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Xiandai Hanyu Guifan Cidian (simplified Chinese: 现代 汉语 规范 词典; traditional Chinese: 現代 漢語 規範 詞典; pinyin: Xiàndài Hànyǔ Guīfàn Cídiǎn; lit. 'Contemporary Chinese Standard Dictionary' or 'A Standard Dictionary of Contemporary Chinese') [ 1 ] is a dictionary of Standard Chinese created as part of a proposal ...
Shuangpin (双拼; 雙拼), literally dual spell, is a stenographical phonetic input method based on hanyu pinyin that reduces the number of keystrokes for one Chinese character to two by distributing every vowel and consonant composed of more than one letter to a specific key.
On 16 February 1929, the Nationalist government adopted and promulgated The Weights and Measures Act [2] to adopt the metric system as the official standard and to limit the newer Chinese units of measurement (Chinese: 市用制; pinyin: shìyòngzhì; lit. 'market-use system') to private sales and trade in Article 11, effective on 1 January ...
Hanyu Pinyin, or simply pinyin, officially the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet, is the most common romanization system for Standard Chinese. Hanyu ( 汉语 ; 漢語 ) literally means ' Han language'—that is, the Chinese language—while pinyin literally means 'spelled sounds'.
Standard Chinese (simplified Chinese: 现代标准汉语; traditional Chinese: 現代標準漢語; pinyin: Xiàndài biāozhǔn hànyǔ; lit. 'modern standard Han speech') is a modern standard form of Mandarin Chinese that was first codified during the republican era (1912–1949).
The Hanyu Da Zidian, a compendium of Chinese characters, includes 54,678 head entries for characters, including oracle bone versions. The Zhonghua Zihai (1994) contains 85,568 head entries for character definitions and is the largest reference work based purely on character and its literary variants.
The (1962–1968) Zhongwen Da Cidian, sometimes called the Chinese Morohashi, is very similar in structure to Dai Kan-Wa Jiten and was one of the most comprehensive Chinese dictionaries available until the publication of the Hanyu Da Cidian in 1993. In 1982, Taishukan published an abridged "family edition" of the Dai Kan-Wa Jiten.
Bopomofo is shown in a secondary position to Hanyu Pinyin in all editions of Xiandai Hanyu Cidian from the 1960 edition to the current 2016 edition (7th edition). Bopomofo is also used to transcribe other Chinese dialects, most commonly Taiwanese Hokkien and Cantonese , however its use can be applied to practically any dialect in handwriting ...