It also contains a Chinese-English dictionary and can recognize Chinese characters written with a stylus.
But the words can come in a phonetic English form, Chinese characters and even spoken form.
The information entropy of Chinese characters is 11.3 while the information entropy of English characters is 4.7.
Everywhere, there were also bright blue government-issued tents with the Chinese characters for "disaster relief" printed in white.
Men are trained to draw and engrave Chinese characters, which are then set into a type-page and printed.
One guide to French food zips through a recipe for baked sea bream with almonds in just 129 Chinese characters.
However, there is one fundamental difference, which is that 140 Chinese characters contain significantly more information content than 140 English characters.
The addition of Japanese kana, the written language's two syllabic scripts, to kanji, or Chinese characters, adds another layer of complexity.
The 100-plus pages in this section fulfill this purpose, and the inclusion of Chinese characters for local names will prove particularly useful.
Nokia also created a couple of handsets just for China, the 6108 and 3108, which use stylus input to handle written Chinese characters.
Scrolls with Chinese characters and flowers decorate Ms. Friedman's office, which features a red-lacquer desk to match the red shelves in her library.
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First, there are the artful and intricate Chinese characters to master.
Buy a reliable phrasebook and point to the relevant Chinese characters.
Borrowing the first two letters from the Chinese characters of the word "dream, " or "meng xiang, " the MX is a dream phone in all its senses.
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Ask your hotel concierge to write down addresses for taxi drivers, and remember to take a hotel card with the address in Chinese characters for the return trip.
It does not take much research to discover that BYD are the initials of the Chinese characters Bi Ya Di, which does not mean anything but sounds foreign or Western.
Last month, Apple unveiled a host of new features tailored to Chinese users, including integrating its operating systems with Chinese Internet services and making it easier to input Chinese characters.
These machines use technology similar to videogame consoles of five years ago but have full-sized keyboards, display Chinese characters on a TV screen and can run a wide variety of educational and entertainment software.
Since then, he said, the playing field has leveled: The Wayans brothers played "White Chicks" in the film of the same name, and Eddie Murphy has played several ethnicities in his films, including Jewish and Chinese characters.
As you head up the mountains and the forest advances to the edge of the country roads, you can easily make out the ownership markings of individual bamboo trees written in black Chinese characters on their trunks.
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According to those who have followed the attack at the SANS Institute's Internet Storm Center, a cybersecurity crisis response organization, the infection tool is partially written in Chinese characters and compiled on a computer with Chinese language settings.
With the same wit and precision he brings to his lyrics, he fielded questions about the challenges of rhyming traditional Chinese characters (complete with a demonstration), why living in Los Angeles hasn't influenced his aesthetic (but Bali might), and his progress on a stage adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Coraline.
When Coca-Cola began looking for a suitable Chinese version of its name after launching the drink there in 1927, it found that some local shopkeepers had produced homemade signs using Chinese characters to replicate the sound of the words "Coca-Cola, " without noticing that the characters in combination could be read as "female horse fastened with wax" or "bite the wax tadpole, " according to Coca-Cola researchers.
Computer coding systems convert most Chinese pictorial characters for printing, but some are so rare that they are never assigned a code.
Sometimes documents print out with Chinese-like characters instead of the real thing (and sadly, they still make as much as sense as the original).
The advertisements associate Western technology with Chinese traditional fortune telling characters called chaizi.
At the park's opening on Sept. 12, 2005, Iger stood grinning for a photo op and was flanked by a motley crew of costumed Disney characters and Chinese dragons.
As for the the technological differences between Twitter and the Weibos, Lee believes the Weibos are more efficient because 140 characters in Chinese can contain five times more information than in English.
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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