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辞典

cí diǎn

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 辭典

辞典 (cí diǎn) means "dictionary (variant of 词典)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 辞典 means

1. variant of {词典|cí diǎn}

The characters in 辞典

• 辞cíto resign; to dismiss; to decline
• 典diǎncanon; law; standard work of scholarship

Example sentences

• 我想要买便宜的辞典。
  Wǒ xiǎngyào mǎi piányi de cídiǎn.
  I want to buy a cheap dictionary.
• Tatoeba是一本辞典。
  Tatoeba is a dictionary.
• 这电子辞典的好处就是便于携带。
  Zhè diànzǐ cídiǎn de hǎochu jiùshì biànyú xiédài.
  The good thing about this electronic dictionary is that it's easy to carry.
• 若你不懂词义，就在辞典上查阅一下吧。
  Ruò nǐ bù dǒng cíyì, jiù zài cídiǎn shàng cháyuè yīxià ba.
  If you don't know what the word means, look it up in the dictionary.

Words containing 辞典

• 类语辞典lèi yǔ cí diǎnthesaurus
• 袖珍辞典xiù zhēn cí diǎnpocket dictionary

Sounds the same

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

• 词典dictionary

Go deeper

• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read cí diǎn correctly.
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