- Kangxi Dictionary
Chinese
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p=Kāngxī Zìdiǎn
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kanji=康熙字典
hiragana=こうきじてん
revhep=Kōki JitenThe "Kangxi Dictionary" was the standard
Chinese dictionary during the 18th and 19th centuries. TheKangxi Emperor of the ManchuQing Dynasty ordered its compilation in 1710 and it was published in 1716. The dictionary is named after the Emperor's era name.Compilation
The "Kangxi Dictionary" editors, including Zhang Yushu ( _zh. 張玉書) and Chen Tingjing ( _zh. 陳廷敬), partly based it on two
Ming Dynasty dictionaries: the 1615 "Zihui " ( _zh. 字彙 "Character Collection") by Mei Yingzuo ( _zh. 梅膺祚), and the 1627 "Zhengzitong " ( _zh. 正字通 "Correct Character Mastery") by Zhang Zilie (張自烈). Since the imperial edict required that the "Kangxi Dictionary" be compiled within five years, a number of errors were inevitable. TheDaoguang Emperor established a review board and their 1831 "Zidian kaozheng" ( _zh. 字典考證 "Character Dictionary Textual Research") corrected 2,588 mistakes, mostly in quotations and citations. (Teng and Biggerstaff 1971: 130)The supplemented dictionary contains 47,035 character entries, plus 1,995 graphic variants, giving a total of 49,030 different characters. They are grouped under the 214 radicals and arranged by the number of additional strokes in the character. Although these 214 radicals were first used in the "Zihui", due to the popularity of the "Kangxi Dictionary" they are known as Kangxi radicals and remain in modern usage as a method to categorize
traditional Chinese character s.The character entries give variants (if any), pronunciations in traditional
fanqie spelling and in modern reading of ahomophone , different meanings, and quotations from Chinese books and lexicons. The dictionary also containsrime table s with characters ordered undersyllable rime classes, tones, and initialsyllable onset s.The "Kangxi Dictionary" is available in many forms, from old Qing Dynasty editions in
block printing , to reprints intraditional Chinese bookbinding , to modern revised editions with essays in Western-stylehardcover , to the digitizedInternet version.The "Kangxi Dictionary" is one of the Chinese dictionaries used by the
Ideographic Rapporteur Group for theUnicode standard.Structure of the Kangxi dictionary
* Preface by
Kangxi Emperor : pp. 1-6 ( _zh. 御製序)
* Notes on the use of the dictionary : pp. 7-12 ( _zh. 凡例)
* Indication of pronuciation of characters : pp. 13-40 ( _zh. 等韻)
* Comprehensive table of contents by radicals : pp. 41-49 ( _zh. 總目)
* Facilitated consulting contents : pp. 50-71 ( _zh. 检字)* The dictionary proper : pp. 75-1631
** Main text : pp. 75-1538
** Addendum contents : pp. 1539-1544 ( _zh. 補遺)
** Addendum text : pp. 1545-1576
** Appendix contents (No-source-characters) : pp. 1577-1583 ( _zh. 備考)
** Appendix text : pp. 1585-1631
* Postscript : pp. 1633-1635 ( _zh. 後記)
* Textual research : pp. 1637-1683 ( _zh. 考证)ee also
*
Dai Kan-Wa jiten
*Hanyu Da Zidian
*List of Kangxi radicals
*Peiwen Yunfu
*Zhonghua Da Zidian References
*Teng, Ssu-yü and Biggerstaff, Knight. 1971. "An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Chinese Reference Works", 3rd ed. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-03851-7
External links
* [http://www.kangxizidian.com 康熙字典網上版 Kangxi Dictionary Net Version]
* [http://www.chinaknowledge.de/Literature/Science/kangxizidian.html Kangxi zidian 康熙字典] , English translation of one definition, on Chinaknowledge.de
* [https://seguecommunity.middlebury.edu/index.php?&action=site&site=tbilling§ion=11854&page=48886&story=150166&detail=150166 Making Friends with the "Kangxi zidian" 康熙字典] , Occasional paper with translation of Kangxi Emperor's preface 御製康熙字典序
* [http://www.zdic.net 汉典 The Chinese Language Dictionary Homepage (in Chinese only)]
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