The peculiarity of linguistic traditions of chinese studies in japan (bu the example of numbers)

This article is partly dedicated to “The Kuraisi Dictionary”, created by 60 collectives of linguists led by Professor T. Kuraisi, a Japanese linguist-sinologist and chairman of the Chinese Language Society. It is well-known that in general linguistics the method of studying homonyms, which is based on dictionaries, is widely used. The research material of quantitative composition and character of homonyms was taken from “Ivanami Tu: gokuoziten” - the phonetic Chinese-Japanese dictionary, released by the Ivanami Publishing House in Tokio in 1972, with the overall quantity of 37 thousand words. The article gives a broad overview of the definitions provided in the dictionary,given a semantic field of numbers from one to nine in Chinese, which can be used as a material for various studies of Chinese words, thanks to the listed grammatical information.