Dictionaries 字、辭典
NO. Author/Title EAN 台幣
CW 10 Giles, H.A. A Chinese-English Dictionary.(翟氏漢英大字典: 古文/文言文釋意及例句) (Shanghai & London 1898, 2nd Ed. Revised & Enlarged 1912) 4711871492813 3,050
Still considered to be the best dictionary of its kind, this revised edition presents 10,926 Chinese characters with Romanization into the following dialects: Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka, Foochow; Wenchow, Ningpo, Peking; Mid.China, Yangchow, Szechuan, Korean, Japanese, and Annamese. The rhyme group of each character in the 佩文韻府 Pei Wen Yun Fu is noted. The characters are arranged alphabetically, but a radical index arranged by stroke is included. A large number of binomes and phrases are presented and translated to illustrate the Chinese meaning, of each character. This work is prefaced with a number of useful tables including Romanization of family names, dynastic reigns, topographical and cylindrical terms.
CW 200 Mathews, R.H. Kuoyu Primer (英華合璧) Progressive Studies In The Chinese National Language. (Shanghai: 1938) 4711871492820 1,950
Designed to introduce students to Chinese characters, their usage, and the grammatical structure of modern Mandarin. Forty vocabulary lists giving the character romanixation, definitions, and usage of 1,354 characters are interspersed among 265 sections each explaining one grammatical point with illustrations taken from contemporary modern Mandarin writings, the Chinese Bible and other sources. Forty groups of miscellaneous examples and English sentences for translation appear intermittently. The second part of this volume is devoted to vocabulary list on subjects ranging from human anatomy to astronomy. This volume has character and phrase indexes. Still a useful language tool.
OS 3 Grace Wan. A Guide to Gwoyeu Tsyrdean.(國語字典指南) 1969 4711871492868 350
CW 301 Arthur H. Smith. Proverbs and Common Sayings from the Chinese (中國諺語與俗話) 4711871501263 2,240
Explained in this book are about 1900 phrases, proberbs, couplets, odes, etc., and more then 300 examples are included. The field covered is so wide that it virtually covers every aspect from the daily life to the universe. One may be surprised to notice the richness of the Chinese language after an examination of the Chinese proverbial sayings.
CW 96 Couveur, F.S. Dictionaire Classique De La Langue Chinoise 2nd Ed. (Shanghai: 1930) (中法古文字典) 4711871499416 3,040
This dictionary includes approximately 21,400 characters arranged according to radical and stroke It is based upon premier Chinese dictionaries of the Ming and Ch' ing periods. Definitions are illustrated by examples taken for the most part from classical texts, i.e. texts from the Chou dynasty to the Ch'ing dynasty. Some illustrations are provided from contemporary official documents, literature, and colloqulal language.
CW 32 Karlgren, B. Analytic Dictionary Of Chinese And Sino- Japanese (中日解析字典) Paris: 1923 4711871498808 1,760
This is technical, analytical dictionary best appreciated by the philologist, but also useful to the more casual student of the Chinese language. Karlgren introduces his work with a lucid explanation his transcription system, a lengthy discussion of the ancient. Ch'ieh-yun (a dictionary of the sixth century A. D.) system and the evolution of spoken Chinese from Ancient Chinese to the modern Mandarin dialect, and an analysis of the method of creating phonetic compounds. Characters are listed under either their Mandarin sound or according to their phonetics. Mandarin, Cantonese, Ancient Chinese and Japanese pronunciations are given along with definitions, comments on the composition or other technical aspects of the character, pronunciation, etc. Indexed by "radical" and stroke.
M 6 Tse-tsung Chou. A New Index to Mathews' Chiese-English Dictionary(麥氏漢英字典索引). Wisconsin: 1972. (26), 314pp. 4711871503137 420
CW 61 Karlgren, B. Grammata Serica 高本漢著 (中日漢字行聲論). Script And Phonetics In Chinese And Sino-Japanese. (Reprinted from The Bulletin of The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm.) 4711871499089 1,280
An indispensable tool for Chinese linguistics, philology, and classical texts. Valuable for study of the evolution of Chinese script, pronunciation and determination of possible loan characters. Karlgren introduces this work with learned essays on the phonetic evolution of Chinese from archaic to ancient, and from ancient to modern Mandarin. The main body of Grammata Serica is composed of characters which occur in each of the following sources: oracle bones, bronzes, pre-Ch'in and some early Han texts. The characters are arranged chronologically from their earliest form and in phonetic series. For each character Karlgren provides his reconstruction of the archaic pronunciation, the ancient sound based primarily on the Ch'ieh-yun dictionary of the sixth century A.D., and the modern Mandarin. The most important meanings in pre-Han texts are also recorded and the source identified. A character index arranged by radical completes this volume.
CRAS 5 Harnod Hakanchulu. A Chinese-Mongolian Dictionary (漢蒙字典.) 1969., 1,536pp. 4711871492844 2,600