The first book called Dictionary was compiled by Zhang Yushu and other 30 people in the Qing Dynasty in 17 10, with exegesis and pronunciation. A reference book on meaning and usage. After reading it, Emperor Kangxi said that this book was "good and beautiful" and it was a classic, so he named it "Dictionary" and added the word "Kangxi" to it, which was called "Kangxi Dictionary". In the future, all such books that explain words will be called "dictionaries".

Kangxi Dictionary not only lists the etymology, but also lists the antitheses of Tang Yun, Guang Yun, Ji Yun, Yun Hui and Zheng Yun, and merges homophones.

The first Chinese character dictionary:

The earliest dictionary in China is Erya, which was written before the Han Dynasty. Because Erya classifies and explains the characters, Confucian scholars classify Erya as an exegesis.

Later, in about 30 AD-124, Xu Shen of Han Dynasty wrote Shuo Wen Jie Zi, which established the theory of six scripts and laid the foundation for radical of Chinese characters, making him an outstanding character book. It is the first dictionary in China that systematically analyzes glyphs and studies etymology, and it is also one of the oldest dictionaries in the world.

1 190, that is, in the twenty-first year of emperor Kangxi's reign, the Tangut people completed the first Xixia bilingual dictionary in Chinese, The Pearl of the Combination of Fan and Han, which became the basis for archaeologists to translate Xixia.

17 16 years (55th year of Kangxi), the first Kangxi dictionary was published.

Dictionaries have a long history and were called word books in ancient China. The word "Zishu", as the general name of works that explain characters, was widely used in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, but it was listed as a primary school in historical books of past dynasties, and it was not listed as a separate category in the category of primary schools until the compilation of Sikuquanshu in Qing Dynasty.

Extended data:

Modern dictionaries provide many functions, two of which are:

(1) Focus on communication, help to understand the text and translate five strokes.

(2) Focus on knowledge and seek knowledge for something.

Dictionaries can be divided into detailed dictionaries and specialized dictionaries.

A detailed dictionary is a comprehensive explanation of the form, sound and meaning of words, such as Xinhua Dictionary and Chinese Dictionary.

(2) Special dictionaries, also called special dictionaries, only explain one aspect of words, such as orthographic dictionaries, orthographic dictionaries, function dictionaries and difficult dictionaries.

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