A Hakka index to the Chinese-English dictionary and to the syllabic dictionary of Chinese

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Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press, 1904. — 150; 6 p.Of the two sets of figures attached to each character, the upper set gives the number of the character in Giles; the lower gives the page in Williams, where the character may be found. When the sound of any Chinese character has been ascertained from this Radical Index, the meaning may be found by referring to those two Dictionaries, or to the Hakka Dictionary, which is arranged in alphabetic order. When more sounds than one are given for a character, the first is the one usually to be preferred. When the sounds given differ only in tone, the deflected (tset), i.e., Rising or Departing tone gives the proper sound of the character; while the Even (phin) tone gives the colloquial (c.) sound. The tones are indicated as follows : The Upper Even (Shong phin) is not accented, Fu. The Lower Even (Ha phin) has got the circumflex accent, Fu. The Rising tone (Shong shang), has the acute accent, Fu. The Departing tone (Khi shang) has the grave accent, Fu. The Upper Entering (Shong nyip) tone has the acute accent, Fuk. Tiie Lower Entering (Ha nyip), is not accented, Fuk. The fact that the entering tones in Hakka always end in k, p, or t, prevents confusion with the Upper Even or with the Rising tone. The system of 'Romanising' is that now in general use in Southern China. For further remarks see the Introduction to the Hakka Dictionary.