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'Comprehensive Chinese Word Dictionary'), also known as the Grand Chinese Dictionary, is the most inclusive available Chinese dictionary. Lexicographically comparable to the Oxford English Dictionary , it has diachronic coverage of the Chinese language , and traces usage over three millennia from Chinese classic texts to modern slang.
The Hanyu Da Zidian (simplified Chinese: 汉语大字典; traditional Chinese: 漢語大字典; pinyin: Hànyǔ dàzìdiǎn; lit. 'Great Compendium of Chinese Characters'), also known as the Grand Chinese Dictionary, is a reference dictionary on Chinese characters.
A page from the Yiqiejing yinyi, the oldest extant Chinese dictionary of Buddhist technical terminology – Dunhuang manuscripts, c. 8th century. There are two types of dictionaries regularly used in the Chinese language: 'character dictionaries' (字典; zìdiǎn) list individual Chinese characters, and 'word dictionaries' (辞典; 辭典; cídiǎn) list words and phrases.
Xiandai Hanyu Cidian (simplified Chinese: 现代汉语词典; traditional Chinese: 現代漢語詞典; pinyin: Xiàndài Hànyǔ Cídiǎn; lit. 'Modern Han Language Word Dictionary'), also known as A Dictionary of Current Chinese [2] or Contemporary Chinese Dictionary, [1] is an important [note 1] one-volume dictionary of Standard Mandarin Chinese published by the Commercial Press, now into ...
ABC Chinese-English Dictionary: 1996: First Chinese dictionary collated in single-sort alphabetical order of pinyin, John DeFrancis: A Chinese-English Dictionary: 1892: Herbert Allen Giles' bestselling dictionary, 2nd ed. 1912 A Dictionary of the Chinese Language: 1815–1823: First Chinese-English, English-Chinese dictionary, Robert Morrison ...
Officially issued online versions of the dictionary include the Concised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary [3] and the Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary (《重編國語辭典修定本》). [1] [4] [5] [6] The Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary includes 156,710 entries, [7] and was published in 1994. [8]
The compilers of the Concise Dictionary of Chinese, the linguist Yuen Ren Chao (1892–1982) and the historian Yang Lien-sheng (1914–1990), were famous Chinese-American scholars who worked in Harvard University wartime Chinese language programs for the War Department. Chao was a visiting professor at Harvard from 1941 to 1946, while Yang ...
Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; Wikidata item; ... A Dictionary of the Chinese Language; A Syllabic Dictionary of the Chinese Language;