新华词典

新華詞典
Xīnhuá cídiǎn
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Xinhua Word Dictionary, the Commercial Press's one-volume dictionary of Chinese words and terms

Examples

HSK 1
Wǒ mǎi le yì běn 《 Xīnhuá cídiǎn 》.
I bought a copy of the Xinhua Word Dictionary.
HSK 5
《新华词典》收的是词语,《新华字典》收的主要是单字。
《 Xīnhuá cídiǎn 》 shōu de shì cíyǔ, 《 Xīnhuá zìdiǎn 》 shōu de zhǔyào shì dānzì.
The Xinhua Word Dictionary lists words, while the Xinhua Dictionary mainly lists single characters.

Tips

mistakes
Not the 新华字典, the pocket character dictionary almost every Chinese schoolchild owns. 字典 is a dictionary of characters, 词典 a dictionary of words.
history
First published by the Commercial Press in 1980 and revised several times since, it also explains names and terms from history, geography and science, not only everyday words.

Stroke Order

新 xīn
华 huá
词 cí
典 diǎn