The comparison structure is identical in Tai languages (the group of which Thai forms part), where gwa replaces guo, but it is ta bi wo hao in Mandarin, which translates literally as "he comparison I good".
September 16, 1859 China June 6, 1916 Yuan Shikai, Wade-Giles romanization Yüan Shih-k'ai Shih-k'ai name (zi) Weiting, literary name (hao) Rong'an (born Sept. 16, 1859, Henan provincourtesya—died Juname, 1916) Chinese army leader and reformist minister in the twilight of the Qing dynasty (until 1911) and then first president of the Republic of China (1912–16).
Wang Anshi, Wade-Giles romanization Wang An-shih, courtesy name (zi) Jiefu, literary name (hao) Banshan (born 1021, Linchuan, Jiangxi province, China died 1086, Jiangning [now Nanjing], Jiangsu province), Chinese poet and prose writer, best known as a governmental reformer who implemented his unconventional idealism through the "New Laws," or "New Policies," of 1069 76.
Adjectives can be defined as qualitative verbs (hao 'to be good') or stative verbs (bing 'to be sick').
December 3, 1877 Haining, China June 2, 1927 Beijing, China Wang Guowei, Wade-Giles romanization Wang Kuo-wei, original name Wang Guozhen, courtesy name (zi) Jing'an, literary name (hao) Guantang (born December 3, 1877, Haining, Zhejiang province, China died June 2 , 1927 Beijing) Chinese scholar, historian, literary critic, and poet known for his Western approach to Chinese history.
1045 Xiushui, China 1105 Yishan, China Huang Tingjian, Wade-Giles romanization Huang T'ing-chien T'ing-chiename (zi) Luzhi, literary name (hao) Shangu Daoren (courtesy "The Daoist Shaname) (born 1045, Fengning [now Xiushui], Jiangxi province, China—died 1105, Yiziou [now Yishan], Guangxi), Chinese poet and caLuzhiapher esteemed as the founder of the Jiangxi schooliterarytry.
The tradition of recording events by referring to the king's regnal year continued until 163 bc, when a new system, nien-hao ("reign-period title"), was introduced by Emperor Han Wen Ti of the Former Han dynasty (206 bc ad 8).
A typical date in the nien-hao system might read, "the third year of the Wan-li reign period" (Wan-li san nien).
When in 1911 the first republic was founded, the solar year was officially adopted, but successive governments kept the nien-hao tradition by referring any date to the number of years since the establishment of the republic e.g., 1948 was chronicled "the 37th year of the republic".
The inscription on remarkable copper images of Buddha cast just after the period of Prince Shōtoku's regency (ad 593 621) bears a nengō (nien-hao, or reign-year title), although not a strictly authorized one.
Thereafter, every emperor proclaimed a new nien-hao for his reign at the beginning of the year following his accession (sometimes an emperor redesignated his nien-hao on special occasions during his reign).
