thesaurus

Japanese: thesaurus
thesaurus

…This was two centuries later, but around the same time, Xu Shen in China completed the Shuowen Jiezi, which classified 9,353 characters into 540 parts. In Europe, books of this type began to appear in the first half of the 18th century and were called thesauruses. The most famous English thesaurus is that of Peter Mark Roget (1779-1869) (English Vocabulary Book, 1852), and in Japan, the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics has published the Classification Vocabulary List (1964). …

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Japanese:

…これは後2世紀であるが,同じころに中国では許慎が9353字を540部に分類した《説文解字(せつもんかいじ)》を完成した。ヨーロッパでは18世紀前半からこの種の書物が出始めて〈シソーラスthesaurus〉と呼ばれた。英語のシソーラスではロジェPeter Mark Roget(1779‐1869)のもの(《英語語句宝典》1852)が有名であり,日本でも国立国語研究所の編集による《分類語彙表》(1964)が出ている。…

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