Tuttle Learners of Chinese -English Dictionary

...

...

SECOND EDITION LI Dong 李 冬 TUTTLE Publishing Tokyo | Rutland, Vermont | Singapore ...

The Tuttle Story: “Books to Span the East and West” Many people are surprised to learn that the world’s le ...

Fax: (65) 6280- [email protected] http://www.periplus.com 18 17 16 15 6 5 4 3 2 1 ...

Contents A Guide for Learners of Chinese 1 Pronunciation 1.1 The Pinyin Romanization System 1.2 Vowels 1.3 Consona ...

List 1 Meaningful Character Components List 2 Measure Words List of Radicals Radical Index Stroke Index Dictio ...

A Guide for Learners of Chinese This dictionary is for learners of Chinese as a foreign or secon ...

Group 1: diphthongs starting with a/e/ê ai similar to y in my ao similar to ow in how ...

n n f f l l s s r r b pronounced ...

represented by the tone mark , e.g. 马 mǎ (horse). The Fourth Tone is a falling tone. It falls from high to l ...

Components on page xvi. 2.3 The writing of Chinese characters STROKES Each Chinese character is written by a numb ...

2.4 Simplified and Traditional characters The Chinese government simplified hundreds of Chinese characters in mid-1950s ...

cáifù 财富 [comp: 财 property, fortune + 富 riches] N wealth, fortune Modification (“modif”): one component modifies the othe ...

4.1 Topic+Comment Structure The basic principle in making Chinese sentences is to follow the “topic+commen ...

4.5 Word Classes Following are brief explanations of the basic terms in Chinese grammar used in this dict ...

This dictionary arranges headwords alphabetically according to pinyin. So if you know how a word i ...

huó 活... 6.4 By English Meaning To find out the Chinese equivalent or near-equivalent of an English word, use the Eng ...

List 1 Meaningful Character Components Most of Chinese characters are made up of two or more component pa ...

扌, 手, 攵 = the hand, action (e.g. 拿 ná, 擦 cā) 灬 , 火 = fire, heat (e.g. 烧 shāo, 热 rè) 礻, 示 = spirit (e.g. 神 shén, 祖 ...