A Syllabic Dictionary of the Chinese Language information
A Syllabic Dictionary of the Chinese Language …
Title page of Williams' Syllabic Dictionary (1874)
Author
Samuel Wells Williams
Language
Chinese, English
Publisher
American Presbyterian Mission Press
Publication date
1874
Publication place
China
Media type
Print
Pages
lxxxiv, 1150, appendices 1151-1254
OCLC
1921655
A Syllabic Dictionary of the Chinese Language: Arranged According to the Wu-Fang Yuen Yin, with the Pronunciation of the Characters as Heard in Peking, Canton, Amoy, and Shanghai or the Hàn-Yīng yùnfǔ 漢英韻府, compiled by the American sinologist and missionary Samuel Wells Williams in 1874, is a 1,150-page bilingual dictionary including 10,940 character headword entries, alphabetically collated under 522 syllables.[1] Williams' dictionary includes, in addition to Mandarin, Chinese variants from Middle Chinese and four regional varieties of Chinese, according to the 17th-century Wufang yuanyin五方元音 "Proto-sounds of Speech in All Directions".
^Williams 1874.
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