Chinese: Search and Display Hints
Chinese language records in the Library of Congress Online Catalog
are mostly cataloged using both pinyin romanization script and
Chinese characters. However, some older records are still in the
Wade-Giles system, which was officially replaced by pinyin romanization
system in October 2000.
In order to display records and view the non-Roman characters (like
Chinese), please see help on Displaying Non-Roman Characters in the Online Catalog.
CJK Compatibility Database
Use the CJK Compatibility Database to quickly
and conveniently replace non-MARC21 characters with MARC21 equivalents,
or a missing character symbol.
- Link
to the CJK Compatibility database
- More
about the CJK Compatibility database
Searching in Chinese
There are two ways to
search the records in Chinese:
- Enter search using romanized script (this
may be faster and more efficient)
- Enter search using Chinese characters (search first in Chinese
characters when you are unsure of the proper romanization of
a title or a name, or the word spacing).
You must use
the
appropriate Input Method Editors (IMEs) to enter searches in Chinese
characters (view more help on installing and using IMEs). *
No matter which method of searching you use, the resulting records will display
the romanized script along with the Chinese characters (as long
as both are present in the record -- see example above).
Tip for searching Chinese romanized script:
- When searching in romanized
pinyin script, pay special attention to the word division rules.
Personal and geographical names are aggregated together.
For
example:
Yang, Boda 杨伯达
Ouyang, Xiu 欧阳修
Zhongguo 中国
Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo Xiamen hai guan
中华人民共和国厦门海关
Hebei Sheng 河北省
- Title words should be separated. For example:
Zhongguo tong ji nian jian 中国统计年鉴.
For more details about the Chinese romanization system, see
the Romanization Tables at: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/romanization/chinese.pdf.
Tip for searching Chinese characters:
- When you are unsure of exact
titles, search unique title words in Chinese characters. For
example:
城镇化,军舰,西部大开发, etc.
- In case of personal names with the same pronunciation, search the name in Chinese
characters. For example:
instead of Wang,
Yi, type characters,
such as 王毅
Notes:
1) Subjects will not be searchable in Chinese.
2) Printing and saving work in exactly the same way.
The records will display the romanized script along
with the Chinese characters (when
both are present
in the record).
3) Emailing the record: if your search results contained
diacritic marks or Chinese characters, your email will not
contain complete information. Please choose to "save" or "print" your search results instead.
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