Characteristics of the Shuowen Jiezi (Explaining Characters in Chinese) and the Dictionary of Commonly Used Ancient Chinese Characters (Dictionary of Ancient Chinese)

The style of Shuowen Jiezi is to list the Small Seal Characters first, followed by the ancient characters if they are different from the prehistoric ones. Then the original meaning of the character is explained, and then the relationship between the shape of the character and its meaning or sound is substantiated. The arrangement of radicals in the Shuowen Jiezi is based on the principle of similarity of form or meaning.

The Shuowen Jiezi pioneered the use of radicals for character checking, and most later dictionaries adopted this approach. Duan Yucai called it "a book that has never been written before, and one that was created by Xu Jun".

Throughout the ages, there have been many scholars who have studied the Shuowen Jiezi, and the research was most flourishing during the Qing Dynasty. Duan Yucai's "Shuowen Jiezi Note", Zhu Junsheng's "Shuowen Tongxun Dingsheng", Guifu's "Shuowen Jiezi Yizi"; Wang Yun's "Shuowen Shuoji", "Shuowen Sentence Reading" is particularly highly regarded, the four are also honored as the "Shuowen four greats".

The four were also honored as the "four great masters of Shuowen".

The method of character creation puts forward "pictograms", "references", "huiyi", "xingyi" and "xingyin". "Transcription", "false borrowing" of the so-called "six books" doctrine. And in "Shuowen Jiezi. In "Shuo Wen Jie Zi", a comprehensive and authoritative explanation of the "Six Books" was given. From then on, "six books" became a specialized science.

The Dictionary of Commonly Used Characters in Ancient Chinese published by the Commercial Press is the first authoritative dictionary of ancient Chinese written with the viewpoints and methods of modern linguistics and thesaurus after the founding of New China. Since most of the writers are both famous linguists and teachers from the first line of ancient Chinese teaching, the dictionary is organized to meet the needs of ancient Chinese learners. It is authoritative in interpretation, accurate in pronunciation and precise in example sentences, with notes and explanations for difficult examples, and with "Notes" and "Analyzes" for hints and analyses of difficult words.

The Dictionary is a linguistic dictionary. It is the largest ancient Chinese dictionary in China.

Yi Yuan is the first large-scale language dictionary in China. It was first compiled in 1908 (thirty-fourth year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty), and has been revised and reprinted many times, which has gathered the efforts of several generations of scholars. The revised version of Dictionary is based on the old word book, rhyme book and class book, absorbing the characteristics of modern word book, focusing on words and encyclopedias, focusing on common words and emphasizing on practicality, it is an encyclopedic large-scale tool book with strong comprehensiveness and practicability. The whole book *** four books, nearly 100,000 words, a total of about 12 million words, almost double the Zizhi Tongjian.

The Hanyu Da Zidian, on the basis of inheriting the experience of its predecessors, pays attention to absorbing the research results of the present generation. It focuses on the close cooperation of form, sound and meaning, and reflects the development of Chinese characters' form, sound and meaning as historically and correctly as possible. In terms of glyphs, representative oracle bone inscriptions, jinwen, small seal scripts and liushu forms that reflect the evolutionary relationship of the forms are included under the single character entries of the regular script, with brief descriptions of the evolution of their structures. Each form included is based on reliable objects or topographies, and no second-hand or third-hand materials are used. In terms of character pronunciation, the included Regular Script characters have been annotated with modern pronunciation as far as possible, and the antithesis of the Middle Ages and the rhyming parts of the Upper Ages have also been included. In terms of the meaning of the characters, not only attention is paid to the inclusion of the common meanings of commonly used characters, but also attention is paid to the interpretation of the remote meanings of commonly used characters and the meanings of the remote characters, and the meanings of the words in the polyphonic words are also included appropriately. The explanations are accurate, the meanings are complete, and the examples are rich and exemplary. The book contains 54,678 single characters, which is one of the largest dictionaries of Chinese characters in the world today. All Chinese characters that appear in ancient and modern literature can basically be found in this dictionary. The dictionary is organized by radicals. On the basis of the traditional 214 radicals, 200 radicals have been deleted and merged as appropriate. The main text is in 7 volumes, each of which is preceded by a "Table of Contents of the Heads", "Explanation of the Method of Examination of the Heads", "Examples of Comparison of Old and New Characters", "Table of Contents of the Heads" and "Check List of the Heads" for each volume, and a "Table of Contents" for each volume. "and "List of Characters" in each volume. Volume 8 contains various appendices, a list of radicals in each volume, a list of stroke check characters in the whole book, and an addendum.

The Dictionary of Modern Chinese is the first standardized dictionary of modern Chinese in China, which is written by the Institute of Languages of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), a national academic institution under the State Council, with the purpose of promoting the use of Putonghua and standardization of the modern Chinese language, and is still unmatched in terms of authority and scientificity. It is the first standardized modern Chinese dictionary in China. Its two editors-in-chief, Lu Shuxiang and Ding Shengshu, are both renowned linguists in China and abroad, and its revisers are all first-class experts and scholars in China. The Dictionary of Modern Chinese summarizes the achievements of the vernacular language movement in China since the 20th century, and for the first time puts an end to the long-standing separation of written and spoken Chinese in the form of a dictionary, and for the first time comprehensively standardizes the modern Chinese language. The Dictionary of Modern Chinese has reached a new height in the theory of dictionaries, the level of compilation, and the quality of editing and proofreading, and is an exemplary work in the compilation and publication of dictionaries. Its large circulation and wide application are rare in the history of dictionaries in the world; it has an important influence on the unification and standardization of modern Chinese, on the study, learning and correct application of modern Chinese, and on the expansion of China's interaction with the peoples of the world.