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The previous character dictionary published in China was the Hanyu Da Zidian, introduced in 1989, which contained 54,678 characters.In Japan, the 2003 edition of the Dai Kan-Wa jiten has some 51,109 characters, while the Han-Han Dae Sajeon completed in South Korea in 2008 contains 53,667 Chinese characters (the project having lasted 30 years, at a cost of 31,000,000,000 KRW or US$25 million [4 ...
List of Kangxi radicals － a system of 214 components used by the Kangxi dictionary (1716), made under the leadership of the Kangxi Emperor; List of Unicode radicals － CJK radicals included in the Unicode Standard. List of Xinhua Zidian radicals; Chinese characters description languages － computer and SVG based description of CJK ...
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.
The Shuowen Jiezi is a Chinese dictionary compiled by Xu Shen c. 100 CE, during the Eastern Han dynasty (25–220 CE). While prefigured by earlier reference works for Chinese characters like the Erya (c. 3rd century BCE), the Shuowen Jiezi contains the first comprehensive analysis of characters in terms of their structure, where Xu attempted to provide rationales for their construction.
The List of Frequently Used Characters in Modern Chinese (simplified Chinese: 现代汉语常用字表; traditional Chinese: 現代漢語常用字表; pinyin: Xiàndài Hànyǔ Chángyòngzì Biǎo) is a list of 3,500 frequently-used Chinese characters, which are further divided into two levels: 2,500 frequently-used characters and 1,000 less frequently-used characters.
The Zhonghua Da Zidian (traditional Chinese: 中華大字典; simplified Chinese: 中华大字典; pinyin: Zhōnghuá Dà Zìdiǎn; Wade–Giles: Chung-hua Ta Tzu-tien; lit. 'Chinese Great Dictionary') is an unabridged Chinese dictionary of characters, originally published in 1915 by the Zhonghua Book Company in Shanghai.
Character dictionary (Chinese: 字典; Japanese: 字書), known as zìdiǎn in Mandarin Chinese, is a dictionary which lists individual Chinese characters (or kanji) and defines the characters' meanings, usages, and pronunciations. Character dictionaries are often arranged according to the shape of characters and usually include some rare ...
The scale of the existing large Chinese character dictionaries of other countries is as follows: (Dankook University News cross reference) China's Comprehensive Dictionary of Chinese Words: 23,000 characters, 370,000 words; Taiwan's Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Chinese Language: 50,000 characters, 400,000 words [2]