The Concise Dictionary of Spoken Chinese (1947), which was compiled by Yuen Ren Chao and Lien Sheng Yang, made numerous important lexicographic innovations...

'word dictionaries' (辞典; 辭典; cídiǎn) list words and phrases. Because tens of thousands of characters have been used in written Chinese, Chinese lexicographers...

The Concise Oxford English Dictionary (officially titled The Concise Oxford Dictionary until 2002, and widely abbreviated COD or COED) is one of the best-known...

Pei3-ching1). Chao used Gwoyeu Romatzyh in four influential works: Concise Dictionary of Spoken Chinese (1947; in collaboration with Yang Lien-sheng) Mandarin Primer –...

Notable Chinese dictionaries, past and present, include: List of English dictionaries List of French dictionaries List of Japanese dictionaries List of etymological...

of the grammar chapters in his earlier textbooks, Mandarin Primer and Cantonese Primer. He was co-author of the Concise Dictionary of Spoken Chinese,...

Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary. Presbyterian Mission Press. Chao, Yuen Ren; Yang, Lien-sheng (1947). Concise Dictionary of Spoken Chinese. Harvard...

prefer the Concise Oxford English Dictionary, or indeed the comprehensive Oxford English Dictionary, or other dictionaries aimed at speakers of English with...

Chao on the Concise Dictionary of Spoken Chinese (Harvard University Press, 1947), noted as one of the first dictionaries of whole Chinese words rather...

Kangxi Dictionary to aid categorization of Chinese characters. They are primarily sorted by stroke count. They are the most popular system of radicals...

A Dictionary of Current Chinese or Contemporary Chinese Dictionary, is an important one-volume dictionary of Standard Mandarin Chinese published by the...

ABC Chinese–English Dictionary or ABC Dictionary (1996), compiled under the chief editorship of John DeFrancis, is the first Chinese dictionary to collate...

English Dictionary Concise Oxford English Dictionary Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English / Longman Macmillan Dictionary Macquarie Dictionary, a dictionary...

Hainanese Transliteration Scheme Yang, Mingxin (杨明新) (1999). A Concise Cantonese-English Dictionary (简明粤英词典). Guangdong Higher Education Publishing House (广东高等教育出版社)...

state. The official name of the modern state is the "People's Republic of China" (simplified Chinese: 中华人民共和国; traditional Chinese: 中華人民共和國; pinyin: Zhōnghuá...

Natural History: Mammals, Richard Lydekker, F. Warne, 1894 A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, first edition 1882. 1670s, via Dutch...

including the Macquarie Concise Dictionary, Macquarie Compact Dictionary, Macquarie Budget Dictionary and Macquarie Little Dictionary are published. The first...

contains Chinese text and IPA phonetic symbols. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Chinese and...

ISBN 0-00-470678-1. [COD]: Concise Oxford Dictionary (8 ed.). Clarendon. 1990. ISBN 0-19-861200-1. [E]: "Microsoft Encarta online dictionary". Archived from the...

Old Uyghur (simplified Chinese: 回鹘语; traditional Chinese: 回鶻語; pinyin: Huíhú yǔ) was a Turkic language spoken in Qocho from the 9th–14th centuries as well...

the members of that speech community. In nearly all cases, the prestige dialect is also the dialect spoken by the most prestigious members of that community...

examples of such languages can be found worldwide among the most-spoken languages, including but not limited to Chinese in the People's Republic of China, Taiwan...

symbols. Chinese characters are logographs used to write the Chinese languages and others from regions historically influenced by Chinese culture. Of the four...

Chinese Multi-directional Dictionary (Arabic Alphabet) Uyghur–Chinese Dictionary (in Chinese)丝路语通 Online Uyghur–Chinese Dictionary and translation services...

state of Gujarat and spoken predominantly by the Gujarati people. Gujarati is descended from Old Gujarati (c. 1100–1500 CE). In India, it is one of the...

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the Concise Oxford University Dictionary 10th Edition, 1999. (accessed: November 02, 2015). Jamboree. Dictionary.com. Collins English Dictionary - Complete...

as Taigi (Chinese: 臺語; Tâi-lô: Tâi-gí), Taiwanese Southern Min (Chinese: 臺灣閩南語; Tâi-lô: Tâi-uân Bân-lâm-gí), Hoklo and Holo, is a variety of the Hokkien...

dialect of the Hokkien language of the Southern Min branch of Min Chinese descended directly from Old Chinese of the Sinitic family, primarily spoken vernacularly...

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