An apparatus for analyzing Chinese according to one aspect of the present invention includes a dependency structure analyzer analyzing a dependency relationship between words by extracting a parent word being a dependency destination of each of the words and a child word being a dependent from each of the words. The words are obtained by dividing a Chinese sentence. The apparatus also includes a lihe-word processor referring to lihe-word information that includes a first word and capable of being a part of a lihe-word and a second word forming the lihe-word with the first word. The lihe-word processor detects the first word and the second word from the words analyzed, and then changes a dependency destination of a word depending on both the first word and the second word to the lihe-word formed by combining the first word with the second word.
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