Colloquialisms Dictionary (New Edition)

Author: Wen Ruiheng, Editor-in-Chief
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Publishing Date: 2005-03-01
Features: A language tool book tailor-made for students' college entrance and high school entrance exams, once best-selling across the country with a sales volume of 1,200,000 copies. In terms of content, the old version has been optimized according to the new teaching requirements, emphasizing innovation, origin, cultivation, and practicality. In terms of form, the new layout with double-color printing is adopted to achieve solemnity, elegance, liveliness, and novelty. Entries. This book includes over 2,200 entries, primarily focusing on common and frequently used idioms for readers with primary and secondary cultural levels in reading and writing. Entries consist of main entries and subentries. Main entries have annotations and example sentences, while subentries are marked with "also as" after the main entries. Each main entry has no more than two subentries, and subentries do not provide examples or separate entries. Typography. The fonts used in this book are based on the "Total List of Simplified Characters" compiled by the National Language and Character Working Committee and the "List for the Standardization of Variant Characters" jointly issued by the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China and the Committee for the Reform of Chinese Characters. Definitions. First, difficult characters and words in the entries are explained, followed by the explanation of the entire meaning. Definitions are accurate and concise, without considering etymology, but relevant allusions related to understanding the meaning should be appropriately explained. Phonetic Transcription. Difficult characters and easily mispronounced characters in the entries are transcribed using Pinyin. Example Sentences. Each entry has an example sentence to assist in explaining the meaning of the entry. The source of example sentences is primarily the book itself, with priority given to famous works from ancient and modern masters and well-known authors, but not excluding general works (including newspapers and magazines). Entries with healthy content, good terms, and standardized language and characters are used. Example sentences from famous works and works with certain recognition are annotated with their sources, while other works, to save space, are only marked as "Book," "Newspaper," or "Magazine." Arrangement. Entries are arranged in the order of Pinyin phonetic sequence. For entries with the same initial sound and rhyme, the order is determined by tone (yin, yang, up, down). If the initial sound, rhyme, and tone are all the same, the order is determined by the stroke number and stroke order (horizontal, vertical, hook, dot, fold) of the initial character. If the initial characters are completely the same, the order is determined by the phonetic sequence of the second character, and so on. Index. An "Index of Entry Initial Character Stroke Number" is appended at the end of the dictionary for reference.