Resources
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Chinese translations with standard Hanyu Pinyin romanization and Chinese characters for Firefly the TV series and Serenity the movie and comic books
Scripts
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Translations
- Finding Serenity: Anti-heroes, Lost Shepherds and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon’s “Firefly”
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- print anthology edited by “Shindig” writer Jane Espenson with Glenn Yeffeth (BenBella Books, 2005), includes “Unofficial Glossary of Firefly Chinese” and “Chinese Words in the ’Verse,” both by me, Kevin Sullivan
- From the back cover:
From what was wrong with the pilot to what was right with the Reavers, from the use of Chinese to how correspondence between Joss and network executives might have gone, from a philosopher’s perspective on “Objects in Space” to a sex therapist’s analysis of Inara, Finding Serenity is filled with writing as exciting, funny and enthralling as the show itself.
- Firefly Chinese Translations board
- by various fans on Haken’s Fireflyfans.net
- BrownCoats.com - Language - Chinese
- the “lite” version of the Pinyinary compiled by me on BrownCoats.com
- Firefly Chinese: A Guide to Speaking Mandarin in the Verse
- a blog by Jason Q. Ng that is in the process of analyzing one Chinese line per post
- Serenity and some Mandarin translations
- by tmhsiao in a LiveJournal entry
- Serenity: Those Left Behind #1, Serenity: Those Left Behind #2, Serenity: Those Left Behind #3 Comics translations
- by KernelM, with comments from others to these LiveJournal entries
- Firefly–Serenity Funsite
- has filk songs (song parodies) and crosswords with some Chinese by me; also has Firefly–Serenity Promotion section
Dictionaries
- ABC Chinese–English Comprehensive Dictionary
- ( ABC汉英大词典 [ABC Han4–Ying1 Da4ci2dian3]) edited by John DeFrancis (Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2003); ink-based; search by Mandarin in Hanyu Pinyin romanization or character radical/strokes
- Lin Yutang’s Chinese–English Dictionary of Modern Usage
- ( 林語堂當代漢英詞典 [Lin2 Yu3tang2 Dang1dai4 Han4–Ying1 Ci2dian3]) by Lin Yutang and The Chinese University of Hong Kong; text-based, Chinese Traditional/Big 5 text encoding; search by English, Mandarin in Hanyu Pinyin romanization (syllables only, but there’s also a search bar for words), or character radical/strokes
- Oxford Chinese Dictionary
- edited by Julie Kleeman and Harry Yu (Oxford: Oxford University Press [USA], 2010); ink-based; search by English or Mandarin in Hanyu Pinyin romanization or character radical/strokes
- Far East Chinese–English Dictionary
- ( 遠東漢英大辭典 [Yuan3dong1 Han4–Ying1 Da4ci2dian3]) edited by Liang Shih-Chiu (Taipei, Taiwan: The Far East Book Company, 1993); ink-based; search by Mandarin in Hanyu Pinyin romanization, Gwoyeu Romatzyh, Zhuyin, or character radical/strokes
- ChineseDic
- text-based; search by English or Mandarin in Hanyu Pinyin romanization (syllables or words) or characters; sound files; French version
- Zhongwen.com: Chinese Characters and Culture
- by Rick Harbaugh; image-based; search by English, Mandarin in Hanyu Pinyin romanization (syllables or words), character radical/strokes, or character total strokes; links to Cantonese and Japanese single-character pronunciations
- zdic.net
- text-based; search by Mandarin in Hanyu Pinyin romanization (syllables or words) or characters; also Cantonese and other Chinese single-character pronunciations; sound files; animation of how to write individual simplified characters; also the affiliated Longwiki for searching for single characters by radical/strokes
- Yahoo Taiwan Dictionary
- text-based; search by English or Mandarin in traditional characters; sound files
- English–Chinese Pinyin Dictionary
- ( 最新实用英汉拼音词典 [Zui4xin1 Shi2yong4 Ying1–Han4 Pin1yin1 Ci2dian3]) compiled by Qian Suwen (Beijing: New World Press, 1998); ink-based; search by English
- Chinese Character Dictionary
- by Thomas Chin et al.; image-based; search by English, Chinese (Mandarin in Hanyu Pinyin romanization, Cantonese in Jyutping romanization, and Hakka), Japanese, Korean, Unicode, and more (all syllables), or character radical/strokes
- Pop Chinese: A Cheng & Tsui Handbook of Contemporary Colloquial Expressions, 2nd ed.
- ( 话是这么说：汉英中国当代流行口语手册 [Hua4 Shi4 Zhe4me5 Shuo1: Han4–Ying1 Zhong1guo2 Dang1dai4 Liu2xing2 Kou3yu3 Shou3ce4]) compiled by Yu Feng, Zhijie Jia, Jie Cai, Yaohua Shi, and Judith M. Amory (Boston, MA: Cheng & Tsui Company, 2006); ink-based; search expressions by Mandarin in Hanyu Pinyin romanization or the English index
- CantoDict
- [focus on Cantonese] by Adam Sheik et al.; text-based; search by English, Chinese (Cantonese in Jyutping romanization or Mandarin in Hanyu Pinyin romanization; syllables or words), or Chinese characters (syllables or words)
Lessons
- The Signal podcast
- has a “How to Speak Chinese” segment on Mandarin phrases from Firefly–Serenity in the podcast’s season 1 and season 7 onward, and the site has a Chinese page with some Mandarin phrases with pinyin, Chinese characters, and sound files by Xiao Ka
- Mandarin Lessons
- free Mandarin lessons on Chinese-Lessons, including sound files for all syllables and tones (also Cantonese lessons)
- Conversational Chinese Online
- free Mandarin lessons on Dr. Tianwei Xie’s Learning Chinese Online resource site
- eLanguageSchool.net Learn Chinese
- free Mandarin lessons on eLanguageSchool.net’s Chinese site (multimedia portion requires free registration)
- Guide to Pronouncing Mandarin in Romanized Transcription
- on David K. Jordan’s site
- Convert pinyin tone numbers to tone marks
- on Mark Swofford’s Pinyin.info: A Guide to the Writing of Mandarin Chinese in Romanization resource site
- Patrick Hassel Zein’s Chinese and Linguistic Menu
- Chinese language and culture on Patrick Hassel Zein’s site