Modern Chinese Common Character Dictionary

Author: Huang Qingchuan
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Publish Date: 2001-04-01
Features:
1. This dictionary is a small reference tool for general readers to look up Chinese characters.
2. The main body of the dictionary is arranged according to the "Positional Radicals Lookup Method," where characters are categorized under radicals and directly accessed in the text. An "Orthographic Index" is appended for lookup by pronunciation.
3. The dictionary includes approximately 10,000 single characters, including traditional and variant forms, and also includes a small number of compound words.
4. The dictionary is based on Mandarin or variant forms.
5. The definitions are precise, and the entries are comprehensive, reflecting complex modern Chinese phenomena as much as possible.
6. The symbols used in the dictionary mainly include:
- (word) indicates a compound word,
- "～" represents the character head,
- "-" in word annotations indicates the pronunciation of the character head,
- "△" is marked at the top-left corner of traditional or variant characters to indicate that they are treated as separate heads.
7. To reduce the number of entries, radicals are categorized by stroke count into 2-stroke, 3-stroke, and 4-stroke groups, with the specific category and stroke count noted to the left of the character head.
8. To achieve the best lookup efficiency with a single flip, the dictionary frames each page in black and marks the radicals and classification symbols for the single characters on that page.
This dictionary has three main features:
① In terms of layout: The main body is arranged according to the editor's invented "Positional Radicals Lookup Method," which successfully addresses the "three difficulties" of the current radicals lookup method—difficult to remember radicals, difficult to determine radicals, and difficult to count strokes—while achieving "instant lookup" and avoiding the previous inconvenience of having to go through multiple steps to find a character, which was time-consuming and laborious.
② In terms of content: Each character head...