典籍

diǎnjí
noun #63,601

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 ancient classics
  2. 2 canonical books and records
  3. 3 literary heritage

Examples

Tā yìshēng yánjiū Zhōngguó gǔdài diǎnjí.
He spent his life studying ancient Chinese classics.
Gùgōng shōucángle dàliàng zhēnguì de diǎnjí.
The Palace Museum holds a large collection of precious classical texts.

Tips

memory
(canon, model) + (register, book) → texts that are both authoritative and bibliographically tracked. Modern museums and libraries call rare-book collections 古籍 (gǔjí); 典籍 carries an extra weight of canonical importance.

Stroke Order

diǎn