Student Antonym Dictionary

Author: He Guowei
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: The main readers of this dictionary are primary and secondary school students, Chinese language teachers, or readers with a medium level of education. The dictionary includes over 3,600 antonym pairs with opposite or relative meanings. Entries consist of monosyllabic words, disyllabic words, and four-character phrases. The main entries are arranged in the order of the Pinyin romanization of the first character, and when the first characters are homophones, they are arranged by stroke count from few to many. The main content includes the headword, antonym pairs, and usage notes. Carefully crafted based on a large corpus—thick accumulation leads to brilliance, selecting the essence and using it comprehensively; written by elite teachers and renowned experts—targeted and practical, meeting real needs; adhering to national language and character standards—meticulous and striving for excellence; innovatively closer to primary and secondary school students—showing ingenuity in overcoming difficulties, keeping pace with the times. This dictionary includes over 3,600 antonym entries in modern Chinese. When determining the headwords, attention was paid to the reflection of antonymic relationships in the semantic features of words, aiming to assist in Chinese language learning and reading comprehension. The compilers of this dictionary have paid attention to absorbing new achievements in lexical research and emphasized analyzing the semantic features of words when providing definitions. When explaining polysemous words, only the meanings with corresponding antonyms are defined. For example, the word "clean" has the meaning "clean, free of impurities," and its antonym is "dirty," which is defined and illustrated with examples in the dictionary. However, the other meaning of "clean" is "metaphorically meaning nothing is left," which does not have a corresponding antonym and is therefore not explained. If a word has multiple meanings, and each meaning has its own corresponding antonym, we list them separately, explain and provide examples for each meaning, and list the corresponding antonym for that meaning. If there is a special need for clarification, it is elaborated on in the usage notes.