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Fangyan Scenic And Historic Area
Fangyan may refer to: *Regional varieties of Chinese () * ''Fangyan'' (book), Han dynasty dictionary by Yang Xiong *Fangyan, Zhejiang Fangyan () is a town under the administration of Yongkang, Zhejiang, China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billio ..., town in Yongkang, Zhejiang, China * Fangyan Formation, geological formation in Zhejiang {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Varieties Of Chinese
Chinese, also known as Sinitic, is a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family consisting of hundreds of local varieties, many of which are not mutually intelligible. Variation is particularly strong in the more mountainous southeast of mainland China. The varieties are typically classified into several groups: Mandarin, Wu, Min, Xiang, Gan, Hakka and Yue, though some varieties remain unclassified. These groups are neither clades nor individual languages defined by mutual intelligibility, but reflect common phonological developments from Middle Chinese. Chinese varieties differ most in their phonology, and to a lesser extent in vocabulary and syntax. Southern varieties tend to have fewer initial consonants than northern and central varieties, but more often preserve the Middle Chinese final consonants. All have phonemic tones, with northern varieties tending to have fewer distinctions than southern ones. Many have tone sandhi, with the most complex patterns in the coastal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fangyan (book)
The ''Fāngyán'' (), compiled by the Han dynasty poet and philosopher Yang Xiong (53 BCE – 18 CE), was the first Chinese dictionary of regionalisms. Translations of this ancient dictionary's title include: 'regional words', 'regional expressions', 'dictionary of local expressions', and 'regional spoken words'. Yang Xiong's ''Fangyan'' is considered the "most significant lexicographic work" of the Western Han. His dictionary's preface explains how he spent 27 years amassing and collating the dictionary. Yang collected regionalisms from many sources, particularly the ''yóuxuān'' ( 'light carriage') surveys, which were a Zhou and Qin dynasty tradition of annually sending imperial emissaries into the countryside to gather folk songs and popular sayings, which recorded localisms from all over China and as far north as Korea. The ''Fangyans full title is ''Yóuxuān shǐzhě juédài yǔ shì biéguó fāngyán'' (, 'Local expressions of other countries in times immemorial expla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fangyan, Zhejiang
Fangyan () is a town under the administration of Yongkang, Zhejiang, China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and .... , it administers the following two residential neighborhoods and 24 villages: Neighborhoods *Fangyan *Paixi () Villages *Chenglu Village () *Yanhou Village () *Yanshang Village () *Yanxia Village () *Xi Village () *Dayuan Village () *Houshantou Village () *Changkeng Village () *Guzhufan Village () *Xianyan Village () *Liangtoumen Village () *Paixi Village () *Xianpen Village () *Tongkeng Village () *Xianghuli Village () *Dusong Village () *Xiazhai Village () *Wenlou Village () *Shangliye Village () *Chengliwang Village () *Jinzhu Village () *Houqian Village () *Xiangmotang Village () *Sanchuan Village () References Towns of Jinhua Yongkang, Zhejiang [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
