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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Everywhere, there were also bright blue government-issued tents with the Chinese characters for "disaster relief" printed in white.
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.
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.
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.
It also contains a Chinese-English dictionary and can recognize Chinese characters written with a stylus.
One guide to French food zips through a recipe for baked sea bream with almonds in just 129 Chinese characters.
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.
Hey, they use a different language with characters and it is tough going for Chinese to hit those keys like we do in the West.
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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.
In the previous century, Jesuit missionaries had brought back the first substantial accounts of the Chinese language, and many philosophers were taken with the notion that its characters signified concepts rather than sounds, and that a single ideogram could have the same meaning to people all over East Asia, despite sounding completely different in each tongue.
For many Chinese the very basics of the English language, such as the characters we write with, are new.
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