With thanks to Dr. Liane Davey for explaining the Chinese character to me.
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And yes, we sometimes inexplicably suffer from the Chinese character syndrome mentioned above.
The Chinese character for his name means vermilion, the color used on the gates of wealthy people's mansions in old China.
Apparently, the Chinese character for listening is made up of other characters (or perhaps traces of characters) for the ear, the eye, and the heart.
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"One thing is clear: China will continue the development course it has chosen - socialism with the specific Chinese character, " declares state-owned Rossiyskaya Gazeta .
Politics and water control, the Chinese character implies, are intimately linked.
"Kurosawa tells me to keep my own Chinese character and style, " while embracing the outside world, wrote director Zhang Yimou in a recent Time magazine appreciation.
As well as using Chinese character sets, Kylin will also do more to support the way Chinese people interact with computers as well as reflect China's date conventions.
Which brings me back to listening and that Chinese character.
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Neo's character, an unpolished Chinese-educated executive, speaks Mandarin with his wife, inadequate English in the office and Hokkien with his coffee-shop buddies.
Two hundred members of a Chinese family are reportedly changing surname because the character used to write it is so rare computers do not recognise it.
Adiga, Time magazine's Asia correspondent, exposes the underbelly of India's new Tiger economy using a series of letters sent by her main character, Balram, to the Chinese prime minister.
The story focuses on character and plot more than many Chinese epics do, and its presentation is modern, using slow-mo fight replays and computer-animated anatomy sequences to illustrate the forensic detective work.
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So the group proposed assigning one code to each character with a common meaning in Chinese, Japanese and Korean, even though, in practice, the same ideogram is often written differently by different nationalities.
The other main character is Liang Qichao, a leading Chinese intellectual in the twilight of the last imperial dynasty, the Qing, and the chaotic early years after it fell in 1911.
For example, in 2011's Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon, Shia LaBeouf wears a T-shirt made by Chinese clothing maker Metersbonwe and, in one scene, a character drinks a carton of Shuhua milk made by dairy group Yili.
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