ABC Chinese-English dictionary : alphabetically based computerized

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ABC Chinese-English dictionary : alphabetically based computerized

editor, John DeFrancis ; associate editors, Bai Yuqing ... [et al.]

Allen & Unwin, 1997, c1996

  • : pbk

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ABC Chinese-English dictionary

漢英詞典 : 按羅馬字母順序配列

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First published:Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c1996

"電脳音拼編碼" -- on T.p. and cover

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I've been a student of Chinese for most of my adult life and throughout that time I have wanted a book like the ABC Chinese-English Dictionary. Once again the Chinese language learning and teaching profession owes a great debt of gratitude to John DeFrancis. John S. Montanaro, Far Eastern Publications, Yale University A great advance over previous dictionaries...Sets a new standard for convenience and usefulness. Andrew G. Walder, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology A major, path-breaking effort...Professor DeFrancis and his colleagues are to be congratulated for adopting courageously the revolutionary principle of making the entries based on Chinese as a living, spoken language. Anthony C. Yu, University of Chicago This dictionary ushers in a new era in Chinese lexicography as the first strictly alphabetically ordered and Pinyin-computerized dictionary. Among its distinctive features: . alphabetically arranged entries offering the simplest and quickest way to look up a term whose pronunciation is know. User-friendly radical and stroke indexes are provided for those cases when pronunciation of a term is not known;

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Editor's Call to ActionAcknowledgmentsIntroductionI Distinctive features of the dictionaryII Selection and definition of entriesUsers GuideI Arrangement of entriesII OrthographyIII Explanatory notes and examplesIV Works consultedV AbbreviationsThe dictionaryAppendicesI Basic rules for Hanyu Pinyin OrthographyII Historical chronologyIII Analytic summary of transcription systemsIV Wade-Giles/Pinyin comparative tableV PY/WG/GR/YR/ZF comparative tableVI Radical index of traditional charactersNotes on Kangxi radicalsKangxi radical chartKangxi radical indexVII Stroke order list of recurrent partialsVIII Stroke order index of characters with obscure radicalsIX Radical index of simplified charactersNotes on selected CASS radicalsHigh frequency CASS radicalsNotes on selected CASS radicalsSimpl

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