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A Glossary of Idiomatic Expressions in Chinese With this glossary, I've made it possible to search idiomatic expressions in Chinese simply by specifying a subject, keyword or feeling in English, single Chinese characters or entire idioms in Chinese.
Try entering words like
"selfish",
"free",
"waste",
"fool" or
"help", to see what idioms are listed. You can also search by Chinese syllables/characters according to Mandarin Pinyin-transliteration such as
"chu1",
"yang2",
"hu3",
"xiao3" or
"da4". The soft "y"-sound is transcribed with "yu" (e.g. "nyu3" and "lyu2" that are not to be mixed up with "nu3" and "lu2").
Babylon Pro version 4.0 will not show more than twenty matches per search -- older versions of Babylon will not show more than eight matches. In older versions of the software, you will also have to enter a blank space before the first letter of the syllables "mi1", "mi2", "mi3", "mi4", "dong1", "dong2", "dong3" and "dong4".
The Chinese characters are written in simplified Chinese (GB-coded) and pronunciation is specified according to Mandarin Pinyin. There are no explanations of the histories or stories behind each expression, since that would call for a lot more work, and the result wouldn't bee as easy to scan through as it is now.
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