Ancient Chinese Dictionary: Century Edition

Author: Zhao Ying
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: This dictionary is suitable for readers with intermediate or above cultural background, as well as for general lovers of classical Chinese who wish to study and read ancient Chinese. The dictionary focuses on commonly used characters and words in ancient Chinese, including over 4,200 characters and nearly 10,000 entries, primarily sourced from classical Chinese poems and passages in middle school and college Chinese textbooks. Each commonly used character in the dictionary is accompanied by its traditional form, variant forms, character shape, and pinyin in square brackets []. Entries are arranged in brackets [], including pronunciation and definitions. For multi-character entries, definitions are numbered with ①②③. Characters that were different in form before simplification are listed separately, with distinctions marked as 1, 2, 3 for each character head.