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字典

zì diǎn 4–3

Chinese character dictionary (containing entries for single characters, contrasted with a 词典, which has entries for words of one or more characters); (coll.) dictionary

HSK level
HSK 2
HSK 2.0 level 3 · HSK 3.0 level 2
Characters
2
字 · 典
Syllables
2
zì diǎn
Frequency
Rare
corpus count 13,961

Part of speech: n

Character by character

  • 字zì6 strokesHSK 1letter, character, word
  • 典diǎn8 strokesHSK 2law, canon; documentation; classic, scripture

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 这是我的字典。

    Zhè shì wǒ de zì diǎn

    This is my dictionary.

  • 我有一本字典。

    Wǒ yǒu yī běn zì diǎn

    I have a dictionary.

  • 那是我的字典。

    Nà shi wǒ de zì diǎn

    That's my dictionary.

  • 这本字典是我的。

    Zhè běn zì diǎn shì wǒ de

    This dictionary is mine.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 字典. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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