New Concept Primary School Proverb Dictionary

Author: Xu Ping (Editor-in-Chief) / Wen Xiang et al. (Editors)
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: This book is designed for primary school students, primary school Chinese language educators, and proverbs enthusiasts. It includes proverbs that are close to students' lives, commonly used, exemplary, and vivid, serving as an enlightening and moralizing tool. The entries are organized according to students' learning patterns and popular preferences, divided into 46 categories and 62 thematic units. Based on primary school students' reading habits, pinyin phonetic annotations are provided for difficult, uncommon, or easily mispronounced characters. The definitions first explain difficult words or phrases, then the overall meaning, and finally the metaphorical or extended meanings. The book creates contexts in the form of "Mao Mao's Diary" or "Harry's Diary," demonstrating the use of proverbs in spoken or written language in a lively, interesting, and relatable way to students. For proverbs with the same or similar meanings but different written forms, the common form is used as the main entry. Those with high usage frequency are optionally listed as sub-entries, marked as "also as" or "also" without separate indexing. At the end of the book, there is a phonetic index of the first characters of all main entries, making it convenient for reference. The column settings and symbols are also provided.