Chinese temple architecture also "wu" and "tongji" shamans, may perform services within these temples. Shenist temples are usually small and decorated with traditional figures on their roofs (dragons and deities), although some evolve into significant structures. Chinese temples can be found throughout Mainland China, Taiwan and also where Chinese expatriate communities settled over centuries. An old name in English for Chinese traditional temples is "joss house". "Joss" is an Anglicized spelling of the Portuguese word for "god", "deus". "Joss house" was in common use in English in western North America during frontier times, when joss houses were a common feature of Chinatowns. The
Kyakhta Russian–Chinese Pidgin Kyakhta pidgin contains several new compounds that could have been inspired by Chinese: Like most pidgins Kyakhta pidgin lacks many morphological categories - there are no cases, numbers or gender of nouns. Russian pidgins in general tend to have clear verb indications. In Kyakhta Pidgin, similarly to other Siberian pidgins, most verbs have ending -j/-i: "болей" ("to be sick"), "выгони" ("to turn out"), "захорони" ("to bury"), "гоняй" ("to drive"), "незнай" ("to be unaware"), "ругай" ("to scold"), "сади" ("to seat"). This ending makes verbs similar to the imperative form of Russian verbs: for example, "болей" is the Russian verb "болеть" ("to