Chinese calligraphy dictionary

Author: Si Huiguo
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features:
1. This dictionary is specially compiled for calligraphers, calligraphy enthusiasts, and young people as a practical reference book for Chinese calligraphy. It also provides assistance for ethnic groups across the country and foreigners in learning Chinese character writing.
2. This dictionary includes 3,000 commonly used characters from the "Modern Chinese Common Characters" list jointly released by the National Language and Character Working Committee and the Ministry of Education, totaling approximately 16,000 characters in all scripts.
3. The radicals in this dictionary are mostly the same as those in the "Xinhua Dictionary." To help readers understand how to look up characters, each character is listed with its radical and stroke count. Due to variations in writing order, some characters may appear multiple times, and they are listed accordingly.
4. The dictionary contains 200 radicals, arranged in order of stroke count. The characters listed under each radical are also categorized by stroke count, with those having fewer than 20 characters not categorized by stroke count.
5. The script order of the dictionary is Regular Script, Traditional Regular Script, Running Script, Cursive Script, Clerical Script, and Seal Script.