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    pioneering (1815–1823) A Dictionary of the Chinese Language. Medhurst's intention was to publish an abridged and cheaper dictionary that still contained all...
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    A ChineseEnglish Dictionary (1892), compiled by the British consular officer and sinologist Herbert Allen Giles (1845–1935), is the first Chinese–English...
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    Chinese and English arranged alphabetically; Part 3: English and Chinese. Medhurst, Walter, ed. A Dictionary of the Hok-këèn Dialect of the Chinese Language:...
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    Medhurst, an early translator of the Bible into Chinese, compiled Medhurst's Chinese and English Dictionary (1842–1843) in two volumes, with Chinese sourced...
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    in China. It began with Robert Morrison's (1815-1823) A Dictionary of the Chinese Language, and continued with Walter Henry Medhurst's (1842) Chinese and...
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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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    the Bible into Chinese-language editions. Medhurst's father was an innkeeper in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire. As a young man, Medhurst studied at Hackney...
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    000 head entries in Medhurst's (1842) Chinese and English Dictionary: Containing All the Words in the Chinese Imperial Dictionary, Arranged According...
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    Chinese gods and immortals are beings in various Chinese religions seen in a variety of ways and mythological contexts. Many are worshiped as deities because...
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    Chinese folk religion comprises a range of traditional religious practices of Han Chinese, including the Chinese diaspora. This includes the veneration...
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    the first Chinese-English, English-Chinese dictionary. Part I is Chinese-English arranged by the 214 Kangxi radicals, Part II is Chinese-English arranged...
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  • Huan-a (category Articles containing Chinese-language text)
    language (link) Medhurst, Walter Henry (1832). A Dictionary of the Hok-këèn Dialect of the Chinese Language: According to the Reading and Colloquial Idioms:...
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    Hoanya people (category Articles containing Chinese-language text)
    and use of the obsolete -iá (仔) suffix is also recorded in Medhurst's 1832 Hokkien dictionary. The modern form of the aforementioned word in Taiwanese Hokkien...
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    after it, Walter Henry Medhurst's 1843 Chinese and English Dictionary summarized the Kangxi zidian dictionary entry for mò and added that it was the tapir...
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    Yansheng Coins (traditional Chinese: 厭勝錢; simplified Chinese: 厌胜钱; pinyin: yàn shèng qián), commonly known as Chinese numismatic charms, refer to a collection...
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    Hokkien (redirect from Hokkien Chinese)
    Min, Gan Chinese or Hakka. The term Hokkien was first used by Walter Henry Medhurst in his 1832 Dictionary of the Hok-këèn Dialect of the Chinese Language...
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    Robert Morrison (missionary) (category CS1 Chinese-language sources (zh))
    Morrison (1815). A Dictionary of the Chinese Language, in Three Parts: Chinese and English, arranged according to the radicals. Macao, China: Printed at the...
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  • understand Chinese sutras, adapted Chinese character dictionaries. Present-day Japanese lexicographers are exploring computerized editing and electronic...
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    Jiagun (category Articles containing Chinese-language text)
    Herbert A. (1912), A Chinese-English Dictionary, revised ed., 2 vols. Kelly & Walsh. medhurst, George Henry (1801), The punishments of China, Illustrated by...
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    local Chinese lingua franca within the overseas Chinese community in the Philippines and acts as the heritage language of a majority of Chinese Filipinos...
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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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    Walter Henry Medhurst ChineseEnglish Dictionary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Amoy, with the Principal Variations of the Chang-chew and Chin-chew...
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    translation of a book on the Chinese, Korean, and Japanese languages. Medhurst's romanization scheme was otherwise not significantly used. In 1874, the...
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    Pe̍h-ōe-jī (category Articles containing Chinese-language text)
    first reference work to reflect this modern spelling. Between Medhurst's dictionary of 1832 and the standardization of POJ in Tipson's time, there were a...
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  • Wasei-kango (category Articles containing Chinese-language text)
    Henry Medhurst "English and Chinese Dictionary" (1847-1848): 知識, 幹事, 物質, 偶然, 教養, 天主, 小說, 本質 Wilhelm Lobscheid "English and Chinese Dictionary, with Punti...
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    Hudson Taylor (category English Protestant ministers and clergy)
    Taylor (Chinese: 戴德生; pinyin: dài dé shēng; 21 May 1832 – 3 June 1905) was a British Protestant Christian missionary to China and founder of the China Inland...
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  • entirely new, the remainder being founded on hymns in Dr. Walter Henry Medhurst’s Hymn Book, but entirely remodeled. Mr. Young’s Hymn Book is bound up with...
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    Ang mo (category Articles containing Chinese-language text)
    the Chinese community for mocking other Chinese who are not able to read Chinese. Ang Mo Kio Barang Bule Farang Gweilo Mat Salleh Totok Medhurst, W. H...
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    in Early and Modern Chinese Religion Lee, Thomas H.C. (1985), Government Education and Examinations in Sung [Song] China, Hong Kong: Chinese University...
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    Samuel Wells Williams (category Articles containing Chinese-language text)
    the latter's Chinese Chrestomathy in the Canton Dialect, published in 1842, and Walter Medhurst in completing his English-Chinese Dictionary of 1848, two...
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