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Dai Kan-Wa Jiten, the Glossary

The is a Japanese dictionary of kanji (Chinese characters) compiled by Tetsuji Morohashi.^[1]

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Bombing of Tokyo

The was a series of air raids on Japan launched by the United States Army Air Forces during the Pacific War in 1944–1945.

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Bopomofo

Bopomofo, also called Zhuyin Fuhao, or simply Zhuyin, is a transliteration system for Standard Chinese and other Sinitic languages.

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Chengyu

Chengyu are a type of traditional Chinese idiomatic expressions, most of which consist of four Chinese characters.

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Chinese bronze inscriptions, also commonly referred to as bronze script or bronzeware script, are writing in a variety of Chinese scripts on ritual bronzes such as zhōng bells and dǐng tripodal cauldrons from the Shang dynasty (2nd millennium BC) to the Zhou dynasty (11th–3rd century BC) and even later.

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Chinese character radicals

A radical, or indexing component, is a visually prominent component of a Chinese character under which the character is traditionally listed in a Chinese dictionary.

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Chinese characters

Chinese characters are logographs used to write the Chinese languages and others from regions historically influenced by Chinese culture.

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Chinese dictionary

There are two types of dictionaries regularly used in the Chinese language: list individual Chinese characters, and list words and phrases. Dai Kan-Wa Jiten and Chinese dictionary are Chinese dictionaries.

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Classical Chinese

Classical Chinese is the language in which the classics of Chinese literature were written, from.

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Collation

Collation is the assembly of written information into a standard order.

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Comparative linguistics

Comparative linguistics is a branch of historical linguistics that is concerned with comparing languages to establish their historical relatedness.

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Compound (linguistics)

In linguistics, a compound is a lexeme (less precisely, a word or sign) that consists of more than one stem.

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Dictionary

A dictionary is a listing of lexemes from the lexicon of one or more specific languages, often arranged alphabetically (or by consonantal root for Semitic languages or radical and stroke for logographic languages), which may include information on definitions, usage, etymologies, pronunciations, translation, etc.

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Etymology

Etymology (The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) – p. 633 "Etymology /ˌɛtɪˈmɒlədʒi/ the scientific study of words and the way their meanings have changed throughout time".) is the scientific study of the origin and evolution of a word's semantic meaning across time, including its constituent morphemes and phonemes.

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Fanqie

Fanqie (l) is a method in traditional Chinese lexicography to indicate the pronunciation of a monosyllabic character by using two other characters, one with the same initial consonant as the desired syllable and one with the same rest of the syllable (the final).

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Four-corner method

The four-corner method or four-corner system is a character-input method used for encoding Chinese characters into either a computer or a manual typewriter, using four or five numerical digits per character.

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Gojūon

In the Japanese language, the is a traditional system ordering kana characters by their component phonemes, roughly analogous to alphabetical order.

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Hanja–Hangul dictionaries

Han-Han Dae Sajeon is the generic term for Korean hanja-to-hangul dictionaries.

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Hanyu Da Cidian

The Hanyu Da Cidian, also known as the Grand Chinese Dictionary, is the most inclusive available Chinese dictionary. Dai Kan-Wa Jiten and Hanyu Da Cidian are Chinese dictionaries.

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Hanyu Da Zidian

The Hanyu Da Zidian, also known as the Grand Chinese Dictionary, is a reference dictionary on Chinese characters. Dai Kan-Wa Jiten and Hanyu Da Zidian are Chinese dictionaries.

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Haruo Shirane

Haruo Shirane (born 16 September 1951) is the Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Chair of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University.

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Historical kana orthography

The, or, refers to the in general use until orthographic reforms after World War II; the current orthography was adopted by Cabinet order in 1946.

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Japanese dictionary

have a history that began over 1300 years ago when Japanese Buddhist priests, who wanted to understand Chinese sutras, adapted Chinese character dictionaries. Dai Kan-Wa Jiten and Japanese dictionary are Japanese dictionaries.

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Jiyun

The Jiyun (Chi-yun) is a Chinese rime dictionary published in 1037 during the Song Dynasty. Dai Kan-Wa Jiten and Jiyun are Chinese dictionaries.

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Kana

are syllabaries used to write Japanese phonological units, morae.

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Kangxi Dictionary

The Kangxi Dictionary is a Chinese dictionary published in 1716 during the High Qing, considered from the time of its publishing until the early 20th century to be the most authoritative reference for written Chinese characters. Dai Kan-Wa Jiten and Kangxi Dictionary are Chinese dictionaries.

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Kangxi radical

The 214 Kangxi radicals, also known as Zihui radicals, were collated in the 18th-century Kangxi Dictionary to aid categorization of Chinese characters.

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Kanji

are the logographic Chinese characters adapted from the Chinese script used in the writing of Japanese.

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Kun'yomi

, is a reading based on the pronunciation of a native Japanese word, or yamato kotoba, that closely approximated the meaning of the corresponding Chinese character when it was introduced.

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Lexicography

Lexicography is the study of lexicons, and is divided into two separate academic disciplines.

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Meiji era

The was an era of Japanese history that extended from October 23, 1868, to July 30, 1912.

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Middle Chinese

Middle Chinese (formerly known as Ancient Chinese) or the Qieyun system (QYS) is the historical variety of Chinese recorded in the Qieyun, a rime dictionary first published in 601 and followed by several revised and expanded editions.

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Old Chinese

Old Chinese, also called Archaic Chinese in older works, is the oldest attested stage of Chinese, and the ancestor of all modern varieties of Chinese.

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On'yomi

, or the Sino-Japanese reading, is the reading of a kanji based on the historical Chinese pronunciation of the character.

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Oracle bone script

Oracle bone script is the oldest attested form of written Chinese, dating to the late 2nd millennium BC.

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Order of Culture

The is a Japanese order, established on February 11, 1937.

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Order of the Chrysanthemum

is Japan's highest order.

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Peiwen Yunfu

The Peiwen Yunfu is a 1711 Chinese rime dictionary of literary allusions and poetic dictions. Dai Kan-Wa Jiten and Peiwen Yunfu are Chinese dictionaries.

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Phototypesetting

Phototypesetting is a method of setting type which uses photography to make columns of type on a scroll of photographic paper.

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Pinyin

Hanyu Pinyin, or simply pinyin, is the most common romanization system for Standard Chinese.

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Reference work

A reference work is a non-fiction work, such as a paper, book or periodical (or their electronic equivalents), to which one can refer for information.

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Rime dictionary

A rime dictionary, rhyme dictionary, or rime book is a genre of dictionary that records pronunciations for Chinese characters by tone and rhyme, instead of by graphical means like their radicals. Dai Kan-Wa Jiten and rime dictionary are Chinese dictionaries.

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Sancai Tuhui

Sancai Tuhui, compiled by Wang Qi and his son Wang Siyi (王思義), is a Chinese leishu encyclopedia, completed in 1607 and published in 1609 during the late Ming dynasty, featuring illustrations of subjects in the three worlds of heaven, earth, and humanity.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dai_Kan-Wa_Jiten

Also known as Dai Kanwa Jiten, Dai Kanwa Ziten, Daikanwa Jiten, Daikanwajiten, Great Chinese–Japanese Dictionary, .

, Tetsuji Morohashi, Wade–Giles, Zhonghua Da Zidian, Zhongwen Da Cidian.

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