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Vocabulary Mandarin Chinese

The vocabulary contains 2120 meaning-word pairs ("entries") corresponding to core LWT meanings from the recipient language Mandarin Chinese. The corresponding text chapter was published in the book Loanwords in the World's Languages. The language page Mandarin Chinese contains a list of all loanwords arranged by donor languoid.

Meaning-word pairs
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Word form	LWT code	Meaning	Core list	Borrowed status	Source words

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Tang shi 唐詩 (Tang poetry), see Quan Tang shi.
Taohua shan 桃花扇 (Peach blossom mountain). By Kong Shangren孔尚任 (d. 1718). In: Scripta Sinica: Xiaoshu xiqu ji qita.
Tang huiyao唐會要 (Institutional History of the Tang dynasty) 961. Compiled by Wang Pu. Shanghai: Shanghai guji chubanshe 1991.
Tao Qian (132-194). Quoted according to Ciyuan.
Tong Yue fu 僮約賦. By Wang Bao 王褒 (fl. 73-48 BCE). Quoted according to Sagart & Xu (2001): History through loanwords: the loan correspondences between Hani and Chinese. Cahiers de linguistique – Asie orientale 30.1, pp. 35-36.
Wanguo gongbao 萬國公報 (The Globe Magazine). (1874 – 1883, analyzed by -> Masini 1993)
Wei shu 魏書 (572 n. Chr.). By Wei Shou 魏收. Beijing, Zhonghua shuju 1974. See also: Scripta Sinica, Ershiwu shi.
Wen xuan 文選 (between 526 and 531). Compiled by Zhaoming Taizi 昭明太子. In: Si bu bei yao. Taipei, Zhonghua shuju.
Xin Wudai shi 新五代史 “New History of the Five dynasties” (ca. 1070). Comp. By Ouyang Xiu 歐陽修. Beijing, Zhonghua shuju 1974.. See also: Scripta Sinica, Ershiwu shi.
Xin bian wudaishi pinghua 新編五代史平話 (1337). Shanghai, Zhongguo gudian wen¬xue chubanshe 21955. See also : Scripta Sinica, Xiaoshuo xiqu ji qita.
Wu shu吳書 “History of the Wu dynasty” (3rd c. CE). Scripta Sinica: Ershiwu shi: San guo zhi.
Xing shi heng yan醒世恆言 (1627). Edited by Feng Menglong馮夢龍 (1574-1646). Beijing, Renmin wenxue chubanshe 41989 (1. edition. 1956), 2 vls.
Xingshi yinyuan zhuan (Marriage as retribution – Awakening the World) 醒世姻緣傳 (ca. 1661). By Xi Zhousheng 西周生 (pseud. ?). Scripta Sinica: Xiaoshu xiqu ji qita.
Xixiangji zhugongdiao 西廂記諸宮調 by Dong Jieyuan 董解元(fl. 1190-1208). In: Liu Jian (ed.). Jindai hanyu duben 近代漢語讀本. Shanghai, Shanghai jiaoyu chubanshe 1985, 252-55 according to Ming, Jiaqing edition: Guben Dong Jieyuan Xixiangji 古本董解元西廂記in 8 juan.
Xi you ji 西遊記. Ascribed to Wu Cheng´en吳承恩 (ca. 1500-1582). Beijing, Renmin wenxue chubanshe 1973.
Xin shu 新書 (New Writings). By Jia Yi賈宜 (201–168? BCE). Si bu bei yao 9.5b. Chinese Text Project, Confucianism.
Xunshi pinghua 訓世平話 (15th c.). Ed. by Yi Byeon 李邊. Scripta Sinica: Xiaoshuo xiqu ji qita.
Xin Tang shu 新唐書 (1061). Comp. by Ouyang Xiu 歐陽修 and Song Qi 宋祁. Beijing, Zhonghua shuju 1975.
Xin kan Da Song Xuanhe yishi 新刊大宋宣和遺事 (ca. 1300). Edition: Shanghai, Zhongguo gu¬dian wenxue chubanshe 1954. See also: Scripta Sinica 2.0: Xiaoshuo xiqu ji qita.
Xunzi 荀子 (3. c. BCE). In: A Concordance to Hsun Tzû. Harvard-Yenching Institute Sinological Index Series, Suppl. No. 22. Reprint Taipei 1966. See also: Scripta Sinica, Shanggu Hanyu ziliaoku.
Yan Shigu顏師古 (581-645). Commentator of several classical texts
Yang Xiong (58 BCE – 18 CE). -> Fangyan
Yanshi jiaxun 顏氏家訓 (The Family Instructions of Master Yan) by Yan Zhitui 顏之推 (born 531). Scripta Sinica, Guji shiba zhong.
Yi li 儀禮. Comm. by Zheng Xuan (儀禮鄭注). Si bu bei yao 四部備要 Bd. 5. Taipei, Taibei Zhonghua shuju 1936. See also : Scripta Sinica, Shisan jing (The 13 classics).
Yi jing 易經 / Zhou Yi 周易 « Book of Changes » (9th – 6th c. BCE ?). Scripta Sinica, Shisan jing.
Yiqie jing yinyi一切經音義 (Phonetic and semantic dictionary for all Buddhist Sutras) (649) by Huilin慧琳 (737-820). Zheng Xu Yiqiejing yinyi : fu suoyin liangzhong 正續一切經音義 : 附索引兩種. Shanghai : Shanghai guji chubanshe 1986.
Yi wen lei ju 藝文類聚 (ca. 661). Comp. by Ouyang Xun 歐陽詢 (557-641). Zhonghua shuju, Shanghai bianjisuo bianji. Shanghai, Zhonghua shuju 1965. See also: Scripta Sinica, Guji sanshisi zhong.
Yi Zhou shu (ca. 4th- 3rd c. BCE) quan yi. Guiyang: Guizhou ren min chu ban she 2000.
Yongle dadian xiwen 永樂大典戲文 (Opera texts preserved in the Yongle dadian, an encyclopedia finished in 1408). Scripta Sinica, Xiaoshuo xiqu ji qita.
Yupian 玉篇: see Yuanben yupian and Songben yupian.
Yuan shi 元史 (ca. 1370). By Song Lian 宋濂. Beijing, Zhonghua shuju 1976. See also: Scripta Sinica: Ershiwu shi.
Yuan kan zaju sanshi zhong 元刊雜劇三十種 (30 Dramen gedruckt in der Yuan-Zeit) In: Xin jiao Yuan kan zaju sanshi zhong 新校元刊雜劇三十種. Beijing, Zhong¬hua shuju 1980. See also : Scripta Sinica, Xiaoshuo xiqu ji qita.
Yuefu shiji樂府詩集 (12th c.) edited and compiled by Guo Maoqian. Scripta Sinica.
Yuewei caotang biji 閱微草堂筆記 (Random Jottings from the Cottage of Close Scrutiny) (1789-98). By Ji Yun (1724 – 1805). Scripta Sinica: Xiaoshuo xiqu ji qita.
Zhan guo ce 戰國策 (3rd-1st c. BCE). Edited by Liu Xiang 劉向 (77/79 – 6/8 BCE). 3 vls. Shanghai: Guji chubanshe 1978. See also: Scripta Sinica, Zhu zi.
Zhang Wencheng張文成 (c. 651/7–721/730). Author of Tang-poetry, quoted according to the Ciyuan.
Li ji 禮記 commented by Zheng Xuan鄭玄 (127-200) (禮記鄭注). Si bu bei yao Bd. 6. Taipei, Zhonghua shuju 1966. See also: Scripta Sinica, Shisan jing.
Zheng Zi tong正字通 (preface 1670). By Zhang Zilie 張自烈 (1597-1673). Ergänzt von Liao Wenying 廖文英補. Beijing, Guoji wenhua chuban gongsi 1996.
Zhenghe zhenglei bencao政和證類本草. (12th c.) by Tang Shenwei (Full title: Chongxiu Zhenghe jingshi zhenglei beiyong bencao重修政和經史證類. 備用本草). Taipei: Southern Materials Center 1976, repr. of 1204 revised edition.
Zhou li 周禮. (Anon., Former Han-Dyn.). Comm. by Zheng Xuan. Edition.: Si bu bei yao Bd. 4. Taipei, Zhonghua shuju 1936. See also : Scripta Sinica, Shisan jing.
Zhou shu 周書 (History of the Zhou dynasty). By Linghu Defen (583-666). Scripta Sinica: Ershiwu shi (The 25 dynastic histories).
Zhuangzi 莊子 (4. or 3. c. BCE). In: A Concordance to Chuang Tzû. Harvard-Yenching Institute Sinological Index Series, Suppl. No. 20. Repr. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard UP 1956. See also: Scripta Sinica, Shanggu Hanyu yuliaoku.
Zuo Si 左思 (250 - 305). Wu du fu 吳都賦 (Wu capital rhapsody). Quoted according to the Ciyuan.
Zuo zhuan 左傳 (ca. 340 n. Chr.). In Legge (ed. und Übers.): The Chinese Classics. Vol. V. The Ch´un Ts´ew, with the Tso Chuen. London, Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press Warehouse 1872. See also: Scripta Sinica: Shisanjing.
Zhuzi yulei 朱子語類 (between 1175 and 1200). Taipei, Zhengzhong shuju 1962. See also Scripta Sinica, Guji sanshisi zhong.
Zi yuan字苑 by Ge Hong葛洪 (283-343) (Eastern Jin dynasty 263-420). Quoted according to Ciyuan.