Chinese character missing from dictionary :-)

[frank]

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

[M. Henri Day]

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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

Henri

[frank]

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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.
"Rare jongens, die Chinezen", as Obelix would say it...

Frank

[Flaminius]

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".

[M. Henri Day]

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....

Henri

[anders]

肥寶寶 说: 这些 罗马人 真 怪

[M. Henri Day]

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

Henri

[anders]

Should be him, acording to at least one of the translations.

[Stargzer]

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

Henri

Is that Asterix's good friend?

[anders]

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