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字典

zì diǎn

Old HSK 3 HSK 3.0 level 3 2-character word Measure word 本

字典 (zì diǎn) means "Chinese character dictionary". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was HSK 3 in the old six-level list.

What 字典 means

1. Chinese character dictionary (containing entries for single characters, contrasted with a {词典|cí diǎn}, which has entries for words of one or more characters)
2. colloquialdictionary

The characters in 字典

• 字zìletter; symbol; character
• 典diǎncanon; law; standard work of scholarship

Example sentences

• 我有字典。
  I have the dictionary.
• 我有本字典。
  I have a dictionary.
• 你有字典吗？
  Do you have a dictionary?
• 记得查字典！
  Remember to use the dictionary!
• 那是我的字典。
  That's my dictionary.
• 这是我的字典。
  This is my dictionary.

Words containing 字典

• 活字典huó zì diǎnwalking dictionary; well-informed person
• 汉语大字典Hàn yǔ Dà Zì diǎnHanyu Da Zidian, one of the most comprehensive Chinese character dictionaries with 54,678…
• 康熙字典Kāng xī Zì diǎnthe Kangxi Dictionary, named after the Kangxi Emperor, who in 1710 ordered its…

Where 字典 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of School, Study & Language (HSK 3), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 3 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zì diǎn correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.