Xinhua Dictionary (Revised Edition 2001) (Revised Edition 2001)

Author: Commercial Press Lexicographical Research Center
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Publishing Date: 2004-01-01
Features: Xinhua Dictionary is a medium-sized dictionary that primarily focuses on literature while also incorporating encyclopedic content, designed mainly for readers with intermediate cultural proficiency. This dictionary maintains its original characteristics, highlights contemporary features, reflects new academic achievements, and enriches content related to new technologies, which are the purpose and principles of this revision. It adds new words, phrases, and meanings, especially entries on scientific achievements. Xinhua Dictionary is a medium-sized dictionary that primarily focuses on literature while also incorporating encyclopedic content, designed mainly for readers with intermediate cultural proficiency. This dictionary maintains its original characteristics, highlights contemporary features, reflects new academic achievements, and enriches content related to new technologies, which are the purpose and principles of this revision. It adds new words, phrases, and meanings, especially entries on scientific achievements. It includes contemporary expressions rich in modern life, adding new terms in fields such as information, environmental protection, law, finance and economics, military, medicine, computer science, architecture, and life sciences, totaling approximately 7,000 entries. It corrects errors in spelling, pronunciation, and definitions. It improves the compilation format. It removes some outdated entries, numbering over 2,000.