| Unlike that of other dictionaries compiled at the Qing Dynasty,han i araha manju gisun i buleku bitheis the only one dictionary which has examples of usage attached to the vocabulary entries.Although there’re only 1714 of 12103 vocabulary entries has examples of usage,which constitude 14.16 percent of the whole book’s vocabulary entries,but these examples of usage come friom a variety of sources,46 books of classics,history,philosophy and belles-letters which are focused on The Book of Poems,The Analects of Confucius,and The Book of Documents had been used.In The han i araha manju gisun i buleku bithe,borrowed words’ name and the boooks’ name in examples of usage are mainly transliterated,while examples of usage are literal translated.Paraphrases and examples of usage in han i araha manju gisun i buleku bithe well balanced the concepts and the specific differences between context,in this way,vocabularyentries are easier to understand.The functions of examples of usage in han i araha manju gisun i buleku bithe are divided into three parts,containing “verifying vocabulary entries”,“semantic supplement” and “paraphrase assist”,which synthesize into an entirety by “vocabulary entries”,“paraphrases” and “semantics”. |