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A Chinese and English Vocabulary in the Pekinese Dialect (Classic Reprint)
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Many characters in common use will be found in this hook that are not recognised by dictionaries. I have used them, however, as I consider them indispensable, and placed them under the radicals they naturally belong to. It has also been a principle with me not to admit any characters but those actually known to my teacher without reference to books - a principle adopted on the ground that if a well informed Chinese did not know a character or word and its meaning without such reference, it could not possibly be in common use, and was therefore superfluous to my present purpose and not necessary for a foreign beginner to learn. In some places, too, meanings have been given to. Words utterly at variance with the definitions given in previous dictionaries, for I have preferred giving them as they are really used now, rather than meanings which probably were in use formerly, but which are now obsolete, though still retained in diction aries drawn chiefly from ancient writings. It may appear presumptuous in me to venture to alter meanings which have been recognised in books for so many years, but if several teachers, at different times and places, and unknown to each other, decide unanimously in giving one meaning to a character or word, and I know that meaning to be in general use, I give it in preference to an obsolete one, even though it has the sanction of a dictionary.
Product details
- Number of Pages:
- 704
- Release Date:
- 2017-10-22
- Publication Date:
- 2017-10-22
- Publisher:
- Forgotten Books
- Languages:
- Published: English, Original: English
- ISBN10:
- 0265612071
- Weight:
- 1084 g
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