Sentence examples for common in Chinese from inspiring English sources

Homophones are so common in Chinese that many different words would be spelled the same.

"This kind of mistreatment is very common in Chinese zoos," she said in a telephone interview.

Battle scenes are choreographed into precise dance patterns, but the acrobatic movements common in Chinese opera are seldom seen.

It appeared to have played an important part in the court's decision not to hand down an immediate death sentence common in Chinese murder cases, which often lead to summary execution by a pistol shot to the head.

IN RECENT years the sight of historic neighbourhoods, their houses often a century or more old, reduced to rubble to make way for grim new structures has been tragically common in Chinese cities.

Calls for more democracy are common in Chinese politics, but they almost always refer to improving the party's decision-making bureaucracy and making its lower-ranking officials more accountable rather than promoting a broader conception of individual freedom or political competition.

But Ken says it's a mistake to read Chinese SF in this way; if there's one common theme in Chinese SF, it is "imbalance".

The man was arrested, but received much sympathy online.Groups of people, often older women, dancing in public, are an increasingly common sight in Chinese cities.

He would not, however, need to look up the word mosh: a common rendering in Chinese is kuangwu, meaning "wild dancing", which sounds suspicious enough.

Although it is common practice in Chinese prisons to make people sit still for long periods, it was much more intensely enforced with these prisoners, so even slumping or closing their eyes could prompt a rebuke or threat.

Workers also complained that they were not allowed to speak while working — a common requirement in Chinese factories — and that they had to obtain passes before going to the bathroom.