Student Universal Cartoon Dictionary

Author: Lin Yanfeng, Huang Yingni (editors)
Publisher: Jilin Audio-Visual Publishing House
Publication Date: 2001-05-01
Features: This book selects and compiles over 3,500 commonly and sub-often-used Chinese characters, listing their common words and some new words under separate entries. Outdated, infrequent, and obscure characters are excluded. The book caters to readers of all levels. Its outstanding features are:
1. Illustrations and Text: Vivid and Engaging
Each Chinese character is paired with a vivid cartoon illustration. The combination of characters with captivating images stimulates readers' interest in Chinese characters, words, and related knowledge through perceptual thinking, thereby inspiring and enhancing their imagination and creativity. This allows readers to form a strong impression of characters and their meanings, especially in words, during brief consultations, facilitating understanding, mastery, and memorization, leading to optimal cognitive outcomes. The purpose of consulting a dictionary is often to find out specific characters, words, and meanings, driven by passive motivation. However, curiosity and interest are the direct driving forces that activate cognitive engagement. The novel illustrated dictionary design easily ignites readers' desire for knowledge, attracting them to explore other characters, words, and images after consulting one, transforming passive consultation into active engagement and fleeting interest into sustained enthusiasm. Actively flipping through the dictionary helps readers continuously expand their reserves of knowledge in characters, words, sentences, and passages, making them "wealthy in knowledge."
2. Comprehensive Functionality
The book innovatively integrates 16 common functions organically and scientifically, making it convenient and efficient for readers. These include: syllables, Chinese characters, phonetic order, radicals, strokes, character structure, character formation methods, Wubi input method, stroke order, character definitions, word explanations, and bilingual (Chinese-English) word comparisons. Additionally, Chinese characters are placed within grid frames, aiding readers in understanding and mastering the spatial structure of characters, thereby acquiring some calligraphy knowledge and laying a solid foundation for writing characters well.
3. Authoritative and Reliable
The book invites language and character researchers from over a dozen key university Chinese departments to participate in topic planning and manuscript writing, ensuring its quality. The content is detailed, the language is fluent; the definitions are accurate, authoritative, concise, rich in knowledge, highly condensed, broadly applicable, and serves as an indispensable reference for university and college teachers and students, primary and secondary school students, military personnel, public security, judicial, and procuratorial officers, cadres, workers, computer researchers, and computer operators.