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2. Yiqiejing yinyi (Huilin) - Wikipedia

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   In the history of Chinese lexicography, Hulin's Yiqiejing yinyi was an early Buddhist yinyi "pronunciation and meaning" dictionary. This genre originated when Buddhism became a popular Chinese religion in the period between the Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 CE) and Tang dynasty (618-907).

3. De (Chinese) - Wikipedia

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   ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese. University of Hawaii Press. Tzu, Chuang; Fung, Yu-lan (15 October 2015) [1931]. Chuang-Tzu: A New Selected Translation with an Exposition of the Philosophy of Kuo Hsiang. Springer. ISBN 978-3-662-48075-5. Waley, Arthur (1934). The way and its power: A study of the Tao Te Ching and its place in Chinese ...

4. Chinese views on sin - Wikipedia

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   The Chinese translation of punya is gong 功" achievement; result; skill; meritorious service", compounded in gong-guo 功過 "achievements and errors; merits and sins". The ethnologist Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf described the importance of karmic "merit" in Chinese spiritual thought,

5. List of Chinese dictionaries - Wikipedia

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   A Chinese-English Dictionary: 1892: Herbert Allen Giles' bestselling dictionary, 2nd ed. 1912 A Dictionary of the Chinese Language: 1815–1823: First Chinese-English, English-Chinese dictionary, Robert Morrison: A Syllabic Dictionary of the Chinese Language: 1874: First Chinese-English dictionary to include regional pronunciations, Samuel ...

6. Chinese dictionary - Wikipedia

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   A page from the Yiqiejing yinyi, the oldest extant Chinese dictionary of Buddhist technical terminology – Dunhuang manuscripts, c. 8th century. There are two types of dictionaries regularly used in the Chinese language: 'character dictionaries' (字典; zìdiǎn) list individual Chinese characters, and 'word dictionaries' (辞典; 辭典; cídiǎn) list words and phrases.

7. Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan - Wikipedia

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   The dictionary uses the Taiwanese Romanization System (based on pe̍h-ōe-jī) to indicate pronunciations and includes audio files for many words. As of 2013, the dictionary included entries for 20,000 words. [1] In September 2000, initial plans to commission the dictionary were put forth by the National Languages Committee of the Ministry of ...

8. Xinhua Dictionary - Wikipedia

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   It is the best-selling Chinese dictionary and the world's most popular reference work. [1] In 2016, Guinness World Records officially confirmed that the dictionary, published by The Commercial Press, is the "Most popular dictionary" and the "Best-selling book (regularly updated)". It is considered a symbol of Chinese culture. [2]

9. Merit (Buddhism) - Wikipedia

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   The term merit, originally a Christian term, has in the latter part of the twentieth century gradually been used as a translation of the Buddhist term puñña or puñña. [6] The Buddhist term has, however, more of an impermanent character than the English translation implies, [7] and the Buddhist term does not imply a sense of deserving. [8] [9]