The ABC Chinese–English Dictionary or ABC Dictionary (1996), compiled under the chief editorship of John DeFrancis, is the first Chinese dictionary to...
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English Dictionary for Learners Chinese Tools Dictionary Chinese Notes - open source Chinese-Dictionary LINE English-Chinese Dictionary Chinese-English Dictionary...
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A Chinese–English Dictionary: Compiled for the China Inland Mission by R. H. Mathews or Mathews' Chinese–English Dictionary, edited by the Australian...
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Alphabetical order (redirect from ABC order)
oil paint, oil painting, oilpaper. There is an exception: In ABC Chinese–English Dictionary the tone order is "zero tone (neutral tone), first tone (flat...
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Pinyin (redirect from BGN/PCGN romanization of Chinese characters)
officially the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet, is the most common romanization system for Standard Chinese. Hanyu (simplified Chinese: 汉语; traditional Chinese: 漢語) literally...
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Chinese dictionaries include character dictionaries (Chinese: 字典; pinyin: zìdiǎn) and word dictionaries (simplified Chinese: 词典; traditional Chinese:...
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The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University...
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Notable Chinese dictionaries, past and present, include: List of English dictionaries List of French dictionaries List of Japanese dictionaries List of...
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innovations. It was the first Chinese dictionary specifically for spoken Chinese words rather than for written Chinese characters, and one of the first...
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Pinyin alphabetical order (category CS1 Chinese-language sources (zh))
(dìbiǎo), 底層 (dǐcéng), 地租 (dìzū). This method is applied to ABC Chinese-English Dictionary. The Chinese character pinyin sorting method adopts the internationally...
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A Chinese character set (simplified Chinese: 汉字字符集; traditional Chinese: 中文字元集; pinyin: hànzì zìfú jí) is a group of Chinese characters. Since the size...
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Look up ABC, abc, A.B.C., or ABCs in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ABC are the first three letters of the Latin script. ABC or abc may also refer to:...
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The dictionary contains an electronic version of the ABC Chinese–English Dictionary by John DeFrancis and the Shuowen Jiezi seal character dictionary. The...
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Monkey mind (category Articles containing Chinese-language text)
next) 【意馬心猿】 indecisive; wavering (ABC Chinese-English Dictionary) Six of these 11 Chinese–English dictionaries enter only the common xinyuanyima "mind-monkey...
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ed. (2003), ABC Chinese–English Dictionary, University of Hawaii Press, p. 1087. Edney, Kingsley (2014). The Globalization of Chinese Propaganda. New...
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Edgar Snow John Carter Vincent Theodore White John DeFrancis ABC Chinese-English Dictionary (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1996), p. 800. Carroll...
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Tao (category Articles containing Chinese-language text)
(2003). ABC Chinese-English Comprehensive Dictionary. University of Hawaii Press. Dumoulin, Henrik (2005). Zen Buddhism: a History: India and China. Translated...
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John DeFrancis (category Articles containing Chinese-language text)
linguist, sinologist, author of Chinese language textbooks, lexicographer of Chinese dictionaries, and professor emeritus of Chinese Studies at the University...
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Sexual vampire (category Articles containing Chinese-language text)
University of Washington Press. DeFrancis, John, ed. (1996). ABC Chinese-English Dictionary. University of Hawai'i Press. Despeux, Catherine (2000). "Women...
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Chinese (simplified Chinese: 汉语; traditional Chinese: 漢語; pinyin: Hànyǔ; lit. 'Han language' or 中文; Zhōngwén; 'Chinese writing') is a group of languages...
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Qi (category Articles containing Chinese-language text)
lists 23 meanings for the qì pronunciation. The modern ABC Chinese-English Comprehensive Dictionary, which enters xì 餼 "grain; animal feed; make a present...
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"The ABC Song" is the best-known song used to recite the English alphabet in alphabetical order. It is commonly used to teach the alphabet to children...
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ISO/IEC 646 (based on ASCII) which was based on the 26 letters of the English alphabet and previous telecommunication standards "Uralic Phonetic Alphabet...
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Lu Zhuangzhang (category Articles containing Chinese-language text)
DeFrancis dedicated his innovative ABC Chinese-English Dictionary to Lu Zhuangzhang and five other advocates of Chinese script reform, and described him...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation (redirect from Abc.net.au ABC Online)
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is Australia's principal public service broadcaster. It is funded primarily by grants from the federal government...
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Jingzhe (category Articles containing Chinese-language text)
(Jing Zhe) Mar. 5th Hibernating animals come to sense Jīngzhé,ABC Chinese–English Dictionary: Alphabetically Based Computerized, page 308, by John DeFrancis...
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central plains of China. The Huaxia are the progenitors of Chinese civilization and ancestors of the modern Han Chinese. Han Chinese people and culture...
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When two tigers fight (category CS1 Chinese-language sources (zh))
ISBN 9781471608513. Rohsenow, John S. (2003). ABC Dictionary of Chinese Proverbs (Yanyu) (in English and Chinese). University of Hawaii Press. p. 84. ISBN 9780824827700...
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Yin and yang (category CS1 uses Chinese-language script (zh))
yang are semantically complex words. John DeFrancis's ABC Chinese-English Comprehensive Dictionary gives the following translation equivalents. Yin 陰 or...
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Chinese as a foreign or second language is when non-native speakers study Chinese varieties. The increased interest in China from those outside has led...
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