A Research on the Manchu-Chinese Bilingual Comparative Characteristics of the Yu Zhi Zeng Ding Qing Wen Jian Dictionary

Yu Zhi Zeng Ding Qing Wen Jian was the first official Manchu-Chinese bilingual dictionary of the Qing Dynasty. It added Chinese translation to the entries, employed Chinese characters to indicate the pronunciation of Manchu words, and utilized Manchu words to mark the pronunciation of Chinese words based on Yu Zhi Qing Wen Jian. Yu Zhi Zeng Ding Qing Wen Jian added 6,904 new entries, accounting for 37.05% of the total number of words. After the dictionary changed from Manchu monolinguals to Manchu-Chinese bilingual mode, it brought about great changes in the editing classification pattern and word collection, which not only inherited ancient Chinese dictionaries, but also had a profound impact on the editing of later Minority-Chinese bilingual and multilingual dictionaries.