引得

yǐndé
noun #62,485

Meanings

  1. 1 index (loanword from English "index")

Examples

Zhè běn cídiǎn hòumiàn fù yǒu xiángxì de yǐndé.
This dictionary has a detailed index at the back.
Tā biān le yī fèn "Èrshísì Shǐ Rénmíng Yǐndé".
He compiled an Index of Personal Names in the Twenty-Four Histories.

Tips

history
Sound-loan for English "index" coined in the 1930s by Yenching scholar (Hóng Yè, William Hung) for the Harvard-Yenching Sinological Index Series. In modern usage, 索引 (suǒyǐn) has largely replaced it — 引得 is now mostly historical/library-science terminology.
mistakes
Don't confuse with the verb phrase 引得 (yǐn de, "caused to") as in 引得大家哈哈大笑 — that's + the particle , not this loanword.

Stroke Order

yǐn