Dunhuang Popular Dictionary

Author: Huang Zheng
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Publishing Date: 2005-05-01
Features: Professor Huang Zheng's edited "Dictionary of Dunhuang Popular Characters," primarily includes popular characters found in written documents from the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang, with supplementary entries of clerical script, taboo characters, Wu Zhou new characters, and compound characters. The script types are unrestricted, including clerical script, regular script, cursive script, and semi-cursive script. The sources of its materials encompass Dunhuang documents preserved in countries such as the UK, France, Russia, and Japan, as well as in Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Gansu, and Zhejiang in China. The breadth of its coverage and the comprehensiveness of its collection have already reached a significant scale.