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  • And this is important to me because I do not know the characters in Romance of the Three Kingdoms very well -- I didn't grow up hearing these stories the way some of you did -- so if I run into a place where it says Cho where it should say Ch'u, I will not be able to spot it.

    Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway alecaustin 2008

  • The degree to which dialect difference played a major role I don't know; standard Ch'u dialect was probably different than standard northern dialect, though neither was the same as the colloquial language.

    languagehat.com: MICRONESIAN ORTHOGRAPHY. 2004

  • Empress Ch'u (324-384), consort of K'ang, built for her a convent named Increasing Joy in T'ung-kung Lane in Chien-k'ang, the capital of Chin. 68 Seng-chi took up residence there, and more than a hundred disciples came to her.

    Lives of the Nuns 1972

  • The Hsiang stream will recede, the Ch'u clouds onward fly!

    Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao

  • Chih, the Great Music-master, went to Ch'i; Kan, the conductor at the second meal, went to Ch'u; Liao, the conductor at the third meal, went to Ts'ai; Chüeh, the conductor at the fourth meal, went to Ch'in.

    The Sayings Of Confucius 551 BC-479 BC Confucius

  • _Kan_, xviii. 9, music-master of Lu, went to Ch'u.

    The Sayings Of Confucius 551 BC-479 BC Confucius

  • _Tzu-wen_, v. 18, chief minister of Ch'u, his characteristics.

    The Sayings Of Confucius 551 BC-479 BC Confucius

  • Mo Yü promptly took up the bar of a door; while Sao Hung and Ch'u

    Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao

  • _Tzu-hsi_, xiv. 10, chief minister to the state of Ch'u.

    The Sayings Of Confucius 551 BC-479 BC Confucius

  • _Chieh-yü_, xviii. 5, a famous man of Ch'u, who, disapproving of his king's conduct, supported himself by husbandry, and feigned madness in order to escape being forced into the king's service.

    The Sayings Of Confucius 551 BC-479 BC Confucius

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