Concise Dictionary of Common Characters in Ancient Chinese

Author: Gao Hong
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Publish Date: 1999-09-01
Features: This book is a new reference tool for learning ancient Chinese. The entire dictionary includes 2,153 single characters, basically covering the commonly used characters in classical Chinese texts from middle school Chinese courses. For each character head, the dictionary first provides pronunciation, then indicates the ancient form of the character, and marks the traditional or variant characters in parentheses after the simplified form. Under each character head, there are related sections such as form analysis, meaning, phonetic loanwords, compound words, notes, and distinctions. At the beginning of the book, there is a stroke index and a Pinyin index, and at the end, there is a brief overview of classical Chinese grammar. This book is rich in information and highly practical.