internal revenue service updates 2015 16 per diem rates the internal revenue service issued its annual updates of per diem rates for use in substantiating certain business expenses taxpayers incur when traveling away from home on or after oct 1
ê¸ëª©ìíí . This is a list of the Chinese characters for the five elements in a comfortable order (meaning that they simply feel right to a Chinese person who views this arrangement). The order is metal, wood, water, fire, earth. Note that sometimes the metal element is translated as gold.
The character for bird neatly represents a perched bird é¸, an ancient pictograph. The Chinese phoenix is considered the representative of all feathered creatures. Care must be however be taken as the character niao is a commonly used expletive. Here are some birds that are noted for their symbolism in Chinese art: