Choh-Ming Li

Choh-Ming Li or Li Zhuomin ( Chinese 李卓敏 , Pinyin Lǐ Zhuōmǐn ; * 1912 ; † 1991 ) was a Chinese economist and educator. In 1963 he was the first vice chancellor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong . He later taught at the University of California, Berkeley .

His best-known work is his Lishi zhongwen zidian ( 李氏中文字典 ), a character dictionary in which the Chinese characters are sorted according to their phonetic elements. In this form of arrangement, all signs composed of the same sound elements ( phonetics ) are in one place.

Works

Lishi zhongwen zidian. Shanghai: Xuelin chubanshe 1981

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Footnotes

↑ Already William Edward Soothill had created one at that time very common in English-speaking work of this kind: The Student's Four Thousand [Tzu] and General Pocket Dictionary.

personal data
SURNAME	Li, Choh-Ming
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Li, Zhuomin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Chinese economist and educator
DATE OF BIRTH	1912
DATE OF DEATH	1991

[1] Already William Edward Soothill had created one at that time very common in English-speaking work of this kind: The Student's Four Thousand [Tzu] and General Pocket Dictionary.