Ancient Chinese Common Character Dictionary

Author: Wang Li et al.
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Publish Date: 2005-04-24
Features: This book is written by over ten experts and scholars, including the renowned linguists Wang Li, Cen Lixiang, Lin Tao, Dai Li, Tang Zuofan, Jiang Shaoyu, and others, and serves as a reference tool for learning ancient Chinese. It primarily includes common characters in ancient Chinese, supplemented by difficult characters and disyllabic words, totaling nearly 10,000 entries. The definitions are authoritative, the pronunciations are accurate, and the example sentences are well-chosen. For difficult sentences, annotations and explanations are provided. The book also features dedicated sections for "Notes" and "Distinguishing," which offer hints and clarifications for challenging characters and words. This dictionary includes over 4,200 common ancient Chinese characters (excluding variant forms). Characters with meanings identical to modern Chinese and those commonly used in modern Chinese, as well as rare characters or meanings rarely appearing in ancient texts, characters and meanings that emerged only in archaic colloquial language or modern Chinese, and meanings unique to poetry, lyrics, and quatrains are generally not included. A small number of disyllabic words are also included, totaling around 2,500. The dictionary appendix contains two supplements: the "Table of Difficult Characters" and the "Chronological Table of Dynasties in Chinese History." The "Table of Difficult Characters" includes over 2,500 characters, providing only phonetic transcriptions and definitions without examples, serving as a complement to the main text of the dictionary. Characters in the Table of Difficult Characters and those in the main text are uniformly listed in the index.