What books — or trustworthy websites — collate Sino-Japanese vocabulary (a.k.a. kango)?

1. What monographs compile *kango* 漢語?

2. What [websites](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Japanese_vocabulary#References) list *kango* ?

3. Please specify if your recommendations collate [Chinese-Japanese false friends](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese%E2%80%93Japanese_false_friends).

I am asking this for my boss, whose native tongues are Cantonese and Mandarin. She speaks professional English.

## Facts on 漢語

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-Changing-Role-of-Katakana-in-the-Japanese-and-Igarashi/27d435d675985c5e8c85670a3433e79b126caee7

![](https://d3i71xaburhd42.cloudfront.net/27d435d675985c5e8c85670a3433e79b126caee7/63-Table3.7-1.png)

![](https://d3i71xaburhd42.cloudfront.net/27d435d675985c5e8c85670a3433e79b126caee7/156-Table6.2-1.png)

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Distribution-of-goshu-classes-in-our-dictionary-and-corpora_tbl2_220746953

![](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yasuharu-Den/publication/220746953/figure/tbl2/AS:394045445689381@1470959163697/Distribution-of-goshu-classes-in-our-dictionary-and-corpora.png)

Group 1, Project 1

![](https://blogs.uoregon.edu/jpn315f20/files/2020/10/Cookpad-Proportions-of-Japanese-Word-Types.png)

1 comment
  1. This is probably not very useful but you can always look up the etymology of a work in wiktionary. It usually says if it’s derived from a Chinese language

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