古文古籍资料-Sino-Platonic Papers 001 (1986).pdfVIP

SIN0-PLATONIC PAPERS Number 1 February, 1986 $2.50 The Need for an Alphabetically Arranged General Usage Dictionary of Mandarin Chinese: A Review Article of Some Recent Dictionrtries and Clcrrent Lexicographical Projects by Victor H.Mair Order from Department of Oriental Studies University of PennsylvaniaiCU Philadelphia. PA 19104-6305 USA The Need for an Alphabetically Arranged General Usage Dictionary of Mandarin Chinese: +. A R~viewArticle of Soiue Recelzt Dictionnrie,~ clrlcl C~~rreiztLexicog~riphicnlPrqjects AS a working Sinologist, each time I look up a word in my Websters or Kcnkyusha.~I experience a sharp pang of deprivation. Having slaved over Chinese dictionaries arranged in every imaginable order (by Kang-hsi ratfical, left-top radical. bottorn-right radical, left-right split. total strokc count. shape of successive strokes, four-corner, three-corner, two-comer, kuei-hsiel?, rsnrzg-c17ieh,telegraphic codc , rhyme tables, phonetic keys, and so on (id izn~rsecirn),I have become deeply envious of specialists in those languages, such as Japanese, Indonesian, Hindi. Persian. Russian. Turkish, Korean. Vietnamese, and so forth, which possess alphabetically arranged dictionaries. Even Zulu. Swahili, Akkadian (Assyrian). and now Surncrian have alphabetically ordered dictionaries for the conven- ience of scholars in these areas of research.