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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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Are there standard dictionaries for Chinese?
Standard dictionaries have had a profound effect on languages like English. They've helped normalize spelling and pronunciation and provide reference for meanings and disambiguation.
When thinking of ...
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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 methods are available for looking up a character?
Some dictionaries provide a radical lookup for finding a character. Are there other systems available besides radical lookup for finding the meaning of a word when one only has the character?
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Where can I find a downloadable database of English to Chinese words?
CC-CEDICT is a Chinese to English dictionary, available for use On-line or for download (as a data file here: http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?page=cc-cedict). What similar projects provide ...
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Idiomatic expressions for attitude (agreement or disagreement)
I have recently seen two phrases which, in my understanding, looked very similar to each other:
再看吧 [zài kàn ba]
考虑考虑 [kǎo lǜ kǎo lǜ]
However, I've been told that the first one means almost ...
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What was this online dictionary's name with ancient traditional and simplified characters and etymology?
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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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 ...
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Is there a Chinese WordNet?
WordNet is a database of English words, which includes semantic relationships of words too. It includes synonym and antonym-relationships, as well as "categories". For example, it will tell me that ...
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Which dictionaries reveal the commonly mistaken usage of a word (i.e. how NOT to use a word)?
I encountered a very useful dictionary eight years ago, but have never been able to find a copy of it because I don't know what it's called. It not only gave examples in context of how to use the ...
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What are some good dictionaries about Mathematics?
I have found a dictionary about Mathematics; however, it goes from Chinese to English. I have tried different bookstores in my city, but they don't have an English to Chinese dictionary.
I have ...
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What digital illustrated dictionaries are available?
What dictionaries are available that contain separate illustrations for most of the terms? I would prefer something in online or in digital format.
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englisg to simflified mandarin maths dictionary [duplicate]
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What are some good dictionaries about Mathematics?
I'm searching without success for a downloadable English to Mandarin simplified maths dictionary for my 12 year old ...
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A dictionary for Chinese like Longmans. [closed]
I have tried a few different dictionaries, both online and printed (still trying to figure out how to use the printed Chinese dictionary).
However, my big problem is that they mostly just list a ...
