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 xiě fǎ style of writing (literary style) / way of writing a character / spelling
 pīn zì to spell / spelling
 pīn fǎ spelling / orthography
 sī pèi lín Spelling (e.g. Spelling Entertainment Group)
 yī one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire / whole / all / throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
 yāo youngest / most junior / tiny / one (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers, esp. on telephone or in military) / one or ace on dice or dominoes / variant of 吆[yao1], to shout
 luó bù to display / to spread out / to distribute / old spelling of 盧布|卢布[lu2 bu4], ruble
 dòng cave / hole / zero (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers) / CL:個|个[ge4]
 yāo youngest / most junior / tiny / one (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers, esp. on telephone or in military) / one or ace on dice or dominoes / variant of 吆[yao1], to shout
 Qiáo zhì chéng Georgetown / (the spelling 喬治敦|乔治敦 / is more common)
 Lì Mǎ dòu Matteo Ricci (1552-1610), Jesuit missionary and translator in Ming China / erroneous spelling of 利瑪竇|利玛窦
 Wú qí Wuqi town and county, Shaanxi / old spelling of Wuqi 吳起|吴起[Wu2 qi3]
 Wú qí xiàn Wuqi county, Shaanxi / old spelling of 吳起縣|吴起县[Wu2 qi3 xian4]
 Bǐ dé gé lè Petrograd, variant spelling of 彼得堡[Bi3 de2 bao3], Saint Petersburg
 Tuō kè tuō Togtoh county, Mongolian Togtox khoshuu, in Hohhot 呼和浩特[Hu1 he2 hao4 te4], Inner Mongolia / alternative spelling of 脫脫|脱脱[Tuo1 tuo1], Yuan dynasty politician Toktoghan (1314-1355)
 pīn xiě cuò wù spelling mistake / written error
 pīn dú to pronounce a word after mentally processing its spelling / (phonics) blending
 xīn shì pīn fǎ new spelling (linguistics)
 Héng bīn Japanese spelling of Yokohama (Chinese spelling 橫濱|横滨[Heng2 bin1])
 yì xíng cí variant spelling of the same Chinese word, e.g. 筆劃|笔划[bi3 hua4] and 筆畫|笔画[bi3 hua4] / exact synonym and homonym written with different characters
 zhuì zì kè běn spelling book
 háo yóu oyster sauce / correct spelling 蠔油|蚝油
 Shǒu ěr Shì Seoul Metropolitan City, capital of South Korea (Chinese spelling adopted in 2005)
 Jīn Zhèng yín former spelling of Kim Jong-un 金正恩[Jin1 Zheng4 en1]
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