Student's Common Ancient Chinese Dictionary

Author: Wei Li
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Publish Date: 2002-02-01
Features: This dictionary is compiled in accordance with the Compulsory Education Full-Time Secondary School Chinese Language Teaching Syllabus issued by the Ministry of Education of China, primarily targeting middle school students, secondary school Chinese language teachers, and readers with intermediate education levels. The dictionary includes approximately 2,500 commonly used standard characters, along with simplified, traditional, and variant characters, totaling around 3,000. It covers approximately 6,000 ancient Chinese words that are required to be mastered according to the secondary school Chinese language teaching syllabus and commonly encountered in extracurricular reading. The scope of included terms includes frequently used ancient Chinese vocabulary, important personal names, place names, book titles, dynasty names, key fixed structures and phrases highlighted in the secondary school Chinese language teaching syllabus, and important ancient Chinese grammatical relationships. The back of the book also includes a classified table of ancient Chinese function words, general knowledge of ancient Chinese culture, and a concise table of ancient Chinese writers and their works. Each entry is explained in terms of character form, pronunciation, meaning, and part of speech, with selected examples provided as usage demonstrations. The dictionary is arranged in Pinyin order, making it easy to use for reference.