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The Wenzaobang or Wenzao River (Chinese :蕰藻浜; pinyin :Wēnzǎobāng), often mispronounced as Yunzaobang, is a river in Shanghai, China. It flows from the Wusong River in Jiading District to the Huangpu River in Baoshan District and is 38 kilometres (24 mi) in length. [1]

Chinese language family of languages

Chinese is a group of related, but in many cases not mutually intelligible, language varieties, forming the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. Chinese is spoken by the ethnic Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in China. About 1.2 billion people speak some form of Chinese as their first language.

Hanyu Pinyin, often abbreviated to pinyin, is the official romanization system for Standard Chinese in mainland China and to some extent in Taiwan. It is often used to teach Standard Mandarin Chinese, which is normally written using Chinese characters. The system includes four diacritics denoting tones. Pinyin without tone marks is used to spell Chinese names and words in languages written with the Latin alphabet, and also in certain computer input methods to enter Chinese characters.

Shanghai Municipality in Peoples Republic of China

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