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45-504: Huaiyin may refer to: Huai'an ( 淮阴 ), named Huaiyin before 2001, a prefecture-level city in Jiangsu, People's Republic of China Huaiyin District, Huai'an ( 淮阴区 ), Jiangsu, People's Republic of China Huaiyin District, Jinan ( 槐荫区 ), Shandong, People's Republic of China Chinese frigate Huaiyin (513) , 1977-2013 Topics referred to by

90-503: A certain extent in South Korea , remain virtually identical to traditional characters, with variations between the two forms largely stylistic. There has historically been a debate on traditional and simplified Chinese characters . Because the simplifications are fairly systematic, it is possible to convert computer-encoded characters between the two sets, with the main issue being ambiguities in simplified representations resulting from

135-703: A prominent and early Chinese Communist leader who served as premier of the PRC from 1949 until his death in 1976. Huai'an is the atonal pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of the Chinese name 淮安 ( Huái'ān ), the name of the River Huai and the Chinese word for "peaceful" or "pacified". The apostrophe is necessary because the second character begins with a vowel and pinyin generally avoids hyphens. The same name

180-850: Is 産 (also the accepted form in Japan and Korea), while in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan the accepted form is 產 (also the accepted form in Vietnamese chữ Nôm ). The PRC tends to print material intended for people in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, and overseas Chinese in traditional characters. For example, versions of the People's Daily are printed in traditional characters, and both People's Daily and Xinhua have traditional character versions of their website available, using Big5 encoding. Mainland companies selling products in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan use traditional characters in order to communicate with consumers;

225-789: Is a football stadium with a capacity of 30,000. Huai'an is served by the Xinyi-Changxing railway , which has a station in Huaiyin District. Being at the intersection of the Grand Canal and Huai River Huai'an is an important inland port . The city is also served by nearby Huai'an Lianshui International Airport . Currently the airport is served by China Eastern Airlines, which offers flights to Beijing-Capital, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Shanghai-Hongqiao, Shanghai-Pudong, Wenzhou, Wuhan, Xiamen, and Xi'an. Several other airlines offer domestic flights to cities such as Nanning and Zhengzhou. The airport

270-520: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Huai%27an Long an important regional center, Huai'an lies on and is named for the Huai River , the historical boundary between Northern and Southern Chinese culture . Once much closer to the East China Sea , it now lies in the middle of Jianghuai , the vast alluvial plain created by silt from

315-520: Is known as " Jianghuai ", referring to its position between the Huai River and the Yangtze , long known poetically in China as simply "The River" ( 江 , Jiāng ). The local dialect is a form of Jianghuai or Lower Yangtze Mandarin . Similarly, the local cuisine is Jianghuai or Huaiyang cuisine , historically considered one of the four chief styles of true Chinese cooking . The Huai'an City Sports Stadium

360-475: Is located 22 km (14 mi) from central Huai'an in Lianshui county. Public transportation includes a tram system that connects the city center with the southeastern side of the city. Huai'an is twinned with: Traditional characters Traditional Chinese characters are a standard set of Chinese character forms used to write Chinese languages . In Taiwan , the set of traditional characters

405-519: Is located in Xuyi . Now part of Huai'an, the area around it was administered as the separate Sizhou Prefecture during the Yuan , when it was the home of the family of the future Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang. Although his family moved to Fengyang in present-day Anhui before his birth, he erected a large mausoleum in honor of his grandfather, great-grandfather, and great-great-grandfather after his establishment of

450-541: Is regulated by the Ministry of Education and standardized in the Standard Form of National Characters . These forms were predominant in written Chinese until the middle of the 20th century, when various countries that use Chinese characters began standardizing simplified sets of characters, often with characters that existed before as well-known variants of the predominant forms. Simplified characters as codified by

495-483: The Chinese Commercial News , World News , and United Daily News all use traditional characters, as do some Hong Kong–based magazines such as Yazhou Zhoukan . The Philippine Chinese Daily uses simplified characters. DVDs are usually subtitled using traditional characters, influenced by media from Taiwan as well as by the two countries sharing the same DVD region , 3. With most having immigrated to

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540-628: The Chinese Civil War , it fell to the Communist army in December 1948. On 21 April 1949, the area was reorganized as Huaiyin District and divided into the 10 counties of Guanyun, Huaiyin, Huaibao (western Huai'an and Baoyin with its seat at Chahe), Lianshui, Pisui (southern Pixian and northern Suining with its seat at Tushan), Shuyang, Siyang, Suining, Suqian, and Xin'an (parts of Shuyang and Suqian with its seat at Xin'an). On 12 May 1950, Huaibao County

585-614: The Ming . The site's was entirely submerged—along with the entire city of Sizhou—in 1680. It did not reappear above water until the early 1960s. The original Qing Yan Garden was first built during the reign of the Kangxi Emperor of the Qing . The area was occupied by the Japanese army during World War II and administered as part of Wang Jingwei 's puppet regime . During the closing phases of

630-759: The People's Republic of China are predominantly used in mainland China , Malaysia, and Singapore. "Traditional" as such is a retronym applied to non-simplified character sets in the wake of widespread use of simplified characters. Traditional characters are commonly used in Taiwan , Hong Kong , and Macau , as well as in most overseas Chinese communities outside of Southeast Asia. As for non-Chinese languages written using Chinese characters, Japanese kanji include many simplified characters known as shinjitai standardized after World War II, sometimes distinct from their simplified Chinese counterparts . Korean hanja , still used to

675-622: The Shanghainese -language character U+20C8E 𠲎 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-20C8E —a composition of 伐 with the ⼝   'MOUTH' radical—used instead of the Standard Chinese 嗎 ; 吗 . Typefaces often use the initialism TC to signify the use of traditional Chinese characters, as well as SC for simplified Chinese characters . In addition, the Noto, Italy family of typefaces, for example, also provides separate fonts for

720-511: The Si River and begin flowing into the lower reaches of the Huai. The massive amounts of silt greatly expanded the farmland to the east of Huai'an but also greatly expanded Hongze Lake and caused repeated and disastrous floods despite centuries of attempts at river management by Pan Jixun and similar viceroys , often based within modern Huai'an. The Ming Dynasty Ancestral Tomb ( 明祖陵 , Míngzǔlíng )

765-458: The alluvial Jianghuai Plain . The area is very flat with only a few notable hills in Xuyi County . The highest altitude in the municipality is 200 meters (660 ft). The area is notable for its large number of lakes, rivers, and canals. The Grand Canal connects with the Huai in the city. Hongze Lake , the fourth-largest freshwater lake in China , is southwest of the urban districts. Towards

810-646: The flood control efforts of Yu the Great to the Huai. Under the Zhou , the area became an important agricultural center contested by the petty kingdoms of the Spring and Autumn period . In 486   BC, the hegemon Fuchai of Wu completed the Han or Hangou Canal ( t 邗溝 , s 邗沟 , Hángōu ), connecting his center of power at Suzhou near the Yangtze Delta with

855-824: The Huai River at Huai'an to ease his supply lines in conflicts against Qi . Increasing in commercial and strategic importance, the town also became a waypoint on the Qian and Shan Roads. During the Warring States period , the area was held in turn by Wu, Yue , and Chu before being conquered by Shi Huangdi of Qin . Under the Qin , the area of present-day Huai'an was administered as the counties or districts of Huaiyin (with its seat at present-day Matou in Huaiyin ), Xuyi, and Dongyang (with its seat at present-day Maba in Xuyi ). Its people joined

900-628: The Huai and from the Yellow River , which flowed nearby for centuries prior to the massive floods in the mid-19th century which returned it to its old course north of Shandong . Huai'an is known as the birthplace of Han Xin , a famed general who helped found the Han dynasty and overwhelm Xiang Yu in Chu-han contention ; Wu Cheng'en (1500–1582), the Ming author of Journey to the West ; and Zhou Enlai (1898–1976),

945-547: The People's Republic of China, traditional Chinese characters are standardised according to the Table of Comparison between Standard, Traditional and Variant Chinese Characters . Dictionaries published in mainland China generally show both simplified and their traditional counterparts. There are differences between the accepted traditional forms in mainland China and elsewhere, for example the accepted traditional form of 产 in mainland China

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990-521: The United States during the second half of the 19th century, Chinese Americans have long used traditional characters. When not providing both, US public notices and signs in Chinese are generally written in traditional characters, more often than in simplified characters. In the past, traditional Chinese was most often encoded on computers using the Big5 standard, which favored traditional characters. However,

1035-627: The Xian'an Administrative Office, which shortly became the separate Guannan County. In 1958, Qingjiang absorbed the surrounding more rural Huaiyin County but was renamed Huaiyin City. In 1964, Huaiyin County was again separated but kept its seat in the urban area, which again became Qingjiang. In 1966, Xuyi County was transferred to Luhe District. In 1970, Huaiyin District became the Huaiyin Region. The next year, Xuyi

1080-406: The city's administration while the last—Guanyun County—was placed under Lianyungang. In December 1987, Huai'an and Suqian Counties were promoted to county-level cities. In 1996, the county-level city of Suqian was promoted to prefecture-level, taking Sihong, Siyang, and Shuyang Counties along with it. Guannan County was separately placed under the administration of Lianyungang. On 21 December 2000,

1125-571: The cradle of early Chinese civilization on the Wei and Yellow Rivers . Modern Chinese archaeology has found remains from Neolithic civilizations in the area as far back as the 4th millennium   BC. The most famous of these is the Qinglianggang culture ( 青莲岗文化 ). Traditional Chinese historiography considered the area part of the Dongyi or "Eastern Barbarians ", but Chinese myth sometimes extended

1170-565: The first 30- li section of the Gaojia Dike ( 高家堰 , Gāojiāyàn ) to minimize damage from flooding along the Huai. He also expanded the Hangou Canal westward and combined the small Fuling lakes into a single Pofu Pond to assist with irrigation . Under the Sui , the Hangou Canal was expanded north and south to establish the Grand Canal , increasing traffic and trade through the city. Emperor Yang

1215-493: The inverse is equally true as well. In digital media, many cultural phenomena imported from Hong Kong and Taiwan into mainland China, such as music videos, karaoke videos, subtitled movies, and subtitled dramas, use traditional Chinese characters. In Hong Kong and Macau , traditional characters were retained during the colonial period, while the mainland adopted simplified characters. Simplified characters are contemporaneously used to accommodate immigrants and tourists, often from

1260-725: The mainland. The increasing use of simplified characters has led to concern among residents regarding protecting what they see as their local heritage. Taiwan has never adopted simplified characters. The use of simplified characters in government documents and educational settings is discouraged by the government of Taiwan. Nevertheless, with sufficient context simplified characters are likely to be successfully read by those used to traditional characters, especially given some previous exposure. Many simplified characters were previously variants that had long been in some use, with systematic stroke simplifications used in folk handwriting since antiquity. Traditional characters were recognized as

1305-682: The majority of Chinese text in mainland China are simplified characters , there is no legislation prohibiting the use of traditional Chinese characters, and often traditional Chinese characters remain in use for stylistic and commercial purposes, such as in shopfront displays and advertising. Traditional Chinese characters remain ubiquitous on buildings that predate the promulgation of the current simplification scheme, such as former government buildings, religious buildings, educational institutions, and historical monuments. Traditional Chinese characters continue to be used for ceremonial, cultural, scholarly/academic research, and artistic/decorative purposes. In

1350-975: The merging of previously distinct character forms. Many Chinese online newspapers allow users to switch between these character sets. Traditional characters are known by different names throughout the Chinese-speaking world. The government of Taiwan officially refers to traditional Chinese characters as 正體字 ; 正体字 ; zhèngtǐzì ; 'orthodox characters'. This term is also used outside Taiwan to distinguish standard characters, including both simplified, and traditional, from other variants and idiomatic characters . Users of traditional characters elsewhere, as well as those using simplified characters, call traditional characters 繁體字 ; 繁体字 ; fántǐzì ; 'complex characters', 老字 ; lǎozì ; 'old characters', or 全體字 ; 全体字 ; quántǐzì ; 'full characters' to distinguish them from simplified characters. Some argue that since traditional characters are often

1395-665: The official script in Singapore until 1969, when the government officially adopted Simplified characters. Traditional characters still are widely used in contexts such as in baby and corporation names, advertisements, decorations, official documents and in newspapers. The Chinese Filipino community continues to be one of the most conservative in Southeast Asia regarding simplification. Although major public universities teach in simplified characters, many well-established Chinese schools still use traditional characters. Publications such as

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1440-700: The original standard forms, they should not be called 'complex'. Conversely, there is a common objection to the description of traditional characters as 'standard', due to them not being used by a large population of Chinese speakers. Additionally, as the process of Chinese character creation often made many characters more elaborate over time, there is sometimes a hesitation to characterize them as 'traditional'. Some people refer to traditional characters as 'proper characters' ( 正字 ; zhèngzì or 正寫 ; zhèngxiě ) and to simplified characters as 簡筆字 ; 简笔字 ; jiǎnbǐzì ; 'simplified-stroke characters' or 減筆字 ; 减笔字 ; jiǎnbǐzì ; 'reduced-stroke characters', as

1485-412: The prefecture-level city of Huaiyin was renamed Huai'an. The Huaiyin County and the county-level Huai'an City became Huaiyin and Huai'an Districts and the various districts' and counties' borders slightly adjusted in different ways. In October 2016, Qinghe and Qingpu reunited to form the city's current Qingjiangpu District . The people of Huai'an are generally ethnically Han Chinese . The local culture

1530-599: The rebels who overthrew the Qin , prominently including Han Xin . Under the Han , the counties of Huaipu (with its seat in western Lianshui ), Sheyang (with its seat in southeastern Huai'an ), and Fulin (with its seat now under the waters of Hongze Lake ) were added. In Jian'an 5 ( c.  200 ), near the beginning of the Three Kingdoms period , the Guangling commander Chen Deng —then subordinate to Lü Bu —constructed

1575-497: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Huaiyin . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Huaiyin&oldid=1025033389 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Articles containing Chinese-language text Short description

1620-600: The same year, Pisui, Suining, and Xinyi Counties were placed under the administration of Xuzhou District . Qingjiang was separately elevated to a prefecture-level city despite still being subordinate to Huaiyin District. Shortly thereafter, the district added Huai'an County from Yancheng, Sihong County from Suxian, and Xuyi County from Chuxian District in Anhui. In 1956, Hongze County was established from parts of Huaiyin, Sihong, and Xuyi Counties, with its seat at Gaoliangjian. In 1957, parts of Guanyun and Lianshui Counties were organized as

1665-825: The south, there are also several smaller lakes. Huai'an is situated almost directly south of Lianyungang , southeast of Suqian , northwest of Yancheng , and north of Yangzhou and Nanjing in Jiangsu and northeast of Chuzhou in Anhui . The climate in Huai'an is mild, generally warm and temperate. Winters are much drier than summers. Its Köppen climate classification is Cwa: humid subtropical climate with dry winters. The prefecture-level city of Huai'an administers 7 county-level divisions , including 4 urban districts and 3 more rural counties . These are further divided into 127 township-level divisions , including 84 towns , 33 townships , and 10 subdistricts . Huai'an lies southeast of

1710-577: The traditional character set used in Taiwan ( TC ) and the set used in Hong Kong ( HK ). Most Chinese-language webpages now use Unicode for their text. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recommends the use of the language tag zh-Hant to specify webpage content written with traditional characters. In the Japanese writing system , kyujitai are traditional forms, which were simplified to create shinjitai for standardized Japanese use following World War II. Kyūjitai are mostly congruent with

1755-970: The traditional characters in Chinese, save for minor stylistic variation. Characters that are not included in the jōyō kanji list are generally recommended to be printed in their traditional forms, with a few exceptions. Additionally, there are kokuji , which are kanji wholly created in Japan, rather than originally being borrowed from China. In the Korean writing system , hanja —replaced almost entirely by hangul in South Korea and totally replaced in North Korea —are mostly identical with their traditional counterparts, save minor stylistic variations. As with Japanese, there are autochthonous hanja, known as gukja . Traditional Chinese characters are also used by non-Chinese ethnic groups. The Maniq people living in Thailand and Malaysia use Chinese characters to write

1800-509: The ubiquitous Unicode standard gives equal weight to simplified and traditional Chinese characters, and has become by far the most popular encoding for Chinese-language text. There are various input method editors (IMEs) available for the input of Chinese characters . Many characters, often dialectical variants, are encoded in Unicode but cannot be inputted using certain IMEs, with one example being

1845-526: The words for simplified and reduced are homophonous in Standard Chinese , both pronounced as jiǎn . The modern shapes of traditional Chinese characters first appeared with the emergence of the clerical script during the Han dynasty c.  200 BCE , with the sets of forms and norms more or less stable since the Southern and Northern dynasties period c.  the 5th century . Although

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1890-640: Was also responsible for changing Pofu's name to the present-day Hongze Lake out of his delight at rainfall there, encountered after an inspection tour through drought-afflicted areas. During the Song , Kaifeng 's governor Du Chong ( 杜 充 , Dù Chōng , d.   1141) breached the levees holding back the Yellow River in 1128 as part of the ongoing wars with the Jurchen Jin further north. A series of massive floods, manmade and natural, then caused it to capture

1935-586: Was divided between Huaiyin County, Huai'an County in Yancheng District, and Baoyin County in Yangzhou District. On December 18 of the same year, the urban area of Huaiyin was separately organized as Qingjiang City, which became the seat for the district. Huaiyin District joined Jiangsu upon its reestablishment in January 1953. Xin'an County was renamed Xinyi and the seat of Pisui County was moved to Yunhe. Later

1980-566: Was previously romanized as Huai-an in Wade-Giles . For much of the 20th century, Huai'an was officially known as Huaiyin in pinyin, Huai-yin in Wade-Giles, and Hwaiyin in Postal Map , all romanizing the Chinese name written 淮陰 in traditional characters and 淮阴 in simplified ones , meaning "area on the yin , shady, or south bank of the Huai". Huai'an lies on the Huai River in

2025-544: Was transferred back from the Luhe Region. Luhe also yielded Jinhu County. In 1975, Huaiyin County's administration moved from Qingjiang to Wangyin. In 1983, the Huaiyin Region became the directly administered Huaiyin City, with its urban core losing the separate name Qingjiang and being instead divided into Qinghe and Qingpu Districts . Most of the Huaiyin Region's counties—Guannan, Huai'an, Huaiyin, Hongze, Jinhu, Lianshui, Shuyang, Sihong, Siyang, Suqian, Xuyi—were placed under

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