Practical Chinese-Japanese Dictionary

Author: Dafu Sugimoto
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Publish Date: 2000-12-01
Features: This is a small and concise Chinese-Japanese dictionary, easy to carry. The dictionary includes everyday words, with a focus on current usage. The selected words are primarily everyday terms in modern China. Although the dictionary occasionally features obsolete words or written language, the emphasis remains on selecting words, annotating meanings, and providing example sentences. The dictionary has the following features. , it clarifies whether each Chinese character can stand alone as a word, indicating whether the character can be used independently or must be combined with other characters to form a word, thus distinguishing whether it is a morpheme. Even in single-character definitions, it distinguishes between words used alone and those not used alone. Second, it accurately labels word classes based on the original meaning. Third, the example sentences are concise and specify whether they are single words or compound words, sentences or passages. Fourth, for adjectives, particularly those primarily used as predicates or modifiers, annotations are added before the definitions to indicate usage differences. Additionally, the dictionary strives for effective use of space in its layout. The aforementioned feature, although used in some dictionaries, is actively highlighted in this one. Of course, language is living and evolves with time and context. The distinctions mentioned above are not absolute but serve as a baseline. Moreover, it is self-evident that this baseline is based on the compiler's capabilities. However, the compiler believes that this baseline is beneficial to the users.