500 Common Chinese Idioms : An Annotated Frequency Dictionary

ISBN-13: 9780415598934 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 328 str.

Liwei Jiao;Cornelius C. Kubler;Weiguo Zhang

Opis

This is a learner's tool presenting the 500 most commonly used Chinese idioms. With a practical bias, this dictionary will present: the idiom in both simplified & traditional characters, the idiom in pinyin romanisation, a literal English translation & English equivalents, two suitable example sentences, plus explanations & usage notes.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Technical Terms Employed in the Dictionary.  3. Dictionary: Entries Arranged According to Frequency  4. Appendices  Appendix A: Phonetic Index of the 500 Highest-Frequency Idioms  Appendix B: Stroke Index of the 500 Highest-Frequency Idioms  Appendix C: Frequency Chart of the First 1,000 Idioms According to The People’s Daily Newspaper Corpus  Appendix D: Common Idioms not Included in the Body of the Dictionary.  Appendix E: Additional References and Websites for Chinese Idioms

O autorze

The three co-authors are all involved in the teaching of Chinese as a second/foreign language.

Liwei Jiao is Lecturer in Chinese at the University of Pennsylvania. His publications include The Routledge Advanced Chinese Multimedia Course: Crossing Cultural Boundaries (co-authored with Kun-shan Carolyn Lee, Hsin-Hsin Liang and Julian Wheatley, Routledge 2009).

Cornelius C. Kubler is Stanfield Professor of Asian Studies at Williams College. He has authored or co-authored nine books and over 50 articles on Chinese language pedagogy and linguistics.

Weiguo Zhang is Emeritus Professor of Chinese Linguistics at Renmin University of China. He is currently Visiting Professor and Co-director of the Confucius Institute for Ireland at University College Dublin. He has published several books on computer language.