Modern Chinese – Cihai (Complete Four Volumes)

Author: Ni Wenjie
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Features:
1. Authority: This book is edited by Ni Wenjie, a renowned linguist and a middle-aged expert with outstanding contributions. It is primarily reviewed by Yang Naisi, a famous linguist, a distinguished researcher receiving special subsidies from the State Council, and a doctoral supervisor at the Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, which has elevated the quality of the book to a very high level.
2. Practicality: This book includes over 60,000 words and phrases, providing annotations and definitions while also addressing various problems readers frequently encounter in word usage. It is suitable for readers of all levels.
3. Standardization: This book references the latest editions of foreign dictionaries, striving for brevity and standardized definitions.
4. Novelty: The book selects words closely tied to the times, including over 10,000 newly emerged words and phrases from recent years. It also collects common noun and technical terms from more than 400 disciplines.
5. Convenience: The book uses standardized modern Chinese character types. It includes a phonetic table, radical index, and an index of common function words at the beginning, making it easy and quick to look up. It incorporates the strengths of various dictionaries for convenient searching: 1. Phonetic annotation; 2. Definitions; 3. Word class; 4. Example sentences; 5. Word formation; 6. Phrases; 7. Word combinations; 8. Sentence construction; 9. Nouns; 10. Verbs; 11. Adjectives; 12. Figurative terms; 13. Foreign words; 14. Synonyms; 15. Near-synonyms; 16. Antonyms; 17. Semantic field words; 18. Correlative terms; 19. Single-character words; 20. Two-character words; 21. Three-character words; 22. Four-character words; 23. Multi-character words; 24. Idioms; 25. Function words; 26. Content words; 27. Nominal-verb structure; 28. Sentence components; 29. Near-synonymous idioms. The phonetic annotations strictly follow the national pronunciation standards. Each meaning generally includes the functions mentioned above, making it unparalleled compared to other dictionaries.