Great Dictionary of Chinese (Popular Edition) (Popular Edition)

Author: Editorial Committee of the Popular Edition of the Great Chinese Dictionary
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Publishing Date: 2004-07-01
Features: The Great Chinese Dictionary collects the essence of ancient and modern Chinese linguistic and textual research and is a milestone in the history of Chinese lexicography in China. It stands out among the world's dictionaries with its features of "comprehensiveness" and "covering both ancient and modern, emphasizing origins and development." It has been widely welcomed and praised by readers and the academic community, winning the National Book Award and the China Book Award, and has been listed as a standard reference book of the People's Republic of China. In the popular edition, the following main features are highlighted: it retains approximately 20,000 common characters of ancient and modern Chinese from the "main edition"; the definitions and citations have removed overly obscure content from the "main edition," corrected obvious errors, and provided brief annotations for difficult examples, making it more concise, easy to understand, and practical; the main text has changed from radical-based sorting in the "main edition" to phonetic sorting, using simplified characters for typesetting, which better suits the reading habits of a broad readership. All these efforts aim to condense the essence of the Great Chinese Dictionary, making it affordable and accessible to a wider audience, so that the Great Chinese Dictionary can truly enter thousands of households.