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Subject: Re: ADVERBS!!! (And stuff :)
From: bamboo1
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 17:04:36 GMT
References: 1, 2
> there's a site on Chinese hànzì (though it is helpful for students of Japanese, too): www.zhongwen.com
> explanations there are quite short, but usually helpful. they follow the scientific etymology only vaguely, though, i think.
> another difficulty is, that those Kanji are ordered according to their full form, which may cause problems if the Japanese version is a simplified form.
>
> as for the adverbs. i don't think there's a list (or better to say: a dictionary) of adverbs anywhere on the web. use a basic dictionary. if you're talking about gitaigo/giongo (onomatopoeic words)... well, i didn't find an exaustive source, yet. but then i, too, would be interested ^^
The following book is fairly good as a onomatopoeic dictionary:
日英擬音・擬態語活用辞典
尾野 秀一 (編集)
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