As for the total number of Chinese characters, there is no accurate figure so far. On the one hand, it is difficult to count because there are too many Chinese characters, on the other hand, there are too many variant characters and vulgar characters. Whether these characters can be counted in the total number of Chinese characters is controversial in academic circles.
The eleventh edition of Xinhua Dictionary was published on July 20 1 1. The latest edition of Xinhua Dictionary has added more than 800 prefixes, in addition to 1500 traditional characters and more than 500 variant characters.
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Xinhua Dictionary is the first modern Chinese dictionary in China. The earliest name was Wu Dictionary, but it was not compiled. Since 1953, it has been re-edited, and its general example is completely Wu Dictionary.
It was published from 1953 and revised repeatedly, but Xinhua Dictionary published by the Commercial Press in 1957 was the first edition. Edited by Xinhua Dictionary Society, from 65438 to 0956, it was compiled into the dictionary editing room of Institute of Linguistics of China Academy of Sciences (now Institute of Linguistics of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences).
Xinhua Dictionary is published by the Commercial Press. After several generations of hundreds of experts and scholars 10, it was revised on a large scale and reprinted more than 200 times. It has become the dictionary with the highest circulation in the world publishing history so far.
Xinhua Dictionary is the first small dictionary in China arranged according to the phonetic order of Chinese Pinyin.
Xinhua Dictionary Society 1953 is the editor, and linguist Wei (190 1 ~ 1980) is the editor. The first edition was published by People's Education Publishing House, 1953, arranged alphabetically by phonetic symbols; With the subsequent revision, it was changed to the alphabetical order of Chinese Pinyin, which was later reorganized and published by the Commercial Press.
Xinhua Dictionary is the first dictionary with explanations and examples of vernacular Chinese published after the founding of New China. It is also the most influential and authoritative small Chinese dictionary so far, and it can be called a model of small Chinese dictionaries.
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Xinhua Dictionary-Baidu Encyclopedia