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The top 100 Chinese loanwords in English today

Can one recognise the Chinese words used in English?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 October 2018

Ai Zhong
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On February 17, 2018, the China International Publishing Group (CIPG), an organization under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Central Committee, released a report on the most recognized Chinese words in the English-speaking world. The data for ‘A report on the awareness of Chinese discourse overseas’ (中国话语海外认知度调研报告) were obtained from two resources, i.e. (1) a number of articles selected from 50 mainstream media, and (2) questionnaires distributed in eight English-speaking countries, including the US, the UK, Australia, the Philippines, South Africa, Canada, Singapore, and India. It should be noted that the report only investigates the usage and understanding of Chinese words in their Pinyin forms (China Foreign Languages Publishing Administration, 2018).

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English Today , Volume 35 , Issue 3 , September 2019 , pp. 8 - 15
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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