Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Thai greeting referred to as the wai ( Thai: ไหว้, pronounced [wâːj]) consists of a slight bow, with the palms pressed together in a prayer-like fashion. It has its origin in the Indian Añjali Mudrā, like the Indian namaste and Burmese mingalaba. The higher the hands are held in relation to the face and the lower the bow, the ...
Soi. Pattaya Soi 13/14, typical Soi in Pattaya. Moonmuang Soi 9 in Chiang Mai. Soi ( Thai: ซอย [sɔ̄ːj]) is the term used in Thailand for a side street branching off a major street ( thanon, Thai: ถนน ). [1] An alley is called a trok ( Thai: ตรอก ).
Thái people (Vietnam) Thái, Thai or Tai people ( Vietnamese: Người Thái) is officially recognized by the Vietnamese government as one of Vietnam's 54 ethnic groups. They are Tai ethnic groups that speak various Tai languages and use the Tai Viet script. They mostly live in the Northwest Region of Vietnam and are culturally and ...
Buddhism is the largest religion in Thailand, practised by roughly 94% of the population. The Thai Constitution does not indicate any state religion, but promotes Buddhism, while guaranteeing religious freedom for all Thai citizens. Many other people, especially among the Isan ethnic group, practise Tai folk religions.
Thai (Unicode block) Note: Five characters were removed from the Thai block in version 1.0.1 during the process of unifying with ISO 10646. [1] [2] [3] Thai is a Unicode block containing characters for the Thai, Lanna Tai, and Pali languages. It is based on the Thai Industrial Standard 620-2533 .
The Senate of Thailand ( Thai: วุฒิสภา, RTGS : Wutthisapha, pronounced [wút.tʰí.sā.pʰāː]; formerly known as the Phruetthasapha, Thai: พฤฒสภา, RTGS : Phruetthasapha, pronounced [pʰrɯ́t.tʰá.sā.pʰāː]) is the upper house of the National Assembly of Thailand, Thailand's legislative branch. In accordance with ...
Minh Thai (born 1965 as Thái Minh) is a Vietnamese-American speedcuber. As a sixteen-year-old Eagles Rock High School student from Los Angeles, he won the first world championship on June 5, 1982 in Budapest by solving a Rubik's Cube in 22.95 seconds. [1] He is also the author of the book The Winning Solution (1982), a guide to solving the ...
Google Translate is a web-based free-to-user translation service developed by Google in April 2006. [11] It translates multiple forms of texts and media such as words, phrases and webpages. Originally, Google Translate was released as a statistical machine translation service. [11] The input text had to be translated into English first before ...