As a result of the National Social Science Foundation Project hosted by Professor Zhao Hong for several decades, the Dictionary of the Non-Classical Word in Turpan Manuscripts was published by Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House in December 2019 after long expectations. As for the form of a dictionary, it draws out the non-classical word in Turpan Manuscripts, and collects extensive materials. Furthermore, the practice of writing is fine and appropriate, and the collected glyphs are also full and rich. So, it shows us the whole appearance of using the non-classical word among the people in Turpan. It is a classic of this international study——Turpan Studies. This paper briefly introduces the dictionary’s practice, features, value and some shortcomings so that scholars can understand the dictionary better.

The study of the non-classical words in Dunhuang Manuscripts mainly focuses on the process of the analysis in the whole words. In the meantime, the component analysis should be another way to describe the influences of their variation to the formation, development and changing of non-classical words. In this paper, there are five sections to demonstrate the statistical study. Section one is elementary information about the study of non-classical words in Dunhuang Manuscripts which provides a brief introduction to the audience. The source of materials, the basis and methods of operation, and some particular issues are mentioned in section two. In the third and fourth section, charts and diagrams are used to illustrate the words sample set in relation to component variants, giving an explicit presentation about what changes had happened in the same component, and the relationship between components and their variants. The last section is a conclusion about what we had done in the study and what we need to pay more attention to in the future. The chiefly task of the study is to establish a visualized statistical database of component variations quantity statistics by means of components decomposing and classifying. The conditions of diachronic change and synchronic variation in components of non-classical words in Dunhuang Manuscripts can be shown distinctly. It also makes preparation for further studies on individual word, its evolvement rule and other relative research.