Characters for Reading Dunhuang Documents
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Summary
This book collects commonly read characters from Dunhuang popular literature and popular documents, including Dunhuang transformation texts, Wang Fanzhi's poems, and Dunhuang socioeconomic documents. It contains 1,199 head entries, arranged in modern Chinese pinyin alphabetical order, and is followed by a four-corner code index for lookup. The author's compilation goal is, by gathering relevant materials on commonly read characters in Dunhuang documents, to present years of research results, thereby on the one hand providing a new reference work for in-depth Dunhuang studies and on the other hand providing material for discussion and research.
Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Researchers and graduate students in Dunhuang studies, documentary studies, and Chinese philology
- Advanced enthusiasts with a strong interest in medieval manuscripts, the history of calligraphy, and especially Dunhuang documents
- Professionals engaged in the collation of ancient books and publishing/editing work who need to handle variant characters
- Upper-level humanities students who wish to strengthen their foundation in ancient writing and improve their ability to read original manuscripts
Not a good fit for
- General readers interested only in Dunhuang art or historical stories and without any need for character interpretation
- Entry-level enthusiasts looking for light popular reading or Dunhuang-themed fiction
Reading tips
- It is recommended to use this book together with reference works such as A Dictionary of Dunhuang Popular Characters, so that they may corroborate each other and build a more complete understanding of popular characters
- When reading, one may combine the book with specific Dunhuang document plates or transcriptions and understand the character examples in their original context
- It is not necessary to read it straight through; it is better used as a desk reference to consult and accumulate knowledge whenever difficult characters are encountered
About the publisher
The Commercial Press is a publisher known for classic works and academic publishing, with titles spanning Eastern philosophy, foreign literature, world history, social culture, and applied psychology. Its list includes classical commentaries such as Zhu Xi's Collected Commentaries on the Analects and Wang Bi's Commentary on the Zhouyi, as well as modern annotated translations like Zhuangzi with Modern Notes and Translation. In foreign literature it offers War and Peace and Crime and Punishment, while in world history it carries Braudel's The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II. Applied psychology is represented by Irvin D. Yalom's Existential Psychotherapy, and ethical texts include a Greek-Chinese-English edition of the Nicomachean Ethics. Its authors and translators include Zhu Xi, Wang Bi, Yalom, Braudel, and translators such as Huang Zheng, Zhang Yiling, Shen Dongyu, and Tang Jialong, balancing the editing of original texts with academic translation.
Contents
- 版权信息
- 前言
- 凡例
- 敦煌文獻通讀字研究芻議
- 敦煌文獻通讀字
- ān
- àn
- bǎi
- bān
- bǎn
- bàn
- bàng
- bāo
- bǎo
- bào
- bēi
- bèi
- bǐ
- bì
- biān
- biǎn
- biàn
- biǎo
- bīn
- bìn
- bǐng
- bìng
- bō
- bó
- bū
- bǔ
- bù
- cái
- cǎi
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- cāng
- cāo
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- cè
- céng
- chá
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- chāi
- chán
- chāng
- cháng
- chàng
- chāo
- chén
- chèn
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- chí
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- chōng
- chóu
- chuān
- chuàng
- chuī
- chuí
- chuò
- cí
- cǐ
- cì
- cōng
- cū
- cù
- cuī
- cuǐ
- cuì
- cūn
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- dā
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- dài
- dān
- dǎn
- dàn
- dāng
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- dǎo
- dào
- dé
- dēng
- dī
- dí
- dǐ
- dì
- diān
- diàn
- diāo
- diào
- dié
- dǐng
- dìng
- dòng
- dū
- dú
- dǔ
- dù
- duàn
- dùn
- duō
- duó
- duò
- é
- ēn
- ér
- ěr
- èr
- fān
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- fāng
- fáng
- fǎng
- fēi
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- fēn
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- fēng
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- fó
- fū
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- fǔ
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- gāi
- gǎi
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- gān
- gǎn
- gàn
- gāng
- gāo
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- gē
- gé
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- gèn
- gōng
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- gǒu
- gū
- gǔ
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- guǎ
- guà
- guān
- guàn
- guǎng
- guō
- guǒ
- guò
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- hé
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- hóng
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- huáng
- huī
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- huǐ
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- hūn
- huò
- jī
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- jiǎ
- jià
- jiān
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- jiāng
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- jiē
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- jīng
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- jiǒng
- jiǔ
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- juàn
- jué
- jūn
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- kān
- kāng
- kǎo
- kē
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- kěn
- kǒng
- kǔ
- kuà
- kuāng
- kuáng
- kuàng
- kuī
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- kuò
- là
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- lí
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- lián
- liàn
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- liáo
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- liè
- lín
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- lǚ
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- luán
- lüè
- lún
- luó
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- mǎi
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- mǎn
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- máng
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- mèi
- mén
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- mí
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- miǎn
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- mǐn
- míng
- mō
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- móu
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- nà
- náo
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- ní
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- niē
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- níng
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- nú
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- ōu
- pà
- pān
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- péi
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- péng
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- piān
- piāo
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- pín
- pō
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- qī
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- qì
- qiān
- qián
- qiāng
- qiǎng
- qiāo
- qiáo
- qié
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- qīng
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- qiū
- qiú
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- qún
- rán
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- rén
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- shēng
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- sǔn
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- tài
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- tāo
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- tè
- téng
- tí
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- tián
- tiáo
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- tīng
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- tóu
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- wān
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- wēi
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- wén
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- wò
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- xī
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- xiān
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- xiāng
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- xiāo
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- xíng
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- xiōng
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- xuān
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- xuàn
- xué
- xūn
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- yā
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- yǎn
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- yāng
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- yāo
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- yé
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- yōng
- yónɡ
- yǒng
- yōu
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FAQ
What are the main differences between this book and Professor Huang Zheng's A Dictionary of Dunhuang Popular Characters?
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About the author
Wu Yunhui is an author for whom only limited public information is currently available. The one work recorded in the database under this name is A Reader's Guide to Characters in Dunhuang Documents, classified under language and writing. Judging from its title and category, the book addresses problems of reading and interpreting characters in Dunhuang manuscripts, placing it in the field where the collation of excavated documents meets linguistic and philological research. Dunhuang manuscripts are vast in number and rich in popular and variant character forms, so the basic work of reading them through and identifying characters has always been fundamental to research on Dunhuang writings. A title focused on "characters for reading through" suggests that the author attends to the difficult characters and words actually encountered in reading, aiming to give readers reliable clues for recognizing and understanding them. Because information about the author's life, education, and positions is not found in the database, this introduction makes no conjectures and merely outlines the scholarly orientation indicated by the surviving work, whose value remains to be examined by readers and researchers in the field.
Wang Jiru: little is publicly known about his life, including his nationality, dates of birth and death, and educational background. What can be confirmed is that he is an author with a published work in the field of language and philology. Only one title under his name is currently known, namely Reading Characters in Dunhuang Documents. Judging from the title and its classification, the book is grounded in language and philology and deals with the deciphering and reading of characters and words in Dunhuang documents, making it a specialized work at the intersection of Dunhuang studies and Chinese character studies. Dunhuang documents are mostly manuscripts, dense with popular and variant characters and phonetic loans, so identifying characters and explaining their meanings has long been a difficult part of research; writing of this reference and textual-critical kind therefore requires solid philological training and familiarity with the primary materials. Public information is limited, and Wang Jiru's other experiences and scholarly activities are unknown, but the author and his work are presently known to readers mainly through this book, which may serve as a reference for the collation of Dunhuang documents and the study of Chinese characters and words.
