Research on the Transmutation of Chinese Loanwords—Based on Modern Chinese Dictionary (7th Edition)

Abstract

 Vocabulary plays an irreplaceable role in a language. As an important carrier to record foreign cultures in vocabulary, loanwords are widely used in all aspects of society. Modern Chinese Dictionary includes loanwords from a variety of languages from the perspective of universal use. This paper takes the loanwords in Modern Chinese Dictionary (7th Edition) as the closed corpus, and analyzes the etymology, structure, word length, and other aspects while making blanket statistics on the loanwords. The representative words are investigated by word frequency and described from multiple perspectives.