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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 translator Lin Yutang wrote the semantically sophisticated Lin Yutang's Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage (1972) that is now available online. [16] The author Liang Shih-Chiu edited two full-scale dictionaries: Chinese-English [ 17 ] with over 8,000 characters and 100,000 entries, and English-Chinese [ 18 ] with over 160,000 entries.
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 ...
Lin Yutang's Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage; Longkan Shoujian; M. Mathews' Chinese–English Dictionary; Medhurst's Chinese and English Dictionary; Menggu ...
The oldest daughter of Lin Yutang, she was born in Amoy and came to the United States at the age of thirteen. [1] With her sisters Tai-yi and Mei Mei, she published Our Family, an autobiographical work, in 1939. In 1940, with Tai-yi, she published Girl Rebel, a translation of the autobiography of Xie Bingying.
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
Some older CEDICT data is also found in the Adsotrans dictionary. February 2012: ChE-DICC, the Spanish-Chinese free dictionary starts (currently beta) May 2017: CHDICT (11,000 entries) for Hungarian; CC-Canto is Pleco Software's addition of Cantonese language readings in Jyutping transcription to CC-CEDICT [4]