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Although Lin's dictionary includes words from many modern sources, "What is left out, unfortunately for most potential users, is the vocabulary developed in the People's Republic". [24] Reviewers have frequently commended Lin's dictionary for its accurate English translation equivalents of each head character and its multiple usage examples.
The Five Thousand Dictionary: A Chinese-English Dictionary... (1926) or Fenn's Chinese-English Pocket-Dictionary (1942), which was compiled by American missionary Courtenay H. Fenn, is a widely reprinted learners' dictionary that selected Chinese character entries on the basis of common usage.
In most European languages, where the word resembles te, tea generally originated in the Amoy port. The other common word for tea worldwide, usually in places where tea generally came via the Silk Road, derives from the Mandarin pronunciation with the same Old Chinese etymology. Tofu: Sino-Japanese 豆腐: tōfu: cf. Mandarin dòufu: Tong ...
The List of Frequently Used Characters in Modern Chinese was developed by the department of Chinese characters of the State Language Commission and was jointly released by the State Language Commission and the National Education Committee of the People's Republic of China in 1988, together with the List of Commonly Used Characters in Modern ...
"通用规范汉字表" [List of Commonly Used Standard Chinese Characters] (PDF). Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China. 18 June 2013 "国务院关于公布《通用规范汉字表》的通知" [State Council announcement of the List of Commonly Used Standard Chinese Characters].
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.
Here are three representative examples of praise: "the most extraordinary Chinese–English dictionary I have ever had such pleasure to look Chinese words up in and to read their English definitions"; [22] "The thorough scholarship and fresh outlook make it a valuable contribution to Chinese lexicography, while the high production standards and ...
The List of Commonly Used Characters in Modern Chinese (simplified Chinese: 现代汉语通用字表; traditional Chinese: 現代漢語通用字表; pinyin: Xiàndài Hànyǔ Tōngyòngzì Biǎo) is a list of 7,000 commonly used Chinese characters in Chinese. It was created in 1988 in the People's Republic of China. [1]