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  • in the phonetic systems between the source language and Chinese. Generally, Chinese exonyms fall into three categories: Phonetic transcriptions, for...
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    exonyms Afrikaans exonyms Arabic exonyms Azerbaijani exonyms Armenian exonyms Chinese exonyms Japanese exonyms Vietnamese exonyms -onym Emic...
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  • Inglês. Exonyms for cities outside of the East Asian cultural sphere tend to be more phonetically accurate to their endonyms than the English exonyms if the...
    58 KB (1,728 words) - 05:51, 15 July 2024
  • "exonyms" for China are the result of change in romanization of Chinese to modern pinyin, for example "Tientsin" to "Tianjin". Other apparent exonyms are...
    134 KB (2,086 words) - 06:50, 21 July 2024
  • a subtle semantic aspect of transcription into Chinese characters. The Chinese language writes exonyms, like other foreign loanwords, in characters chosen...
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    Nanyang (region) (category Chinese exonyms)
    Nanyang (Chinese: 南洋; pinyin: nán yáng; lit. 'Southern Ocean') is the Chinese term for the warmer and fertile geographical region along the southern coastal...
    29 KB (1,859 words) - 22:55, 7 April 2024
  • exonyms for formerly German places and other places in non-German-speaking areas of the world. Archaic names are in italics. List of German exonyms for...
    33 KB (298 words) - 10:35, 23 June 2024
  • Tianzhu (India) (category Historical Chinese exonyms)
    known to the Chinese: Central, Eastern, Western, Northern, and Southern India. Originally pronounced as l̥induk or *qʰl'iːn tuɡ 天竺 in Old Chinese, it comes...
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    Funan (category Historical Chinese exonyms)
    Funan (Chinese: 扶南; pinyin: Fúnán Hvunân [fuːnɑːn]; Khmer: ហ៊្វូណន, Hvunân [fuːnɑːn]; Vietnamese: Phù Nam, Chữ Hán: 夫南) was the name given by Chinese cartographers...
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    Tuyuhun (category Historical Chinese exonyms)
    Tuyuhun (Chinese: 吐谷渾; LHC: *tʰɑʔ-jok-guənʔ; Wade-Giles: T'u-yühun), also known as Henan (Chinese: 河南) and Azha (Tibetan: ཨ་ཞ་, Wylie: ‘A-zha; Chinese: 阿豺)...
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    from the Chinese point of view, barbarian." Shang dynasty (1600–1046 BC) oracles and bronze inscriptions first recorded specific Chinese exonyms for foreigners...
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    Dayuan (category Historical Chinese exonyms)
    Dayuan (or Tayuan; Chinese: 大宛; pinyin: Dàyuān; lit. 'Great Ionians'; Middle Chinese dâiC-jwɐn < LHC: dɑh-ʔyɑn) is the Chinese exonym for a country that...
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    Chenla (category Historical Chinese exonyms)
    (simplified Chinese: 真腊; traditional Chinese: 真臘; pinyin: Zhēnlà; Wade–Giles: Chen-la; Khmer: ចេនឡា, Chénla [ceːnlaː]; Vietnamese: Chân Lạp) is the Chinese designation...
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    Wa (Japan) (category Historical Chinese exonyms)
    ethnonym of the Japanese people. From c. the 2nd century AD Chinese and Korean scribes used the Chinese character 倭; 'submissive'', 'distant'', 'dwarf' to refer...
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    Yancai (category Historical Chinese exonyms)
    force. According to Chinese sources, Yancai belonged to the northern part of the Silk Route, known as the Northern Route. The Chinese sent embassies to...
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    Ionians (category Articles containing Chinese-language text)
    Dayuan (or Tayuan; Chinese: 大宛; pinyin: Dàyuān; lit. 'Great Ionians'; Middle Chinese dâiC-jwɐn < LHC: dɑh-ʔyɑn) is the Chinese exonym for a country that...
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    Fusang (category Historical Chinese exonyms)
    romanization of a Chinese name referring to various entities in ancient Chinese literature, chiefly a mythical tree or location far east of China. In the Classic...
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    Kangju (category Historical Chinese exonyms)
    Kangju (Chinese: 康居; pinyin: kāngjū; Wade–Giles: K'ang-chü; Eastern Han Chinese: kʰɑŋ-kɨɑ < *khâŋ-ka (c. 140 BCE)) was the Chinese name of a kingdom in...
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    invite comparison with the word barbarian. The Chinese exonyms of various ethnic groups encountered in Chinese history can be rendered into English either...
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    Daxia (category Historical Chinese exonyms)
    Ta-Hsia, or Ta-Hia (Chinese: 大夏; pinyin: Dàxià; literally: 'Great Xia') was apparently the name given in antiquity by the Han Chinese to Tukhara or Tokhara:...
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