The Hanyu Da Zidian is one of the best available reference works on Chinese characters. A group of more than 400 editors and lexicographers began compilation in 1979, and it was published in eight volumes from 1986 to 1989. A separate volume of essays documents the lexicographical complexities for this full-scale Chinese dictionary. Besides the weighty 5,790-page first edition, there are 3-volume and pocket editions.
The ''Hanyu Da Zidian'' includes 54,678 head entries for characters. They give historical logographic forms such as oracle bone script, bronzeware script, and seal script. Pronunciation is glossed for Old Chinese , Middle Chinese , and Standard Mandarin . The chronologically numbered definitions cite early Chinese dictionaries and texts. Internal collating is by a novel 200 system, arranged by count. Volume 8 has appendices, including rime tables for Old and Middle Chinese, variant characters, indexes, and addenda.
The ''Hanyu Da Zidian'' has become the international standard reference for Chinese characters; for example, the Unihan Database and the Wiktionary cite references.
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