• The Zhengzitong (Chinese: 正字通; pinyin: Zhèngzìtōng; Wade–Giles: Cheng-tzu-t'ung; lit. 'Correct Character Mastery') was a 17th-century Chinese dictionary...
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    on hearing that the Jinyiwei had issued a warrant for his arrest. The Zhengzitong was published. The Polish Jesuit Michał Boym first introduced the heliocentric...
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  • Guangyun 26194 1039 Jiyun 53525 1066 Leipian 31319 1615 Zihui 33179 1675 Zhengzitong 33440 1716 Kangxi Dictionary 46933 1915 Zhonghua Da Zidian 48200 1968...
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    Ming dynasty dictionaries: the 1615 Zihui by Mei Yingzuo, and the 1627 Zhengzitong by Zhang Zilie. The imperial edict required that the project be completed...
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    pharmacopoeia and taught himself to read Chinese by studying the 1671 Zhengzitong (Correct Character Mastery) dictionary for five years. Its mo (貘) entry...
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    the number of residual graphic strokes besides the radical. The 1627 Zhengzitong ("Correct Character Mastery") also used 214. The 1716 CE Kangxi Dictionary...
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    to read it by tirelessly studying the traditional Chinese dictionary Zhengzitong. In 1811, at the end of five years of study, he produced the work Essai...
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    glossed as a synonym of xiatong (小通, lit. "small avenue/path") in the Zhengzitong dictionary, etc., and one instance of usage of "small avenue" occurs...
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  • Jiyun: 獸名), and later as the "tribe of southern barbarians" (17th-century Zhengzitong: 蠻屬).[citation needed] The Chinese-English dictionary of Robert Henry...
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  • dictionary with 12,158 character entries, 542-radical system, fanqie glosses Zhengzitong 1627 (Ming) Supplement to the Zihui character dictionary, 33,000 entries...
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    and Qing period dictionaries. The Zihui also formed the basis for the Zhengzitong, written and originally published by Zhang Zilie (張自烈) as the 1627 Zihui...
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  • era. The Kangxi Dictionary quotes an entry in the Ming dynasty lexicon Zhengzitong: 「不姓之不,轉注古音,音彪」 which indicates this old, uncommon surname is pronounced...
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    texts and quotations in classical texts. The similarly titled (1671) Zhengzitong 正字通 "Correct Character Mastery" (with zhèng 正 "right; straight; correct")...
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