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词典

cí diǎn

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 3 2-character word Traditional 詞典 Measure word 本、部

词典 (cí diǎn) means "dictionary". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 词典 means

1. dictionary

The characters in 词典

• 词cíword; statement; speech; lyrics; a form of lyric poetry, flourishing in the Song dynasty…
• 典diǎncanon; law; standard work of scholarship

Example sentences

• 查词典。
  Check your dictionary.
• 我有词典。
  I have a dictionary.
• 这词典不好。
  This dictionary is no good.
• 那是一本词典。
  It's a dictionary.
• 你有英语词典吗？
  Do you have an English dictionary?
• 我想买这本词典。
  I want to buy this dictionary.

Words starting with 词典

• 词典学cí diǎn xuélexicography

Words containing 词典

• 心理词典xīn lǐ cí diǎnmental lexicon
• 维基词典Wéi jī cí diǎnWiktionary (online dictionary)
• 电子词典diàn zǐ cí diǎnelectronic dictionary
• 类属词典lèi shǔ cí diǎnthesaurus
• 汉语大词典Hàn yǔ Dà Cí diǎnHanyu Da Cidian, the largest Chinese dictionary, with over 375,000 word entries, first…
• 百科词典bǎi kē cí diǎnencyclopedic dictionary

Sounds the same

Read cí diǎn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 辞典variant of 词典

Where 词典 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Writing & study skills (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read cí diǎn correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.