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A team of scholars at the Chinese University of Hong Kong Research Centre for Humanities Computing developed a free web edition of Lin Yutang's Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage and published it online in 1999. The web edition comprises a total of 8,169 head characters, 40,379 entries of Chinese words or phrases, and 44,407 explanatory ...
Lin Yutang (10 October 1895 – 26 March 1976) was a Chinese inventor, linguist, novelist, philosopher, and translator. One scholar commented that Lin's "particular blend of sophistication and casualness found a wide audience, and he became a major humorous and critical presence", and he made compilations and translations of the Chinese classics into English.
The first edition ABC Chinese–English Dictionary (1996) was incorporated into Wenlin 2.0 with over 74,000 entries (1998); the second ABC Chinese–English Comprehensive Dictionary (2003) went into Wenlin 3.0 with over 196,000 entries (2002); and the third edition ABC English–Chinese, Chinese–English Dictionary (2010) was incorporated into ...
Oldest extant Chinese dictionary, semantic field collation, one of the Thirteen Classics: Fangyan: 15 BC (Han) Yang Xiong, first dictionary of Chinese regional varieties: Le Grand Ricci (or Grand dictionnaire Ricci de la langue chinoise) 2001, DVD 2010: 7 volume Chinese-French dictionary, 13,500 characters and about 300,000 entries of terms and ...
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.
Moment in Peking is a novel originally written in English by Chinese author Lin Yutang.The novel, Lin's first, covers the turbulent events in China from 1900 to 1938, including the Boxer Uprising, the Republican Revolution of 1911, the Warlord Era, the rise of nationalism and communism, and the start of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945.
Lin Tai-yi (Chinese: 林太乙; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lîm Thài-it; April 1, 1926 [1] – July 2003) [2] was a Chinese-American writer, editor and translator. She was also known as Anor Lin or Lin Wu-Shuang. [3] The daughter of Lin Yutang, she was born in Beijing [1] and came to the United States with
A separate volume of essays [2] documents the lexicographical complexities for this full-scale Chinese dictionary. Besides the weighty 5,790-page first edition, there are 3-volume (1995) and pocket [3] editions. A second edition (pictured at right) was published in 2006, and has a list of radicals printed on the dust jacket of each volume for ...