New Word Dictionary

Author: Shen Honggen
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: This dictionary contains 20,000 entries, far exceeding all similar books. Most similar books have between 10,000 and 1,000 entries at most. Insufficient word coverage not only fails to reflect the current state of new words but also leaves readers unable to find most of the words they search for, significantly undermining the dictionary's role in clarifying doubts. The New Words Dictionary includes newly coined words, old words used in new contexts, dialectal terms, loanwords, abbreviations, specialized terms, alphabetic words, extended words, loanwords by substitution, and parody words, among other categories. It also includes internet slang, truly earning its name as a "great dictionary." The New Words Dictionary not only uses Pinyin to annotate the headwords but also labels the part of speech for each word, which helps explain the meaning and, to some extent, the usage of the word. Parts of speech are categorized as nouns, time words, positional words, place words, verbs, adjectives, distinguishing words, state words, adverbs, pronouns, numerals, measure words, prepositions, conjunctions, auxiliary words, modal words, Chinese words, and onomatopoeic words. To classify and define each of the 20,000 entries is a task of immense difficulty, as can be imagined!