Newly Edited Modern Chinese Dictionary (Vol. 1 & 2)

Author: Chief Editor: Ou Shouting
Publisher: Yanbian People's Publishing House
Publication Date: Not Available
Features:
1. Authority: This book is co-authored by experts, professors, and linguists from Renmin University of China and Peking University, as well as some members of the philosophy and social sciences department of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
2. Standardization: The New Modern Chinese Dictionary is a large-scale dictionary that primarily records colloquial Chinese vocabulary, designed for readers of all cultural levels. It includes approximately 66,600 entries such as characters, words, phrases, idioms, and set phrases.
3. Modernity: This dictionary serves to promote Mandarin and standardize Chinese, with improvements in character forms, word forms, phonetics, and definitions, making it more perfect and accurate.
4. Accuracy: The characters in the dictionary follow the General Table of Simplified Characters and the Table for Standardizing Variant Characters, jointly issued by the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China and the Committee for Textual Reform.
5. Comprehensiveness: In addition to general vocabulary, it also includes common dialect words, dialectal definitions, as well as certain common specialized terms, place names, personal names, surnames, and some rarely used characters.
6. Scientificity: The definitions are concise and accurate, with a rigorous and unified format, making it easy and quick to use.
7. Practicality: Single-character and multi-character entries are arranged in phonetic order, which is particularly helpful for word formation, writing, translation, and cross-cultural communication.
8. Richness: The explanations include contextual hints, meanings, usage examples, and comprehensive coverage of all types of words in which the character appears. This dictionary contains 66,000 entries and 3,700,000 characters. The meanings include: original meaning, ancient meaning, fundamental meaning, synonyms, antonyms, dialectal meaning, written meaning, colloquial meaning; phonetics include: original pronunciation, homophones, multiple pronunciations, variant readings; character forms include: current form, variant forms, similar forms, radicals, strokes, structure, and methods of character formation; the explanation section includes: homophones, multiple pronunciations, identical forms, parts of speech, sentence examples, and multiple meanings; entry definitions: brief, scientific, fluent, easy to understand, and popular.