blue.seams
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Is pleco 2.0 going to have Etymology of characters. I find it very helpful when I know the etymology, I can remember the characters much better because of the deeper meaning. Perhaps if it's too much for 2.0, maybe a 3.0 then?
Etymology
- Thread starter blue.seams
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You probably already know about Richard Sears' site: http://www.chineseetymology.org/. Just FYI.
Sandra
Sandra
Not in 2.0, but possibly in a future release - we've been trying unsuccessfully to license an etymology dictionary for quite a while now, but thus far everyone we've contacted has turned us down.
A lot of those dictionaries aren't based on the real origins of characters, though - something like 90% of Chinese characters are 形声字, compound characters containing a radical and a phonetic component (which often doesn't even correspond to the current pronunciation), so unfortunately some of them take some liberties with linguistic accuracy for the sake of easy memorization.
A lot of those dictionaries aren't based on the real origins of characters, though - something like 90% of Chinese characters are 形声字, compound characters containing a radical and a phonetic component (which often doesn't even correspond to the current pronunciation), so unfortunately some of them take some liberties with linguistic accuracy for the sake of easy memorization.