Chinese Etymology
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So That's What This Word Really Means!
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2012
"Fool" was not originally foolish, "take a loss" really does trace back to the pawnshop, "stay overnight" literally meant putting the bed down, and wh…
This Word Originally Meant That! 2
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2013
This Word Originally Meant That! 2 is the second volume of Xu Hui's popular book on the origins of Chinese words, published in 2013 by Century Wenjing…
A Study of Cognate Word Families in Excavated Texts
Zhonghua Book Company · 2024
Cognate words are words in Chinese that share the same etymological origin and are related in sound and meaning. Based on sound symbols whose original…
The Source of Ci Poetry
Nanhai Publication Company · 2024
Etymology research is a very old topic in traditional Chinese exegetics, and Chinese etymology is a discipline that seeks the original motivation for …