Application Chinese Dictionary (Large Print)

Author: Compiled by the Lexicographical Research Center of Commercial Press
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Publishing Date: 2002-12-01
Features: This dictionary is a completely new practical Chinese dictionary, primarily focused on language and culture, while also including encyclopedic entries. It contains over 50,000 single characters and compound words. The definitions are accurate, concise, and detailed, with abundant and diverse reverse proofs, achieving a balance of scientific rigor, knowledge, practicality, and standardization. It highlights contemporary characteristics, striving to reflect and align with modern social life, featuring numerous new terms and introducing new knowledge. It emphasizes cultural characteristics, revealing the historical or contemporary Chinese cultural connotations embedded in the words, including various cultural knowledge entries and dedicated cultural knowledge boxes. It focuses on application characteristics, exploring the specific usage or special meanings of different words. It provides over 1,000 usage notes to assist Chinese and foreign readers in learning and using Chinese. The dictionary includes hundreds of illustrations. This is a multifunctional language dictionary, in addition to standard features like defining, pronouncing, explaining, and providing examples, it also incorporates many new elements, such as labeling word classes, listing common measure words for nouns, distinguishing synonyms, and including reverse word listings, serving readers from multiple perspectives and levels.