Description
Book SynopsisA Dictionary of High Frequency Function Words in Literary Chinese is the first comprehensive work on the subject that constitutes a new approach to teaching and learning by providing both a reference tool and a reader.
This dictionary can serve both as a reference book and as an anthology for teaching and learning literary Chinese (the premodern written language) and both ancient and contemporary Chinese culture. It differs from the traditional design of dictionaries in that it includes detailed explanations, with examples, for different uses of the graphs most often used to represent function words in literary Chinese. To facilitate teaching and learning through association, the early meaning, extended meanings, and borrowed meanings for each graph are provided, along with explanations supported by the various stages of the historical development of the graph and other relevant research. Each word is grouped into the primary word class to which it belongs, based on i
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
User’s Guide
Design of the Dictionary
Abbreviations
Entries
ān 安
ānsuǒ 安所
bù 不
bùyì 不亦…hū乎
dàn 但
ér 而
érhòu 而后/而後
éryǐ 而已
éryǐyǐ 而已矣
ěr 耳
ěryǐ 耳矣
ěr 爾
yún’ěr云爾
fēi 非
fǒu 否
fú 夫
fú 弗
gài 蓋
gǎn 敢
gǒu 苟
gù 固
hé 何
hé rú 何如
héqí 何其
hé wèi 何為
hé yǐ 何以
héyǒu 何有
hé 曷
hé 盍
hū 乎
hū’ér 乎而/乎爾
hūzāi 乎哉
huò 或
jī/jǐ幾
jiàn/xiàn 見
kuàng 況
mò 莫
mò. . . yú 莫……於
nǎi 乃 (迺/廼)
qí 其
qǐ 豈
qiě 且
qǐng 請
rán 然
ránhòu 然後
ruò 若
ruò ……hé 若……何
shì 是
shú 孰
shú yǔ孰與
sī 斯
sīxū 斯須
suǒ 所
suǒ yǐ 所以
wéi為
wéi 唯
wéi 唯…shì 是
wéi 唯…zhī 之
wéi 惟
wū 惡
wú 亡
wú 毋
wúnǎi 毋乃/無乃
wú 無
wù 勿
xī 奚
xìn 信
yān 焉
yé 邪/耶
yě 也
yǐ 以
yǐ wéi 以為
yǐ 矣
yì 亦
yú 于
yú 與
zāi 哉
zhě 者
zhī 之
zhū 諸
Glossary of Technical Terms
Bibliography
Index of idioms
