Modern Chinese Dictionary (6th Edition)

Book preparation process

Revisions

After the publication of "Modern Chinese Dictionary (5th Edition)" in 2005, with the continuous advancement of China’s reform and opening up, political and economic , Culture and social development are changing with each passing day. Correspondingly, the language life of the masses is unprecedentedly active, and the language, especially the vocabulary in it, is constantly changing. On the other hand, linguistic research, especially the theoretical research of lexicology and dictionary compilation, has made some new progress. The relevant state departments have successively introduced some new norms and standards in recent years. All these have made the staff in the dictionary editing room of the Institute of Languages ​​of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences feel the need to make a systematic revision of the "Modern Chinese Dictionary" on the original basis, so that this Chinese dictionary with extensive social influence can keep up with the times. Improve the quality to a new level.

The revision of "Modern Chinese Dictionary (6th Edition)" insists on taking academic research as the guide, focusing on the scientific and systematic revision work. More than a dozen research topics have been set up in various links including word collection, word collection, interpretation, and matching examples. The revision team and the researchers in the institute will conduct investigations and studies one by one. This revision makes full use of various corpora to select or test new words, new meanings and new usages, and strive to reflect the new look of vocabulary development in recent years and the new results of related research. Following the consistent aim of promoting the standardization of modern Chinese, the "Modern Chinese Dictionary (6th Edition)" not only fully and correctly implements the previous national norms and standards in language, science and technology, but also pays attention to absorb and reflect the national language in recent years. The work committee organizes experts and scholars to formulate and revise the latest achievements of norms and standards related to the shape and sound of characters.

The main content of this revision is:

⑴Carefully determine the shape and sound of the characters in accordance with the norms and standards; sort out the relationship between the simplified and traditional characters, and the difference between the prefixes; more than 600 single characters have been added A (mainly based on place names, surnames, names and scientific and technological characters).

⑵Increase nearly 3000 new words and other words, add more than 400 new meanings, and delete a few old words and word meanings.

(3) The phonetic notation of the entries was revised with reference to the opinions of the revised research group of the "Basic Rules of Chinese Pinyin Orthography" and the research group of the "Standardization of Putonghua Unvoiced Words" by the National Language Working Committee.

⑷Taking meaning as the main criterion, adjustments were made to the division and combination of homophone entries; according to the academic theory and the actual use of language, the main and auxiliary clauses of a batch of heteromorphic words were adjusted.

⑸Comprehensively review and revise the interpretations according to categories (such as "spoken words, dialect words, classical Chinese words, special term words, foreign words, western letter words", etc.), and review the interpretation prompt words (such as " Metaphors, descriptions, borrowing means, etc.) have also been revised.

⑹ The part-of-speech tagging was reviewed, and the part-of-speech tagging of a few words was revised on the basis of maintaining the original part-of-speech tagging system.

⑺ In line with the principle of better coordinating interpretation, reflecting usage and expanding the amount of vocabulary information, corresponding additions, deletions and modifications have been made to examples.

⑻In conjunction with the interpretation, nearly a hundred illustrations of ancient artifacts have been added.

⑼The checklist and appendix have been revised according to relevant standards and new research results.

Publishing work

In June 2012, "Modern Chinese Dictionary (6th Edition)" was published by the Commercial Press. In November 2012, "Modern Chinese Dictionary (Sixth Edition Commemorative Edition)" was republished.

Description of content

The "Modern Chinese Dictionary (6th Edition)" contains more than 13,000 single characters and more than 69,000 entries of words, phrases, idioms, and idioms. In addition to the general vocabulary, some common dialect words and meanings are also included, and some words used in place names, names, surnames, etc., and a few words that are not very commonly used in modern times. The alphabetical arrangement of the characters is arranged in the alphabetical order of the Chinese phonetic alphabet, and a list of radicals is attached. The appendix includes the "List of Chinese Epochs", "List of Units of Measurement", "List of Chinese Characters Radical Names", "Hanyu Pinyin Scheme", and "Elements" "Periodic Table", "Map of China" and other materials.

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Writing features

• Increased new words and meanings, reflecting the characteristics of the times

The revision of "Modern Chinese Dictionary (6th Edition)" is mainly based on the principles of universality and vitality, and makes full use of various corpora to select or test new words, new meanings and new usages, and strive to reflect the development of vocabulary in recent years. New look and new results of related research. The main features of this aspect are: the selection of new words involves multiple fields; the new vocabulary records contemporary life; the new meanings of words show social changes; dialects and foreign words enter Mandarin.

• Improve the interpretation and example sentences to reflect the scientific nature

"Modern Chinese Dictionary (6th Edition) The revision of ")" adheres to the guidance of academic research, draws on and absorbs the new results of vocabulary research in recent years, conducts a comprehensive inspection and revision of interpretations, and makes corresponding additions, deletions and amendments to example words and example sentences. When dealing with specific problems Take system stability as the requirement and pay attention to the scientific nature of the revision work. Some new words and new meanings are newly collected in "Modern Chinese Dictionary (6th Edition)", and their interpretations have been repeatedly polished and strive to be appropriate and accurate; some of the definitions have been deleted, reflecting the development of the meaning of the word; some have focused on making up for the original. If there are deficiencies in the paraphrase language, try to perfect the paraphrase.

• Combine the shapes and sounds of characters to reflect the norms

"Modern Chinese Dictionary (6th Edition) )", in addition to fully and correctly implementing the country’s previous norms and standards on language and science and technology, it also pays attention to absorb and reflect the latest information on the shape and sound of characters formulated and revised by experts and scholars organized by the National Language Working Committee. Normative standards. In order to meet the needs of social use of characters, the "Modern Chinese Dictionary (6th Edition)" aims to implement and guide norms, and pays close attention to the progress of the "Common Standard Chinese Character List" (draft for comments), and more than 600 single characters (with surnames) According to the opinions of experts, scholars and readers, some variants and traditional characters have been dealt with accordingly, and the improvement of the "Common Standard Chinese Characters Table" after soliciting opinions has started. Positive effect. Dictionaries should respect and implement national norms and standards. However, when a few regulations are obviously not in line with language reality and are not recognized by most readers, some modifications can be made to provide a basis for the revision of norms and standards and reserve space. This is a treatment of norms and standards. The scientific attitude of seeking truth from facts.

• Accept readers’ opinions and reflect practicality

"Modern Chinese Dictionary (6th Edition) )" The revision actively and prudently draws on and absorbs the new research results and the reasonable opinions of the general readers, and enhances the practicality of the dictionary.

Derivative version

Honorary Recognition

2013, "Modern Chinese Dictionary (6th Edition)" won the Book Award of the Third China Publishing Government Award.

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