Talk:頭文字

RFV discussion: August–December 2021

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頭文字 (Chinese definition)

I actually made the same request last night, but on another page and in an embarrassingly wrong way. I apologise for that. So:

As I've mentioned before, "頭文字" is a Japanese word, but it has never been borrowed into Chinese. It is included neither in the 现代汉语规范词典 nor the 教育部國語詞典. I checked some online English-Chinese dictionaries, and I can firmly say that the most common translation for "initial" (first letter of a word or name) is "首字母". Nosog (talk) 06:54, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

References:

• http://dict.revised.moe.edu.tw/cbdic/
• https://dictionary.cambridge.org/zhs/%E8%AF%8D%E5%85%B8/%E8%8B%B1%E8%AF%AD-%E6%B1%89%E8%AF%AD-%E7%B9%81%E4%BD%93/initial
• https://www.wordreference.com/enzh/initial

• Moved here on behalf of the original poster from Wiktionary:Requests_for_verification/Non-English --Frigoris (talk) 10:02, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

Cited for the first sense "first letter or initial of a word". — justin(r)leung _{{ (t...) | c=› }} 21:53, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

• RFV passed for "first letter or initial of a word", but failed for "capital letter". — justin(r)leung _{{ (t...) | c=› }} 04:10, 10 December 2021 (UTC)