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Unlock the Wisdom of Classical Chinese with Tamara Nikitina’s Dictionary
For any serious student of ancient Chinese history, philosophy, or literature, mastering the language of classical texts is essential. Tamara Nikiforovna Nikitina’s Dictionary of Ancient Chinese Hieroglyphs is a purpose-built tool for learners, drawing from primary sources dated from the 6th to the 1st centuries BCE. This period forms the foundation of wenyan (literary Chinese), the written standard used for millennia in China and across East Asia—including Japan, Korea, and Vietnam—for historical, medical, Daoist, and Buddhist works, as well as dictionaries and encyclopedias still consulted today.
Understanding wenyan is not only a key to the past: many of its grammatical structures survive in modern Chinese journalism, academic writing, and official documents. This dictionary contains 1,120 core characters, complemented by hieroglyphic indexes and a separate glossary of frequently encountered homographs compiled by E.G. Ivanova.
Whether you are a university student of Sinology or a self-taught enthusiast of Chinese culture and history, this reference will support your journey into the original texts that shaped a civilization.