Miandianguan Zazi Database

Posted：2025.03.25

Hideo SAWADA

https://miandianguan.aa-ken.jp/

This resource is an online database of the contents related to
Miandian-A in Chapter 3 of Prof. Tatsuo Nishida’s (1972) A Study of the Burmese–Chinese Vocabulary Mien-Tien-Kuan I-Yu: An Introduction to Burmese Linguistics, a seminal work on the vocabulary created during the Ming dynasty.

*This content is published as an outcome of Information Resources Center (IRC) Project.

This project was featured in a topical article on the IRC website, as quoted below.

In the IRC project titled “Construction of Miandianguan Zazi database,” we released a resource called “Miandianguan Zazi database.” This is an online searchable database of the Miantian language A/B data in the following two research publications that deal with “Miandianguan Zazi,” Miantian (Burmese) – Chinese bilingual lexicons compiled in Ming and Qing Dynasties of China.

– Nishida, Tatsuo (1972) A Study of the Burmese-Chinese Vocabulary Mien-Tien-Kuan I-Yu: An Introduction to Burmese Linguistics, Chapter 3
– Ono, Toru (1967) “Decipherment of the Sino-Burmese vocabulary in the Ching dynasty”

You can search using multiple transcription methods. A special character input helper is available for entering characters that are hard to input directly from the keyboard. Search results can be sorted by various keys.

(Written by Sawada HIDEO and Mayumi ADACHI)