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Preliminary1 Flashcards

1
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Formation of initials, finals and tones

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Syllables

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2
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Initials/Consonants

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21

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3
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Final/Vowels

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16

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4
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Tones

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4

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5
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21

A 
b
p
m
f
d
t
n
l
g
k
h
j
q
x
zh
ch
sh
r
z
c
S
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16

A 
a
o
e
ie 
ai
ei
ao
ou 
an
en
ang
eng
er
i
u
ü
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7
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Tones

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1st
2nd
3rd
4th

Neutral

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-

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1st

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/

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2nd

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v

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3rd

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\

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4th

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12
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Highest and longest

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1st tone

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13
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Lowest

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3rd

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14
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Mmmmm….

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1st

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15
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What?

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2nd

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16
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Uhhhhh…

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3rd

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17
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No!

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4th

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18
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Happy Birthday

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Zhu ni SHENG RI kuai le

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19
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Merry Christmas

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Zhu ni SHENG DAN kuai le

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20
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Happy new year

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Zhu ni XIN NIAN kuai le

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21
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Congratulations

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Gong xi

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22
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Have a prosperous new year!

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Gong xi fa cai

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23
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Congrats on your graduation

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Gong xi ni bi ye

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24
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Congrats on your engagement

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Gong xi ni men ding hun

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25
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I (ako)

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Wo

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26
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You (Ikaw)

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Ni

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27
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He/She/It (siya)

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Ta

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28
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We (kami)

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woMEN

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29
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You (plural) (kayo)

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niMEN

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30
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They (sila)

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taMEN

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31
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Mine

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woDE

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32
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Yours

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niDE

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33
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His or hers

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taDE

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34
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Theirs

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taMenDe

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35
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Ours

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WoMenDe

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36
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Yours (plural)

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NiMenDe

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37
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Evolution of Chinese Script

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Primitive stage
Archaic Stage
Neo-archaic Stage
Contemporary stage

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38
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Pictograph

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Primitive stage

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39
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Ideograph

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Archaic stage

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40
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Determinative phonetic character

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Neo-archaic stage

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41
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Kai shu (standard script)

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Contemporary stage

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42
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1950s PRC Simplified

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2000 odd Chinese characters

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43
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Female

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-

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44
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Child

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-

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45
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Written character

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-

46
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House

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-

47
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Introducing self

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Nin gui xing 
wo xing 
ni jiao shemme ming zi 
wo jiao \_\_\_ wo shi xue suing
ren shi ni hen gao xing 
Xie xie
48
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Surname

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Gui xing

49
Q

You call what name

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Ni jiao shemme ming zi

50
Q

Student

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Xue shung

51
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Glad to meet you

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Ren shi ni hen gao xing

52
Q

Couple

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Fu fu

53
Q

Map

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Di tu

54
Q

Service

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Fu wu

55
Q

Auntie

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A yi

56
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Hair

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Tou fa

57
Q

Grandma

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Nai nai

58
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Clothes

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Yi fu

59
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Younger sister

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Mei mei

60
Q

Chinese characters

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Left to right
Top to bottom
Partial enclosure
All around enclosure

61
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B

A

P

62
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D

A

T

63
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G

A

K

64
Q

F

A

H

65
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An

A

Ang

66
Q

En

A

Eng

67
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U

A

U

68
Q

In

A

Ing

69
Q

In

A

In

70
Q

Ian

A

Iang

71
Q

Ian

A

Uan

72
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Ie

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Ue

73
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J

A

Zh

74
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Q

A

Ch

75
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X

A

Sh

76
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R

A

L

77
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Er

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R

78
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Zh

A

Ch

Sh

79
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C

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Ch

80
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S

A

Sh

81
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Z

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Zh

82
Q

Congratulations on your marriage?

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Gong xi ni men Jie hun

83
Q

I’m also fine

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Wo ye hen hao

84
Q

To learn how to read or to speak Mandarin, it is important to be familiar with its __

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pronunciation

85
Q

Some words or syllables have no tones as an exception; they are pronounced very lightly

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Neutral tones

86
Q

Flat high pitch

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1st

87
Q

Quick-rising pitch, from middle to high pitch

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2nd

88
Q

Dipping then rising pitch, from middle-low to middle-high pitch

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3rd

89
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Falling pitch, from high to low pitch

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4th

90
Q

In the late ___, a system using the Latin alphabet called __ was developed in China

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1950s

Pinyin

91
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It was a system that alphabetized the writing of Chinese characters by representing the spoken sounds of these characters

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Pinyin

92
Q

It was used to spell Chinese words in Western language newspapers and magazines or in Chinese language textbooks for foreigners

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Pinyin

93
Q

It stands for Chinese sounds which are quite different from English Sounds

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Pinyin letters

94
Q

It usually consists of a consonant followed by a vowel

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Chinese graphs

95
Q

A minister

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Cang ji

96
Q

Evolved from the simple pictures of every day life

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Pictographs

97
Q

Each character has only one syllable and conveys a complete idea

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Pictographs

98
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Earliest stage at which pictographs originated form sheet pictures of objects

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Primitive stage

99
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Stage which covers of periods of emergence to the completion of indirect symbols

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Archaic stage

100
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Period where it it finally completed its formal evolution

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Neo-archaic

101
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Stage of stability, which is still the normal script from and the basis of printing form used today

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Contemporary stage

102
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Basic strokes

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24

103
Q

Arrangement of words in a sentence thus become an important means in expressing various relations in grammar

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Word order

104
Q

It lacks inflectional endings used by other languages to express tenses, genre, number and case

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Chinese language

105
Q

Population

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1.3 Bullion

106
Q

Class is over

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Xia ke

107
Q

Character writing method which refers to the form and shape of things

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Pictographs

108
Q

Who invented the Chinese script

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Emperor Huang Di

109
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Stage of Chinese script wherein the structural evolution has reached the stage of perfection

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Neo-archaic

110
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Aspirated

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P

111
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Non-aspirated

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G

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