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English: Includes information on the perfume manufacturing process and a brief overview of the history of California Perfume Co. ... File history. Click on a date ...
A Chinese-English Dictionary: 1892: Herbert Allen Giles' bestselling dictionary, 2nd ed. 1912 A Dictionary of the Chinese Language: 1815–1823: First Chinese-English, English-Chinese dictionary, Robert Morrison: A Syllabic Dictionary of the Chinese Language: 1874: First Chinese-English dictionary to include regional pronunciations, Samuel ...
First Chinese dictionary/encyclopedia c. 2nd cent. BCE: Han dynasty: Shiben: First Chinese encyclopedia of origins, largely a lost work, but later partially reconstructed c. 222 CE: Cao Wei: Huanglan: First Chinese leishu encyclopedia, for Emperor Cao Pi, lost work, with only fragments surviving 624: Tang dynasty: Yiwen Leiju
The perfume references are part of a larger text called Brihat-Samhita written by Varāhamihira, an Indian astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer living in the city of Ujjain. He was one of the ‘nine jewels’ in the court of Vikramaditya. The perfume portion mainly deals with the manufacture of perfumes to benefit ‘royal personages’.
The history of Lin Yutang's Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage began in late 1965, when Lin and Li Choh-ming, the founding Vice-Chancellor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, made plans for compiling a new Chinese-English dictionary as a "lasting contribution to knowledge". [5]
The Cihai is a semi-encyclopedic dictionary and enters Chinese words from many fields of knowledge, such as history, science, mathematics, philosophy, medicine, and law. Chinese lexicography dichotomizes two kinds of dictionaries : traditional zìdiǎn ( 字典 , lit. "character/logograph dictionary") for written Chinese characters and modern ...
A Chinese–English Dictionary (1892), compiled by the British consular officer and sinologist Herbert Allen Giles (1845–1935), is the first Chinese–English encyclopedic dictionary. [1] Giles started compilation after being rebuked for criticizing mistranslations in Samuel Wells Williams ' (1874) A Syllabic Dictionary of the Chinese ...
First Chinese dictionary/encyclopedia c. 2nd cent. BCE: Han dynasty: Shiben: First Chinese encyclopedia of origins, largely a lost work, but later partially reconstructed c. 222 CE: Cao Wei: Huanglan: First Chinese leishu encyclopedia, for Emperor Cao Pi, lost work, with only fragments surviving 624: Tang dynasty: Yiwen Leiju