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John Doe > Informal names for unknown or unspecified persons in various countries/regions (Pinyin: Wúmíng Shì, literally "Mr./Ms. No Name"); (Pinyin: Mǒu Mǒu, literally "so-and-so"); (using the List of common Chinese surnames with numbers, etc.) (Pinyin: Zhào Dà, literally "Zhao Big"), (Pinyin: Qián Èr, "Qian 2"), (Pinyin: Sūn Sān, "Sun 3"), (Pinyin: Zhāng Sān, "Zhang 3"), (Pinyin: Lǐ Sì, "Li 4"), (Pinyin: Wáng Wǔ, "Wang 5"), ...; (using the Heavenly Stems) (Pinyin: Mǒu Jiǎ, literally "a certain A"), (Pinyin: Mǒu Yǐ, "a certain B"), (Pinyin: Mǒu Bǐng, "a certain C"), ...; ,... (Yamada Taro, a common male name), (Yamada Hanako, a common female name), (Nanashi-no-Gombei, literally "Nameless So-and-So"), (Nanno Nanigashi), (Dozaemon, a drowned corpse)
Languages Standard Chinese or Mandarin (Putonghua, based on the Beijing dialect), Yue (Cantonese), Wu (Shanghainese), Minbei (Fuzhou), Minnan (Hokkien-Taiwanese), Xiang, Gan, Hakka dialects, minority languages (see Ethnic groups entry) Japanese
Languages of the African Union > Illiteracy > Literacy rate 90.9 99.9
Ranked 80th. Ranked 9th. 10% more than China
Nobel Prize in Literature > Most awarded countries > % 0.98 1.96
Ranked 21st. Ranked 12th. 100% more than China
Nobel Prize in Literature > Most awarded countries > Laureates 1 2
Ranked 21st. Ranked 12th. 100% more than China

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