Modern Vietnamese-English Dictionary

Author: Lei Hang
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Publish Date: 1998-04-01
Features: The Modern Vietnamese-Chinese Dictionary is a newly compiled and published medium-sized Vietnamese-Chinese dictionary by the Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press. This dictionary contains over 50,000 entries, including most of the commonly used Vietnamese vocabulary, and strives to include new words, terms, and updated definitions from various fields such as society, politics, economy, foreign trade, law, science and technology, and cultural life in recent years. It also includes some loanwords. To save space, the selection of words avoids including those Chinese-Vietnamese words that can be understood by "inferring from the characters." Instead, a Chinese-Vietnamese pronunciation comparison table for Chinese characters is provided in the appendix, allowing the dictionary to accommodate the largest possible vocabulary in the smallest possible space. Additionally, except for words with special usage or typical meanings, we generally do not use example words and rarely list example sentences to highlight the characteristics of medium-sized dictionaries—small in size but large in capacity.
When compiling this dictionary, we primarily referred to The Vietnamese Dictionary, edited by the renowned Vietnamese linguist Mr. Huang Pi, published by the Hanoi Social Sciences Publishing House in 1988, and revised in 1992 and 1994. This is one of the largest Vietnamese explanatory dictionaries in Vietnam. It contains nearly 40,000 entries and is currently the newest and highest-quality Vietnamese dictionary, reflecting the latest achievements in Vietnamese language research, especially in lexicography. We adopted some of its compilation methods and principles, while also retaining some traditional dictionary layout features to meet the needs of Chinese readers and teaching habits in Vietnamese language education. Specifically, we referred to The Vietnamese-Chinese Dictionary published by the Commercial Press in 1960, making this dictionary scientifically organized, highly practical, up-to-date in content, rich in vocabulary, accurate in definitions, and user-friendly.