Vocabulary
This page contains word lists which can be used as with Pleco, Zdt or other Chinese-English programs that takes text files.
- Zdt files are with permission of Chris Fong (ZDT Main Developer).
- Full text documents can be found in another section of the wiki: Pleco Documents These texts can be used with Pleco's Document Reader.
Please write up a description of any word list, including what it contains, an estimate of level of difficulty, etc.
I prefer that lists be uploaded as “zip” files and linked here. “Txt” and a couple other file formats are not allowed due to security concerns and by recommendation of the DokuWiki development group. A single ZIP file with all the texts together is more time efficient for people to download as well.
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ZDT Files
You can use these in Pleco with some minor reformatting. You might want to shorten category names. You might also want to create a “top” category with the main name, and then subcategories with each chapter/unit, etc. The Conversational Chinese 301 below has a version already formatted like this for the Pleco.
Copies of the ZDT word lists are shared from the ZDT main site, courtesy of Chris Fong.
Note that the download links are not yet complete. Files can also be downloaded directly from the ZDT site Zdt Wordlist Index
From ZDT site
| Link | Format | Book Author(s) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beginner’s Chinese | Zip | ZDT | Yong Ho | |
| Bible Books | Zip | ZDT | Chris Simpson | |
| Colloquial Chinese | Zip | ZDT | P.C. T'ung; D.E. Pollard | |
| Integrated Chinese, 1st Edition | Zip | ZDT | Tao-Chung Yao | |
| Integrated Chinese, Expanded 2nd Edition | Zip | ZDT | Tao-chung Yao, Yuehua Liu | |
| Intermediate Chinese | Zip | ZDT | Yong Ho | |
| Kinesiska: Språket i Mittens Rike | Zip | ZDT | Johan Björkstén | |
| New Practical Chinese Reader, Vol 1 | Zip | ZDT | Zhang Kai, Liu Shehui, Chen Xi , Zuo Shandan, Shi Jiawei, Liu Xun | |
| Pimsleur Mandarin Unit 1 | Zip | ZDT | Pimsleur | |
| Pimsleur Mandarin Unit 2 | Zip | ZDT | Pimsleur | |
| Pimsleur Mandarin Unit 3 | Zip | ZDT | Pimsleur | |
| Practical Chinese Reader I | Zip | ZDT | ktmatu.com | |
| Schaums’ Outlines Chinese Vocabulary | Zip | ZDT | Yanping Xie and Duan-Duan Li | |
| The most common Chinese characters in order of frequency | Zip | ZDT | Patrick Hassel Zein |
Conversational Chinese 301
These flashcards were generated from ZDT. The files are in UTF-8 format. The first download has long category names, and a single level of grouping, suitable for ZDT. The second download has “CC301” as a top category and “01”-“40” as subcategory names and is more suitable for the smaller displays that Pleco runs on.
Submitted by cming in Pleco Forums at Pleco Forum Post
Conversational Chinese 301
Pleco Version of Conversational Chinese 301
Meditation Words
Most of these are gleaned from dictionaries, so are probably incorrect or too specialized for general use.
| 谢忱 | xièchén | gratitude |
|---|---|---|
| 冥想 | míngxiǎng | meditation |
| ānchán | 安禅[-禪] | <Budd.> v. reach peace and calm through meditation n. contemplative state (of the School of Dhyana, Zen) |
| cānchán | 参禅[參禪] | v.o. 〈Budd.〉 practice meditation |
| chán | 禅[禪] | b.f. 〈Budd.〉 (Sanskrit : dhyana); meditation; abstraction; trance |
| chándì | 禅地[禪-] | p.w. meditation place |
| chándìng | 禅定[禪-] n. | 〈Budd.〉 tranquillity and concentration of meditation |
| chánfáng* | 禅房[禪-] | p.w. 〈Budd.〉 ①monastic room ②hermitage; monastery ③meditation abode |
| chángōng | 禅功[禪-] | n. meditation |
| chánguān | 禅关[禪關] | n. meditation abode; room |
| chánhézǐ | 禅和子[禪–] | n. sb. who practices meditation |
| chánkè | 禅客[禪-] | n. monk who practices meditation M:²wèi |
| chánnuó | 禅那[禪-] | n. 〈Budd.〉 dhyana; deep meditation |
| chánsī | 禅思[禪-] | n. meditation ◆v. meditate |
| chántáng | 禅堂[禪-] | p.w. 〈Budd.〉 meditation room M:¹jiān |
| chánwèi* | 禅味[禪-] | n. 〈Budd.〉 pleasant effect of meditation |
| chányǐ | 禅椅[禪-] | n. 〈Budd.〉 seat for meditation M:¹bǎ |
| dǎchán | 打禅[-禪] | v.o. sit in meditation |
| dǎzuò | 打坐 | v.o.〈Budd./Dao.〉 sit in meditation |
| fǎjièdìng | 法界定 | n. 〈Budd.〉 Skt. dharmadhatu-dhyana; meditation |
| jièdìnghuì | 戒定慧 | n. 〈Budd.〉 discipline, meditation, wisdom |
| jìngdìng | 静定[靜-] | v. keep still and calm; sit in meditation |
| kūchán | 枯禅[-禪] | n. 〈Budd.〉 sit in meditation |
| miànbìgōngshēn | 面壁功深 | f.e. profound wisdom obtained from lengthy meditation/concentration |
| sānmèi | 三昧 | n. ①〈Budd.〉 samadhi (deep meditation) ②secret; knack |
| tánsī | 覃思 | n. 〈wr.〉 deep/profound thought; meditation |
| táochán | 逃禅[-禪] | v.o. ①refuse to practice Buddhist meditation ②become a Buddhist in order to avoid worldly affairs |
| xídìng | 习定[習-] | r.v. 〈wr.〉 enter into meditation and get rid of desires |
| xiūxīnyǎngxìng | 修心养性[–養-] | f.e. ①cultivate oneself through meditation |
| zǐwǔmǎoyǒu | 子午卯酉 | f.e. ①from midnight to noon and from sunrise to sunset ②from beginning to end; from start to finish ③reason; argument ④result; achievement ⑤〈Dao.〉 four optimum times for meditation |
| 坐禅 | zuòchán | sit in meditation |
| zuòchánwùdào | 坐禅悟道[-禪–] | f.e. sit in meditation and gain enlightenment |
| zuògōng | 坐功 | v.o. 〈Dao.〉 mastery of meditation |
| zuòjìng* | 坐静[-靜] | v.p. sit quietly for meditation |
Create a User Dictionary
You can create your own dictionary entries from vocabulary files by checking the “add to user dicionary” option on the import screen.
To import words, you can use “txt”, “xml”, or other formats. Go to the “Open Flashcards” menu selection and you see this screen:
Next, click on the “Import” button and you see this screen:
Check the checkbox at the bottom labeled: “Store imported defns in user dict”
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