Tuttle Learners of Chinese -English Dictionary

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 ...

List 2 Measure Words Measure words are a special feature of Chinese. A particular measure word, or set of mea ...

fēn 分 Chinese currency (1 分 fēn = 0.1 角 jiǎo = 0.01 元 yuán), cent fèn 份 for a set of things or newspapers, doc ...

míng 名 for people, especially for those with a specific position or occupation mǔ 亩 a traditional Chinese unit ...

List of Radicals 1 stroke 丶 1 一 2 乙 3 丨 4 丿 5 2 strokes 亠 6 冫 7 讠 8 二 9 十 10 厂 11 匚 12 匕 13 卜 14 刂 15 冖 16 冂 17 勹 18 刀 19 ...

忄 34 小 35 宀 36 丬 37 广 38 门 39 辶 40 工 41 干 42 土 43 士 44 上 45 艹 46 廾 47 大 48 寸 49 扌 50 口 51 囗 52 巾 53 山 54 彳 55 彡 56 夕 57 夂 58 犭 5 ...

方 73 心 74 户 75 斗 76 王, 玉 77 木 78 犬 79 歹 80 瓦 81 车 82 比 83 曰 84 日 85 贝 86 见 87 父 88 攵 89 牛 90 手 91 毛 92 气 93 片 94 斤 95 爪 96 月 97 ...

钅 112 矢 113 禾 114 白 115 用 116 母 117 鸟 118 疒 119 立 120 穴 121 衤 122 示 123 去 124 疋 125 皮 126 6 strokes 老 127 耳 128 西 129 页 130 虫 ...

豸 149 角 150 言 151 辛 152 束 153 非 154 酉 155 豆 156 8 strokes 隹 157 青 158 鱼 159 雨 160 齿 161 9 strokes 革 162 是 163 食 164 音 165 10 ...

Radical Index All characters are listed here under their radical plus the number of additional strokes needed ...

牙 yá 尤 yóu 长 zhǎng 专 zhuān 不 bù/bú 丰 fēng 4–6 strokes 击 jī 龙 lóng 平 píng 世 shì 丙 bǐng 丛 cóng 东 dōng 而 ér 夹 jiā 亚 yà 再 zài 至 zhì ...