Chinese character missing from dictionary :-)

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Chinese character missing from dictionary :-)

Postby frank » Tue Nov 01, 2005 10:11 am

Hi all,

I can't find find a particular character, and i hope somebody here can help
me out.

1. The character i'm looking for looks like the one in this link, but the 田-part at the right is to be replaced by 木.
2. The context is a description of a Dutch-Chinese pocket dictionary.
词典共收荷兰语词目8500馀*。
Or rather (since the text is in traditional characters):
詞典共收荷蘭語詞目8500餘*。
The asterisk indicates the place of the missing character.

I tried everything within my possibilities, but so far in vain. You're my last hope (he wrote, not without a sense for drama ;-).

Thanks in advance.

Groetjes,

Frank

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Re: Chinese character missing from dictionary :-)

Postby M. Henri Day » Tue Nov 01, 2005 3:49 pm

...

2. The context is a description of a Dutch-Chinese pocket dictionary.
词典共收荷兰语词目8500馀*。
Or rather (since the text is in traditional characters):
詞典共收荷蘭語詞目8500餘*。
The asterisk indicates the place of the missing character.
没事儿, Frank ! It might be a wee bit easier to understand that the dictionary contains more than 8500 entries of Dutch words and phrases if the sentences quoted above are amended as follows :
词典共收荷兰语词目8500馀条。...

詞典共收荷蘭語詞目8500餘條。
The graph «条» («條») is read «tiáo» and here means «item», «entry»....

Geen dank

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Re: Chinese character missing from dictionary :-)

Postby frank » Wed Nov 02, 2005 6:12 am

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没事儿, FrankThe graph «条» («條») is read «tiáo» and here means «item», «entry»....Geen dank
Toch wel!! Hartelijk bedankt.

On the one hand i'm a bit surprised that the character is simplified, on the other hand i started to wonder why i couldn't find the character in traditional dictionaries. Seems the radical of 條 is not 人, as i thought to be logical and obvious, but 木.
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Re: Chinese character missing from dictionary :-)

Postby Flaminius » Wed Nov 02, 2005 10:13 am

Seems the radical of 條 is not 人, as i thought to be logical and obvious, but 木.
I am to surprised to learn that. According to my 『新字源』 the character in question is composed of 木 and the rest to mean a straight long branch protruding from the trunk.

Oh, and the "rest of the character" is an independent character meaning "to stretch".

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Postby M. Henri Day » Wed Nov 02, 2005 3:27 pm

The so-called «radicals» are a real can of worms ! Morohashi, for example, follows tradition and lists both «条» and «條» under «木» (6-14486 and 6-14859, resp), whereas the 《汉语大词典》 lists «条» under «夂» (3-1199), but «條» under «人» = «亻» (1-1478). It is for reasons like these that most Chinese dictionaries contain a «难检字表», i e, a list of graphs that are difficult to look up. Reasonably enough, «条» is to be found in the list in vol 3 of the 《汉语大词典》. Obelix may have been right....

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Postby anders » Sun Nov 27, 2005 3:59 pm

肥寶寶 说: 这些 罗马人 真 怪
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Postby M. Henri Day » Sun Nov 27, 2005 6:07 pm

«肥寶寶» is, at any rate, a (string of) Chinese graphs missing from my dictionaries. Is that our dear Obelix, that ?...

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Postby anders » Sun Nov 27, 2005 8:47 pm

Should be him, acording to at least one of the translations.
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Postby Stargzer » Mon Nov 28, 2005 12:23 am

«肥寶寶» is, at any rate, a (string of) Chinese graphs missing from my dictionaries. Is that our dear Obelix, that ?...

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Postby anders » Mon Nov 28, 2005 7:41 am

Yes, that's him. féi bǎo bǎo might be translated as ”fat precious/darling baby”.
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