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Lin Yutang (1895–1976) was an influential Chinese scholar, linguist, educator, inventor, translator, and author of works in Chinese and English. Lin's Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage was his second lexicographical effort. From 1932 to 1937, he compiled a 65-volume monolingual Chinese dictionary that was destroyed by Japanese troops ...
The principal vernacular language of Hong Kong is standard Cantonese ( Chinese: 粵語, 廣州話, 廣東話, 廣府話, 白話, 本地話 ), [ 9] spoken by 88.9% of the population. It is used as a colloquial language in all areas of daily life, government, and administration.
The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong Cantonese Romanization Scheme, [note 1] also known as Jyutping, is a romanisation system for Cantonese developed in 1993 by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK). The name Jyutping (itself the Jyutping romanisation of its Chinese name, 粵拼) is a contraction of the official name, and it consists of the ...
Cantonese Pinyin (Chinese: 常用字廣州話讀音表:拼音方案, also known as 教院式拼音方案) is a romanization system for Cantonese developed by the Rev. Yu Ping Chiu (余秉昭) in 1971, [1] [2] and subsequently modified by the Education Department (merged into the Education and Manpower Bureau since 2003) of Hong Kong and Zhan Bohui (詹伯慧) of the Chinese Dialects Research ...
Outlier is a new Chinese-English dictionary that hopes to solve many of the problems I encountered. A team of language researchers in Taipei led by doctoral candidate Ash Henson have gone over ...
9:37 AM PDT • May 24, 2019. Comment. A long-awaited service for readers in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and some other overseas Chinese communities have finally come true: Amazon has just started ...
Hagfa Pinyim was developed by Lau Chun-fat (Chinese: 劉鎮發) for use in his Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese: 客語拼音字彙; lit. 'Hakka Pinyin Vocabulary') that was published in 1997. The romanization system is named after the Pinyin system used for Mandarin Chinese and is designed to resemble Pinyin.
2:54 AM PDT • October 7, 2020. Comment. Image Credits: Reverso. Language learning company Reverso is launching its desktop app for macOS and Windows. Like on mobile, it lets you access a ...