| 汉语大字典 |
Hàn yǔ Dà Zì diǎn |
Hanyu Da Zidian, one of the most comprehensive Chinese character dictionaries with 54,678 (and later 60,370) entries, first published between 1986-1990 |
| 汉 |
Hàn |
Han ethnic group / Chinese (language) / the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD) |
| 汉 |
hàn |
man |
| 汉语 |
Hàn yǔ |
Chinese language |
| 语 |
yǔ |
dialect / language / speech |
| 语 |
yù |
(literary) to tell; to let (sb) know |
| 大 |
dà |
big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐) / greatly; freely; fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother) |
| 大 |
dài |
see 大夫 |
| 字 |
zì |
letter / symbol / character / word / CL:个 / courtesy or style name traditionally given to males aged 20 in dynastic China |
| 字典 |
zì diǎn |
Chinese character dictionary (containing entries for single characters, contrasted with a 词典, which has entries for words of one or more characters) / (coll.) dictionary / CL:本 |
| 典 |
diǎn |
canon / law / standard work of scholarship / literary quotation or allusion / ceremony / to be in charge of / to mortgage or pawn |