Nuo tai
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Tai tou can be divided into two forms, Nuo tai and Ping tai.

Nuo tai is a typographical device used in written Chinese to denote respect for the person being mentioned. It leaves a full-width (1 character wide) space before the first character of the person; it can be represented as Unicode
Unicode
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 character 3000 . This is sometimes still used in Taiwan
Taiwan
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 for important officials, such as the Late President Lord Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang Kai-shek
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 and Father of the Nation Dr. Sun Yat-sen
Sun Yat-sen
Sun Yat-sen was a Chinese doctor, revolutionary and political leader. As the foremost pioneer of Nationalist China, Sun is frequently referred to as the "Father of the Nation" , a view agreed upon by both the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China...

, although this practice has gradually fallen out of favor.

Ping tai is another form. The way to express the respect is to shift the name of person directly to the head of the next line. This is now considered old-fashioned, and when it was used it was usually seen in documents sent between emperor and ministers when the minister mentioned the emperor.

Examples

  • 國父 孫中山先生 - Father of the Nation (space) Mr. Sun Yat-sen
    Sun Yat-sen
    Sun Yat-sen was a Chinese doctor, revolutionary and political leader. As the foremost pioneer of Nationalist China, Sun is frequently referred to as the "Father of the Nation" , a view agreed upon by both the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China...

  • 先總統 蔣公 - The Late President (space) Lord Chiang
    Chiang Kai-shek
    Chiang Kai-shek was a political and military leader of 20th century China. He is known as Jiǎng Jièshí or Jiǎng Zhōngzhèng in Mandarin....

  • 起初 神創造天地 - In the beginning
    Genesis 1:1
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    (space) God created the heaven and the earth (also due to formatting consistency between versions)
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