New Word Dictionary

Author: He Guowei
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Publish Date: 2003-04-01
Features: This dictionary is a small-scale lexical reference work that includes approximately 2,400 newly coined Chinese words and phrases used extensively in the past decade, especially in the last five years. These words are characterized by "new appearance, new meaning, and wide usage." When selecting words for this dictionary, the compilers collected and organized a large amount of written and spoken materials, noting that these words have relatively new appearances, meanings, and usage. As a result, they have made every effort to include these words. Some words have been in use for a while, but due to their high frequency of use and the emergence of new meanings and usages in their application—particularly the reuse of old words with new meanings, the repurposing of old words, or the regeneration of new meanings in new words—their inclusion, documentation, and description help fully reflect the realities of language life and objectively describe actual language usage. This serves as a valuable resource for students and the general public to understand the current trends in word usage, as well as for research in lexical studies, school language teaching, sociological research, ethnological research, and other fields.