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Yau (surname)
Yau is a surname. It is a romanisation of multiple surnames in Hong Kong as well as other Cantonese speaking regions, based on different varieties of Chinese, as well as a surname in other cultures. Among respondents to the 2000 United States Census, Yau was the 394th-most common surname among Asian Pacific Americans, and 10,881th-most common overall, with 2,686 bearers (93.9% of whom identified as Asian/Pacific Islander). Cantonese romanisation of 丘 *Shing-Tung Yau (; born 1949), Chinese-born American mathematician *Stephen Shing-Toung Yau (; born 1952), Hong Kong-born American mathematician, brother of Shing-Tung Yau *Alan Yau (; born 1962), Hong Kong-born British restaurateur *Yau Kin Wai (; born 1973), Hong Kong football defender Cantonese romanisation of 邱 * Yau Leung (; 1941–1997), Hong Kong street photographer *Yau Lop Poon (; born 1950), Hong Kong journalist *Edward Yau (; born 1960), Hong Kong government official *Herman Yau (; born 1961), Hong Kong film director ... [...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] |
Mirror (group)
Mirror (commonly stylised as MIRROR) is a Hong Kong Cantopop boy group formed through ViuTV's reality talent show ''Good Night Show - King Maker'' in 2018. The group consists of twelve members: Frankie Chan, Alton Wong, Lokman Yeung, Stanley Yau, Anson Kong, Jer Lau, Ian Chan, Anson Lo, Jeremy Lee, Edan Lui, Keung To, and Tiger Yau. They debuted on 3 November 2018 with the single "In a Second" (一秒間). The group has won numerous accolades since their debut, including a Metro Radio Hit Music Award for Best Group, an Ultimate Song Chart Award for Group of the Year (Bronze), and Group of the Year (Gold) at the inaugural Chill Club Music Awards held by ViuTV. Mirror is considered one of the driving forces in the renewed interest of the Cantopop genre. Their 2020 single "Ignited" won Top Ten Song of the Year at the Ultimate Song Chart Awards and the Chill Club Music Awards. Their 2021 single "Warrior" topped the Ultimate 903 Chart for two weeks, the first song from a group t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinyin
Hanyu Pinyin (), often shortened to just pinyin, is the official romanization system for Standard Mandarin Chinese in China, and to some extent, in Singapore and Malaysia. It is often used to teach Mandarin, normally written in Chinese form, to learners already familiar with the Latin alphabet. The system includes four diacritics denoting tones, but pinyin without tone marks is used to spell Chinese names and words in languages written in the Latin script, and is also used in certain computer input methods to enter Chinese characters. The word ' () literally means "Han language" (i.e. Chinese language), while ' () means "spelled sounds". The pinyin system was developed in the 1950s by a group of Chinese linguists including Zhou Youguang and was based on earlier forms of romanizations of Chinese. It was published by the Chinese Government in 1958 and revised several times. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) adopted pinyin as an international standard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandarin Chinese
Mandarin (; ) is a group of Chinese (Sinitic) dialects that are natively spoken across most of northern and southwestern China. The group includes the Beijing dialect, the basis of the phonology of Standard Chinese, the official language of China. Because Mandarin originated in North China and most Mandarin dialects are found in the north, the group is sometimes referred to as Northern Chinese (). Many varieties of Mandarin, such as those of the Southwest (including Sichuanese) and the Lower Yangtze, are not mutually intelligible with the standard language (or are only partially intelligible). Nevertheless, Mandarin as a group is often placed first in lists of languages by number of native speakers (with nearly one billion). Mandarin is by far the largest of the seven or ten Chinese dialect groups; it is spoken by 70 percent of all Chinese speakers over a large geographical area that stretches from Yunnan in the southwest to Xinjiang in the northwest and Heilongjiang in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gwoyeu Romatzyh
Gwoyeu Romatzyh (), abbreviated GR, is a system for writing Mandarin Chinese in the Latin alphabet. The system was conceived by Yuen Ren Chao and developed by a group of linguists including Chao and Lin Yutang from 1925 to 1926. Chao himself later published influential works in linguistics using GR. In addition a small number of other textbooks and dictionaries in GR were published in Hong Kong and overseas from 1942 to 2000. GR is the better known of the two romanization systems which indicate the four tones of Mandarin by varying the spelling of syllables ("tonal spelling"). These tones are fundamental to the Chinese language; their presence lets speakers discriminate between otherwise identical syllables and words. Other systems indicate the tones with either diacritics (for example Pinyin: ''āi, ái, ǎi'' and ''ài'') or numbers (Wade–Giles: ''ai1, ai2'', etc.). GR spells the four tones of the same vowel, ''ai'', ''air'', ''ae'' and ''ay''. These spellings, which follow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yau Wai-ching
Regine Yau Wai-ching (; born 6 May 1991) is a Hong Kong former politician and former member of the localist group Youngspiration. She was elected to the Legislative Council of Hong Kong as a member for Kowloon West in the 2016 Legislative Council election, but has since been disqualified pursuant to a judgment delivered by the High Court on 15 November 2016. As the youngest female parliament member in the Hong Kong history being elected on the age of 25, she is acclaimed to be a " daughter of Hong Kong" by the Chinese historian and political commentator Zhongjing Liu for her pro-democracy statesmanship and the advocacy for the self-determination of the Hong Kong national identity. Background Yau was born on 6 May 1991 at St Teresa's Hospital in Kowloon City, Hong Kong to a middle-class family. Both her parents were civil servants. Her father was a technical officer in the Hong Kong government. She was educated at Queen Elizabeth School and studied Chinese language at Ling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neo Yau
Neo Yau Hawk-Sau (; born 24 September 1990) is a Hong Kong-based actor. He co-founded a political satire group called "Mocking Jer," which specialised in creative derivative work which satirised local news and government. In 2015, he gained recognition with his performance as the main character Pang Shing-Wa in '' She Remembers, He Forgets''. In 2020, he co-founded the YouTube channel "Trial & Error" who produces short drama videos. He graduated from Yan Oi Tong Tin Ka Ping Secondary School and studied in the School of film and television in the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts for his tertiary education. Career Yau first came into contact with film as the second assistant director in ''The Boy Who Shouted Teresa'' in 2012. He started his acting career in 2013 by acting in ''Sam Hui Yat'' (The phonetic translation of the Cantonese title, literally meaning ''Three Minus One''). Yau gained fame after the release of'' She Remembers, He Forgets'' in 2015, in which he portrayed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yau Kam Leung
Yau Kam Leung (, born 26 April 1985, in Hong Kong) is a professional football player who played in the Hong Kong First Division League The Hong Kong First Division League () is the second-highest division in the Hong Kong football league system. Established in 1908, it is the third oldest in Asia. The league was formerly the highest division in Hong Kong until the formation o ... for Fourway Rangers. His position is left-back. References External linksHKFA 1985 births Living people Hong Kong men's footballers Metro Gallery FC players Hong Kong First Division League players Men's association football defenders {{HongKong-footy-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yau Nai-hoi
Yau Nai-hoi () is a Hong Kong screenwriter and director. He is best known as a frequent screenwriter for films produced by the independent film, independent Hong Kong production company Milkyway Image, notably films directed by Johnnie To and Wai Ka-Fai. Yau often collaborates with fellow Milkyway Image writers Wai Ka-Fai, Szeto Kam-Yuen, Au Kin-Yee and Yip Tin-Shing. His directorial debut arrived with the 2007 film ''Eye in the Sky (2007 film), Eye in the Sky''. Filmography *''Blind Detective'' (2013) (writer) *''Drug War (film), Drug War'' (2012) (writer) *''Romancing in Thin Air'' (2012) (writer) *''Life Without Principle (film), Life Without Principle'' (2011) (writer) *''Don't Go Breaking My Heart (2011 film), Don't Go Breaking My Heart'' (2011) (writer) *''Tactical Unit – Comrades in Arms'' (2009) (writer) *''Triangle (2007 film), Triangle'' (2007) (writer) *''Eye in the Sky (2007 film), Eye in the Sky'' (2007) (director) (writer) *''Election 2 (a.k.a. Triad Election)' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Yau
Patrick Yau Tat-Chi is a Hong Kong film director and assistant director best known for making independent films for Milkyway Image, the production company owned by Johnnie To and Wai Ka-Fai. Career Yau joined TVB when he was 21 and became Johnnie To's assistant director two years later. He became a television producer for TVB in 1991, but left in 1994 to work for To, as an associate director for his fire-fighting film '' Lifeline''. In 1997, Yau made his directorial debut with his first film, ''The Odd One Dies'' and continued to direct films produced by Milkyway Image, such as ''The Longest Nite ''The Longest Nite'' (, Literal Title: ''Dark Flowers'') is a 1998 Hong Kong crime thriller film directed by Patrick Yau and Johnnie To, starring Lau Ching-wan and Tony Leung Chiu-wai. The film was produced by To and Wai Ka-fai along with their ...'' and '' Expect the Unexpected''. Yau has now returned to his roots, directing television serials for TVB. Filmography Awards and nomi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King-Wai Yau
King-Wai Yau (; born October 27, 1948) is a Chinese-born American neuroscientist and Professor of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. Biography Born in Guangzhou (formerly called Canton), Guangdong, China, he was the sixth of seven children. His family relocated to Hong Kong within months of his birth. His father, a businessman, died when Yau was only five years old. He attended secondary school in Buddhist Wong Fung Ling College and St. Paul's Co-educational College in Hong Kong, before entering University of Hong Kong Faculty of Medicine to study medicine. Not wanting to be a physician, however, he departed for the United States in 1968 after only one year of medical study. He received an A.B. in physics (University Scholar; Phi Beta Kappa) from Princeton in 1971 and a Ph.D. in neurobiology from Harvard in 1975, completing his doctoral thesis under John G. Nicholls, a former student of Bernard Katz. He did postdoctoral work with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carrie Yau
:''This is a Hong Kong name; Tsang is the maiden name and Yau is the married name.'' Carrie Yau Tsang Kar-lai (; ' Tsang; born 4 June 1955) is a former Hong Kong government official. She was graduated from the University of Hong Kong and Somerville College, Oxford and joined the Hong Kong government as an Administrative Officer in 1977. She worked in major policies including security, building and lands, education and manpower, transport, health and food safety in bureaux and departments such as the former Environment Branch, the former Finance Branch, the former New Territories Administration, the former Civil Service Branch, the former City and New Territories Administration, the former Building and Lands Department, the former Security Branch, the former Education and Manpower Branch, the former Transport Branch and the former Chief Secretary's Office. From 1995 to 1997, she was Deputy Secretary for Security. In 1997 she was appointed Director of Administration and in 2000. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
