rime dictionary

English

Alternative forms

• rhyme dictionary

Noun

rime dictionary (plural rime dictionaries)

1. A historical type of Chinese character dictionary that collates characters by rime and tone (pronunciation) rather than by radical. It does not necessarily provide definitions.

Synonyms

• rime book

Hypernyms

• pronouncing dictionary

Translations

Chinese dictionary

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 韻書／韵书 (zh) (yùnshū)

• Japanese: 韻書 (いんしょ, insho)
• Korean: 운서(韻書) (unseo)

See also

• rime table