tooironic Posted February 22, 2010 at 06:58 AM Report Share Posted February 22, 2010 at 06:58 AM 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gato Posted February 22, 2010 at 07:30 AM Report Share Posted February 22, 2010 at 07:30 AM 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imron Posted February 22, 2010 at 08:03 AM Report Share Posted February 22, 2010 at 08:03 AM 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" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrix Posted February 22, 2010 at 08:17 AM Report Share Posted February 22, 2010 at 08:17 AM For the Taiwan standard, the dictionary published by the Ministry of Education: http://dict.revised.moe.edu.tw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hofmann Posted February 23, 2010 at 07:48 AM Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 at 07:48 AM Before those, 康熙字典. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buzhongren Posted February 23, 2010 at 04:31 PM Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 at 04:31 PM 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrix Posted February 23, 2010 at 05:02 PM Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 at 05:02 PM 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.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
in_lab Posted February 24, 2010 at 05:56 AM Report Share Posted February 24, 2010 at 05:56 AM Try searching like this: ^ㄔㄚˊ$ ^ to mark the beginning and $ to mark the end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buzhongren Posted February 24, 2010 at 03:34 PM Report Share Posted February 24, 2010 at 03:34 PM in_lab: Try searching like this: ^ㄔㄚˊ$ Nice. Ill see if other Linux Regular Expressions also work too narrow the results. xiele, Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imron Posted February 25, 2010 at 09:21 AM Report Share Posted February 25, 2010 at 09:21 AM Nothing Linux specific about those regular expressions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buzhongren Posted February 25, 2010 at 03:02 PM Report Share Posted February 25, 2010 at 03:02 PM 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
li3wei1 Posted June 18, 2012 at 09:14 AM Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 at 09:14 AM 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imron Posted June 18, 2012 at 09:48 AM Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 at 09:48 AM merged with answer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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