yat
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- noun
- Archaic
- While Sun Yat-sen argued that cosmopolitanism would follow from nationalism in China, both his nationalism and that of the Chinese Communist leaders (except Mao) were born out of their cosmopolitanism.
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The letter yat was used in the early Cyrillic alphabet to represent a specific sound.
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In Old Church Slavonic, the yat character was essential for proper pronunciation.
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Chen's government is continuing Sun Yat-sen's philosophy of education, based on his "Three Principles of the People."
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In fact, while Kang was in North America, Liang and the revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen considered combining forces.
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Upon his return to China, Chiang informed Dr. Sun Yat-sen that communism was alien to Chinese thinking, culture, and tradition.
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Chiang used the political philosophy of Sun Yat-sen, founder of the Republic of China in 1911, as the foundation for the new education in Taiwan.
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Sun Yat-sen's philosophy of education involved the "Three Principles of the People," which were nationalism, democracy, and social well-being (Ministry of Education 1976).
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The prints were first exhibited in the National Gallery of the Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Taipei in March 2002, after the opening ceremony on March 22.
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The first is strong leadership under Chiang Kai-shek, who had been China's leader since the death of Sun Yat-sen in 1925.
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" General education was based on Sun Yat-sen's teaching about the eight national moral virtues: loyalty, filial piety, kindness, love, faith, righteousness, harmony, and peace."
Academic text (2003)
Surface Forms
Etymology
Yat was the name of an old Slavic letter used in Church books and early Cyrillic writing; the name comes from the old Slavic word jatĭ for a special 'vowel sound'. So yat now means that old, now-obsolete letter.