![]() This duality lies at the origins of many branches of classical Chinese science and philosophy, as well as being a primary guideline of TCM. Many tangible dualities (such as light and dark, fire and water, expanding and contracting) are thought of as physical manifestations of the duality symbolized by yin and yang. In Chinese philosophy, yin and yang describe how seemingly opposite or contrary forces may actually be complementary, interconnected, and interdependent in the natural world, and how they may give rise to each other as they interrelate to one another. “阳经(yángjīng)” and “阴经(yīn jīng)” in Seven Chinese-English TCM Dictionaries To identify an entry model for Online TCM encyclopedic dictionary, I compared the microstructure of the entries in the following five printed traditional medicine dictionaries: For example, some dictionaries only provide the English equivalents without an English definition for the lemmas and some do not cover all the basic TCM terms in their entries. But generally, they cannot meet non-Chinese users’ needs due to the lack of some indispensable information. ![]() To meet the requirements of TCM development, an increasing number of Chinese-English traditional medicine dictionaries have been produced at home or abroad in recent decades. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is gradually attracting more and more attention in the world. Middlesex University in the UK, the first ever university outside China to launch a traditional Chinese medicine degree, has now enrolled MSc students for more than ten years. In 2015, the Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to Professor Youyou Tu, who found the active compound from a Chinese herbal medicine Artemisia to treat malaria. ![]()
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