Sentence examples for composed of two characters from inspiring English sources

The authorities would do well to remember that the word crisis, when written in Mandarin Chinese, is composed of two characters: one represents danger, the other opportunity.

Whenever I think of a crisis, I remember John F. Kennedy's wise words, "When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters - one represents change and the other represents opportunity".

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters.

The Japanese word for ethics is rinri, which is composed of two characters, rin and ri.

Watsuji usually writes of ningen sonzai, and sonzai (existence) is composed of two characters, son (which means to preserve, to sustain over time), and zai (to stay in place, and in this case, to persevere in one's relationships).

Ningen is composed of two characters, nin, meaning 'person' or 'human being,' and gen, meaning 'space' or 'between.' He cautions that it is imperative to recognize that a human being is not just an individual, but is also a member of many social groupings.

The joke is that the Chinese word for hand dryer is composed of three characters, "hong shou ji" (I am using pinyin, a system of Romanization used in China, to "write" the characters in the English alphabet).

For the special endings in The King of Fighters '97, three video games journals, Gamest, Famitsu and Neo Geo Freak, had to create a team composed of three characters from the game so that they would be featured in an image after passing the arcade mode.

As an example, the pseudohomophone 疑凍 yi2dong4 is composed of two Chinese characters 疑 yi2 'to question' and 凍 dong4 'to freeze', which are homophonic to the characters of an existing verb 移動 yi2dong4 'to move'.

In television interviews, at lectures and in her books she would explain that the word was composed of two Japanese characters, sha meaning entertainer and gei meaning artistic.

This character was composed of two other Chinese characters— three mouths over the mountain —taken together.