辞典

See also: 辭典

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 辞典 – see 詞典 (“dictionary”). (This term is the simplified form of 辭典, which is in turn a variant form of 詞典).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
辞	典
じ Grade: 4	てん Grade: 4
on'yomi

Alternative spelling
辭典 (kyūjitai)

Pronunciation

• Homophones: 字典, 事典

Noun

1. a dictionary

Usage notes

• Japanese has a number of words that are translated in English as “dictionary”; see Japanese dictionary at Wikipedia.
• 辞典 is used (along with 辞書(じしょ) (jisho)) to mean “dictionary” in the English sense of “lexicon”, as well as more broadly to mean other word books such as

  類語辞典(るいごじてん) (ruigojiten): thesaurus and

  文法辞典(ぶんぽうじてん) (bunpōjiten): grammar book, among others.

Synonyms

• 辞書(じしょ) (jisho)
• 辞林(じりん) (jirin)

• 字引(じびき) (jibiki)
• 辞彙(じい) (jii)

Derived terms

• 文法辞典(ぶんぽうじてん) (bunpō jiten): grammar book
• 類語辞典(るいごじてん) (ruigo jiten): thesaurus

Related terms

• 事典(じてん) (jiten): encyclopaedia

• 字典(じてん) (jiten): character dictionary

See also

• Korean: 辭典 (사전, sajeon)
• Vietnamese: 辭典 (từ điển)