Chinese Mini Dictionary New Edition Cihai Version

Author: Yang Rongrong, Editor-in-Chief
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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 sales reaching 120,000 copies. The new edition optimizes the content based on the latest teaching requirements, focusing on innovation, origin, cultivation, and practicality. In terms of design, it uses a fashionable new layout with double-color printing to achieve elegance, sophistication, liveliness, and novelty. The set consists of 12 volumes. This dictionary is compiled for readers with intermediate education levels and includes 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 standard character (()) indicates traditional characters, and [] indicates variant characters. A standard character may correspond to several traditional or variant characters, which are listed under different meanings. The listed characters are annotated with Pinyin. Characters with multiple pronunciations are handled according to the "Table for the Review of Variants in the Pronunciation of Chinese Words" published by the State Council's Language Commission and other relevant authorities. Definitions are concise and appropriate. Polysemous characters are explained in separate items (①②③). Characters that are not suitable for individual definitions are illustrated with examples, covering different types to help readers understand various usages. 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 the listed characters as well as the appended traditional and variant characters. The appendix includes the "Scheme for the Spelling of Chinese Characters" and the "Table for the Use of Punctuation Marks."