The vocabulary of Manchu/Mongolian-Chinese textbooks in Qing Dynasty:From the perspective of Manchu Chinese
Produced during the Qing Dynasty,the Manchu/Mongolian-Chinese textbooks,bilingual or trilingual,contain valuable records on Manchu Chinese which is a significant component of the history of Chinese language.These textbooks provide new materials and sources for Chinese lexical studies and enable us to better understand the inner variation of Manchu Chinese both diachronically and synchronically.The large numbers of colloquial words in these textbooks also offer new entries and earlier evidences for the compilation of dictionaries such as the Hanyu dacidian(汉语大词典).