Expanding the dictionary database

Have you ever visited this website looking for a word’s meaning, only to leave empty-handed? As the website’s creators, we have no doubt that searches in this dictionary can end that way. Although today, November 12, 2024, it contains meanings for 196,656 words, it is still far from comprehensive. 

If you have encountered Chinese words whose Russian meanings you could not find anywhere, however hard you searched, or if you regularly look up Chinese words and record your findings in notebooks, and if you are willing to share your discoveries with colleagues, we encourage you to do so through this website’s dictionary by sending the glossaries you compile in whatever way suits you. We therefore ask all users wishing to contribute to the Chinese–Russian dictionary database to read the following instructions. Following them will prevent unnecessary work both for those submitting new entries and for the dictionary database administrator who processes them.

In the word field, type or paste from the clipboard a word written in characters that is absent from the dictionary database. In our example, this will be 黄岩岛. Next, enter the word’s pronunciation in Pinyin with numerical tone marks; for our example this will be huang2 yan2 dao3.

In the Russian meaning text area, our example will contain the following definition:

острова Хуанъянь, риф Скарборо (в Южно-Китайском море), т. ж. — 民主礁 (букв.: «Риф Демократии»)

Recording a word’s pronunciation in Pinyin is a mandatory part of a dictionary entry, since individual characters in the word may have alternative readings. Whether to include an English meaning is entirely up to the contributor.

Please write words correctly, observing spelling and grammar rules. The dictionary entry’s format is of secondary importance. If you edit the entry locally rather than through the web interface, it makes sense to create tables structured as «Chinese word – Pinyin – Russian meaning – English meaning», entering the dictionary data in the same order (see the example below).

Chinese word	Pinyin	Russian meaning	English meaning
黄岩岛	huang2 yan2 dao3	острова Хуанъянь, риф Скарборо (в Южно-Китайском море), т. ж. — 民主礁 (букв.: «Риф Демократии»)	Huangyan Island, Scarborough Shoal (in the South China Sea), a. k. a. 民主礁 (lit. 'Democracy Reef')

Please send completed tables to the Administrator at: stas@chinese-russian.com.

Friends and colleagues, there are 78 days until Chinese New Year, and only 3,344 dictionary entries until we reach 200 000. We invite you to enter the Year of the Snake with a snake of five zeros!