. ☆

I spent one month to code this (⚆i⚆) and I am going to use
it for the rest of my life. _/¯(⏿⏿)¯\_

From [2023-12-30 Sat]
Emacs: In my package for Chinese pinyin search I rewrited code
for isearch integration.
I did not read carefully whole isearch.el for before.
I found macro for simple intergration, but fixes is required still.
Much of code I just removed, that is why research and planning is critical.

Emacs is far from perfect, but I didn't saw anything compareble.
I am shure that my code will be usable in next 15-30 years.

Happy new year! ☤
#emacs #chinese #pinyin

From [2023-12-24 Sun]
I just have published my first package to MELPA as a pull request.
Shortly it will be accessible by everyone. ^‿^

It allow to search Chinese pinyin text by pinyin but without tones.

My plugin have unit tests, Github Action to test building with
stable Emacs versions and platforms and handle isearch with great care.

It was hard to make it to search only pinyin and ignore
common english text accurate, because I use it constantly.

I spent much time for optimization and for following to contribution guidlines.

I plan to integrate another package pinyin-search that search
Chinese characters with pinyin, to mine later. ♲
#emacs #chinese #pinyin

This must be one of the most confusing instructions I’ve so far seen.
#duolingo #chinese #pinyin

I didn't find any Chinese courses near me so I decided to try HSK books first to train my ears and learn the basics. 5 mistakes looks like a lot but it's quite difficult for my ears to hear the difference so I think it's a good progress.

Any #NVDA user has a suggestion on what I can do to get #Chinese #pinyin tone markers indicated when I read by letter? Some tone markers are, for example á or à, but others aren't.

Cao Yu (#Chinese: 曹雨; #pinyin: Cáo Yǔ; born 1988; BFA & MA, Sculpture, #CentralAcademyOfFineArts) is a #contemporaryArtist whose work span a diverse range of media that encompass #installation, #sculpture, #Photography, #video and #performance and #painting.

So used to pinyin and 普通话 Chinese, I instinctively read this as "車門".

Kuan Chung-ming (#Chinese: 管中閔; #pinyin: Guǎn Zhōngmǐn; born 15 August 1956) is a Taiwanese politician and academic. He was the last minister of the #CouncilForEconomicPlanningAndDevelopment from 2013 to 2014 and served as the first minister of the succeeding government agency, the #NationalDevelopmentCouncil (NDC), from 2014 to 2015. He was formerly the President of #NationalTaiwanUniversity from 2019- to 2023.