| Change log entry 74857 | |
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| Processed by: | richwarm (2022-05-17 22:10:20 GMT) |
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<< review queue entry 70805 - submitted by 'goldyn_chyld' >> this one is ok as "see.." as far as i'm concernted. Z: 牛马等家畜的炭疽病。 ------------------------------------ Editor: I disagree, because the existing definition is inviting apps like Pleco to substitute the definition of 癀病 into the entry for 癀. So they would display the entry as 癀 {huáng} (dialect) anthrax What's the problem with that? Well, that definition would imply that 癀 is a word, since only words can be dialectal, not bound morphemes. But dictionaries imply that 癀 is a bound morpheme. So 癀病 is a (dialectal) word, but 癀 on its own is not. In single-character definitions, the phrase "used in ..." implies (or at least strongly suggests) that the character represents a bound morpheme. That's useful information that we don't want to throw away. I believe we should tell users whether the "headword" of an entry is a *word* or just a *building-block for creating words* (aka "bound morpheme"). ------------------ Example: 东陵县每年都会有一种叫作癀病的传染病暴发。 |
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# 癀 癀 [huang2] /see 癀病[huang2 bing4]/ # - 癀 癀 [huang2] /see 癀病[huang2 bing4]/ + 癀 癀 [huang2] /used in 癀病[huang2 bing4]/ # - 癀病 癀病 [huang2 bing4] /(dialect) anthrax/ + 癀病 癀病 [huang2 bing4] /(dialect) anthrax in livestock/ |