Most authoritative monolingual Chinese dictionaries

[tooironic]

Who can tell me which large, comprehensive monolingual Chinese dictionaries are considered to be the most authoritative (e.g. comparable to the "gold standard" of OED, Webster, Chambers, Macquarie, etc)? Thanks.

[gato]

That would probably be the 汉语大词典. You can choose between the 22-, 3- and 1-volume edition.

http://www.amazon.cn/mn/detailApp/ref=sr_1_2?_encoding=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266823219&asin=B001MJ0BSO&sr=8-2

汉语大词典(套装全22册) 卓越价：¥1,711.50

http://www.amazon.cn/mn/detailApp/ref=sr_1_1?_encoding=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266823219&asin=B0017VH8YC&sr=8-1

汉语大词典缩印本(上中下) 卓越价：¥544.00

http://www.amazon.cn/mn/detailApp/ref=sr_1_4?_encoding=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266823219&asin=B00114AHAC&sr=8-4

汉语大词典(普及本)(精装) 卓越价：¥146.50

[imron]

For authoritative you should also consider the 现代汉语词典, which is my paper dictionary of choice, and, (according to Baidupedia at least) "在中国大陆语言界具权威地位"

[chrix]

For the Taiwan standard, the dictionary published by the Ministry of Education: http://dict.revised.moe.edu.tw

[Hofmann]

Before those, 康熙字典.

[buzhongren]

chrix: For the Taiwan standard, the dictionary published by the Ministry of Education: http://dict.revised.moe.edu.tw

Ive been looking for a Bopomofo input dictionary. When I plug in ㄔㄚˊ for all cha2 I get compound words. I dont see any single character definition for 茶 as example. This cha2 returned some 680+ results only 50 shown. Is the single definition later on in the search results.

xiele,

Jim

[chrix]

Yes it returns all characters read cha2 and all words that include a character read cha2 in any position. The results are ordered according to the way zhuyin are ordered..

[in_lab]

Try searching like this: ^ㄔㄚˊ$

^ to mark the beginning and $ to mark the end.

[buzhongren]

in_lab: Try searching like this: ^ㄔㄚˊ$

Nice. Ill see if other Linux Regular Expressions also work too narrow the results.

xiele,

Jim

[imron]

Nothing Linux specific about those regular expressions.

[buzhongren]

buzhongren: Ill see if other Linux Regular Expressions also work too narrow the results.

All the regexps I tried work. For example, ^.ㄔㄚˊ.$ returned three characters with cha2 pinned as middle. As an online Chinese dictionary how authoritative compared to various comprehensive Chinese dictionaries in print.

xiele,

Jim

[li3wei1]

Is there a single Chinese dictionary that serves as the ultimate and final reference for either character or word definitions/pronunciations/variant forms? In English, we have the Oxford English Dictionary, which is generally accepted as the most comprehensive and well-researched.

I'm comparing online dictionaries, and finding discrepancies, especially at the outer reaches of uncommon characters. For instance, 篼 seems to have two definitions, and MDBG and Zdic disagree on which one is the Cantonese one. Which is right? Who has the final say on these matters?

[imron]

merged with answer.