Questions tagged [dictionary]
Questions related to using sources that contain definitions, information or translations of words.
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What etymology dictionaries are available?
What dictionaries (online, software-based or in paper form) explain the origins of a word and its evolution over time? E.g. how the character was once written, how the usage – and the meaning – ...
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What was this online dictionary's name with ancient traditional and simplified characters and glyph origins? [duplicate]
I once found a Mandarin Chinese dictionary which for each character listed the ancient, the traditional and the simplified Chinese characters. For each it described its meaning and how it developed ...
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Is there an official stroke order for each character?
I’m a learner of Japanese for now some years, and I really like kanji, or chinese characters, and I’ve recently taken some interest in the Chinese language though I don’t intend to learn it.
My ...
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How to Find Characters in a Dictionary?
In English we would look words based on their alphabetical order.
But how are Chinese dictionaries ordered to allow you to find what you are looking for - is it based on the radicals, number of ...
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Searching for characters by parts
Are there any online or computer dictionaries that allow searching for characters by any sub-part of the character? Occasionally it I see a character the parts of which I can already type. But I can'...
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How do I resolve dictionary ambiguities when looking up words/phrases?
More often than not, looking up a simple word in a dictionary brings up several translations. It's pretty obvious that a lot of people have problems with this since a lot of questions here are "what ...
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bkrs Chinese dictionary?
I’ve seen that some users like to refer to a dictionary called bkrs (or: 大 БКРС) in their comments.
I’ve been on the website (https://bkrs.info), but since I don’t know Russian, I don’t understand it.
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what are some dictionaries about vocabulary of classical chinese?
vocabulary of classical Chinese,
explanatory glosses on their usage,
example sentences,
semantic difference of similar characters used in modern vernacular Chinese and classical and such alike ...
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Is there a dictionary that includes word collocations (词语搭配)?
Is there a decent dictionary that includes word collocations (词语搭配), or words that the searched word cannot be used with?
I use Pleco, but one of my largest complaints with it is that there's really ...
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What is the title of this Ming era picture dictionary?
I was browsing Wikipedia when I came across this picture:
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The description says:
An excerpt from a 1436 primer on Chinese characters. (better version)
Original picture sourced from:
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Can I use 现代汉语词典 outside of the paper dictionary?
现代汉语词典 seems to be the de facto standard for Chinese dictionaries. Some users here use it as well. But it seems only possible for the paper version.
But I might miss something. Is it possible to use ...
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Why does Chinese combine words with the same meaning to produce again the same meaning like 睡觉? [duplicate]
I keep coming across words like 睡觉 which both mean to sleep and together mean to sleep. Are the dictionaries that I'm using adding the definition of the combined words to the single words possibly or ...
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Apple Tablet Dictionary that Supports Drawing Input
I am trying to find an Apple tablet dictionary that supports drawing input.
What I mean by that Is that you are able to draw the character you are looking for and then it suggests a number of ...
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What is the difference between 不 and 没? [duplicate]
I know 不 is the negative prefix for a verb, such as 不是. However 没 is also a negative prefix, such as 没有, so what is the difference between 不 and 没? Thanks!
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Do only about 3000 Chinese characters occur in more than one word in the dictionary 现代汉语词典?
My question is motivated by the following quote:
Guān and Tián, in a preliminary survey of this kind found that in the Xiàndài hànyǔ cídίǎn (see section 7.9), 1,972 characters occur in five or more ...
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