Chinese Mini Dictionary (Cihai Edition) New Edition

Author: Yang Rongrong
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: A language tool book tailor-made for students' college entrance and high school entrance exams. It was once best-selling across the country, with a sales volume of 120,000 copies. The new edition optimizes the old version based on the latest teaching requirements, emphasizing innovation, origin, cultivation, and practicality. In terms of design, it uses a fashionable new layout with double-color printing to achieve solemnity, elegance, liveliness, and novelty. The set consists of 12 volumes. This dictionary is compiled for readers with a medium level of education, containing nearly 9,000 characters. Standard characters are listed, with corresponding traditional characters and variant characters not listed separately but appended in small print after the listed characters (()) indicates traditional characters, [] indicates variant characters. A standard character may correspond to several traditional characters or variant characters, which are listed under different meanings. The listed characters are annotated with Pinyin. For characters with multiple pronunciations, they are handled according to the "Table for the Review of Variants in the Pronunciation of Common Chinese Words" published by the State Language Commission and others. Definitions are concise and appropriate. Polysemous characters are explained in separate items (①②③). For characters that are not suitable for separate definitions, examples are provided to illustrate different types of usage, helping readers understand various applications. Examples are separated by "|", and the listed characters in examples are replaced with "~". The main text is arranged in Pinyin order. This dictionary includes a "Stroke Index" that lists all listed characters as well as the appended traditional and variant characters. The appendix includes the "Phonetic Scheme of Chinese" and the "Table for the Use of Punctuation Marks."