CHINESE-ENGLISH

A Chinese-English dictionary

By Giles Allen Herbert.

Book information

Language
chinese-english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
125 MB (131017969 bytes)
Pages
\1810
Topic
Linguistics Foreign
Library
twirpx
Time added
2017-08-07 07:01:42
Языки и языкознание;Китайский язык;Словари

Description

Taipei: Ch'engwen Publishing Co., 1978. — xviii; 84, 1711 p. (Reprinted according second edition, revised & enlarged, Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, 1912). 台北:成文出版社，67 — xviii; 84,1711頁。The first truly adequate Chinese–English dictionary. It contained 13,848 characters and numerous compound expressions, with pronunciation based upon Beijing Mandarin, which it compared with nine southern dialects such as Hakka, Cantonese, and Min. It has been called "still interesting as a repository of late Qing documentary Chinese, although there is little or no indication of the citations, mainly from the Kangxi zidian." Giles modified the Chinese romanization system of Thomas Francis Wade to create the Wade-Giles system, which was standard in English speaking countries until 1979 when pinyin was adopted.

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