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"ref": "1669, John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China, London: John Macock, page 163:",
"text": "There are no Publick Schools in all China (though ſome Writers have erroneouſly ſet forth the contrary) but every perſon chuſes his own Maſter, by whom he is taught in his Houſe, at his own charge. And in regard of the great difficulty in teaching the Chineſe Characters, in reſpect of their vaſt number and variety, it is impoſſible for one to teach many ſeveral perſons ; and therefore every Maſter of a Family takes an Intſructer into his Houſe for his Children, of whom if there be two or three to learn, they are as many as one Tutor can well teach.",
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"text": "Had it not been for the casual discovery in the year 1625 of a deeply buried black marble tablet near Hsi-an containing nearly 1,700 Chinese characters, and a long list of names of priests in Syriac, the fact that such a sect rooted itself in the Celestial Empire would never have been believed, as indeed after the tablet was unearthed it was for a long time discredited.",
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"sense": "CJKV character",
"word": "चीनी चरित्र"
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"sense": "CJKV character",
"word": "kínai írásjegy"
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{
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"word": "சீன எழுத்துமுறை"
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"sense": "CJKV character",
"word": "చైనీస్ లిపి"
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"lang": "Thai",
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"sense": "CJKV character",
"word": "อักษรจีน"
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"word": "ฮั่นจื้อ"
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"_dis1": "64 36",
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"word": "Çince yazı karakteri"
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"_dis1": "64 36",
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"feminine"
],
"word": "кита́йська писе́мність"
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{
"_dis1": "64 36",
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"word": "Hán tự"
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"_dis1": "64 36",
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"sense": "CJKV character",
"word": "chữ Nho"
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"sense": "CJKV character",
"word": "chữ Nôm"
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"_dis1": "64 36",
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"sense": "CJKV character",
"word": "chữ Hán"
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"_dis1": "64 36",
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"sense": "CJKV character",
"word": "sawgun"
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{
"_dis": "52 48",
"kind": "lifeform",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Moths",
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"Arthropods",
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"ref": "1669, John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China, London: John Macock, page 163:",
"text": "There are no Publick Schools in all China (though ſome Writers have erroneouſly ſet forth the contrary) but every perſon chuſes his own Maſter, by whom he is taught in his Houſe, at his own charge. And in regard of the great difficulty in teaching the Chineſe Characters, in reſpect of their vaſt number and variety, it is impoſſible for one to teach many ſeveral perſons ; and therefore every Maſter of a Family takes an Intſructer into his Houſe for his Children, of whom if there be two or three to learn, they are as many as one Tutor can well teach.",
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"ref": "1912, Arthur Henderson Smith, “Uplifting Leaders”, in The Uplift of China, →OCLC, page 117:",
"text": "Had it not been for the casual discovery in the year 1625 of a deeply buried black marble tablet near Hsi-an containing nearly 1,700 Chinese characters, and a long list of names of priests in Syriac, the fact that such a sect rooted itself in the Celestial Empire would never have been believed, as indeed after the tablet was unearthed it was for a long time discredited.",
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{
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{
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ḥarf ṣīniyy",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "حَرْف صِينِيّ"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ṭābiʕ ṣīniyy",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
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"sense": "CJKV character",
"word": "رَمْز صِينِيّ"
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{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
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"sense": "CJKV character",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "hānzī",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "هَانْزِي"
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "kitájski jeroglíf",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "han jeroglíf",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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{
"code": "my",
"lang": "Burmese",
"roman": "ta.rutcalum",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"word": "တရုတ်စာလုံ"
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"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"word": "漢字"
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{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "hon³ zi⁶",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"word": "汉字"
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{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "tong⁴ zi⁶",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"word": "唐字"
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"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
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"sense": "CJKV character",
"word": "字"
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"lang": "Chinese",
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"sense": "CJKV character",
"tags": [
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"lang": "Eastern Min Chinese",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"word": "漢字"
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{
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"lang": "Eastern Min Chinese",
"roman": "háng-cê",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"word": "汉字"
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{
"code": "gan",
"lang": "Gan Chinese",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"word": "漢字"
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{
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"lang": "Gan Chinese",
"roman": "hon³ ci²",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"word": "汉字"
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{
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"sense": "CJKV character",
"word": "漢字"
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{
"code": "hak",
"lang": "Hakka Chinese",
"roman": "hon-sṳ",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"word": "汉字"
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{
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"lang": "Chinese",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"tags": [
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{
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"lang": "Chinese",
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"sense": "CJKV character",
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"sense": "CJKV character",
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"code": "cmn",
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"code": "wuu",
"lang": "Wu Chinese",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"word": "漢字"
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{
"code": "wuu",
"lang": "Wu Chinese",
"roman": "⁵hoe-zy",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"word": "汉字"
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"lang": "Danish",
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"tags": [
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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"word": "ĉina signo"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"word": "kiinalainen kirjoitusmerkki"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sinogramme"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "hanzi"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kanji"
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{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "carácter chinés"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "chinesisches Zeichen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "Hanzi"
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{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "cīnī caritra",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"word": "चीनी चरित्र"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"word": "kínai írásjegy"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"word": "kínai karakter"
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{
"code": "is",
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"sense": "CJKV character",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"word": "aksara Tionghoa"
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{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"word": "Hanzi"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "carachtar Sínise"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Hansaí"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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},
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"lang": "Japanese",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"tags": [
"kanji"
],
"word": "漢字"
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{
"alt": "漢字",
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"lang": "Korean",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"tags": [
"hanja"
],
"word": "한자"
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"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "kineski znak",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "кинески знак"
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"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "hance",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"word": "ханце"
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"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"word": "Aksara Cina"
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{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"word": "Hanzi"
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{
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "xanz",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "ханз"
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{
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "xjatad xanz",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "хятад ханз"
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{
"alt": "かんじ",
"code": "ryu",
"lang": "Okinawan",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"tags": [
"kanji"
],
"word": "漢字"
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{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "harf-e čini",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"word": "حرف چینی"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "harf-e hân",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"word": "حرف هان"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "caractere chinês"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "caracter chinezesc"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "caracter chinez"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kitájskij ijeróglif",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "кита́йский иеро́глиф"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "xanʹczý",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ханьцзы́"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kitájskaja písʹmennostʹ",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "кита́йская пи́сьменность"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kitájskoje pisʹmó",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "кита́йское письмо́"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"note": "can also be derogatory, \"something unreadable\"",
"roman": "kitájskaja grámota",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "кита́йская гра́мота"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "кинески карактер"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "kineski karakter"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "carácter chino"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"tags": [
"colloquial",
"feminine",
"plural"
],
"word": "letras chinas"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "hanzi"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"word": "kinesiska tecken"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"word": "hanzi"
},
{
"code": "ta",
"lang": "Tamil",
"roman": "cīṉa eḻuttumuṟai",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"word": "சீன எழுத்துமுறை"
},
{
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "cainīs lipi",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"word": "చైనీస్ లిపి"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "àk-sɔ̌ɔn jiin",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"word": "อักษรจีน"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "hân-jʉ̂ʉ",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"word": "ฮั่นจื้อ"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"word": "Çince karakter"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"word": "Çince yazı karakteri"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"word": "hanzi"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "kytájsʹka pysémnistʹ",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "кита́йська писе́мність"
},
{
"alt": "漢字",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"word": "Hán tự"
},
{
"alt": "字儒",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"word": "chữ Nho"
},
{
"alt": "字喃",
"code": "vi",
"english": "specific to Vietnamese",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"word": "chữ Nôm"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"word": "chữ Hán"
},
{
"code": "za",
"lang": "Zhuang",
"sense": "CJKV character",
"word": "sawgun"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Chinese character"
],
"word": "Chinese character"
}
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