Hanyu Da Cidian An Unabridged Chinese Dictionary on Historical Principles

Hanyu Da Cidian (HDC), the equivalent of the Oxford English Dictionary, is the most significant development in Chinese lexicography of the last century. Solidly based on historical principles, HDC is an essential research tool for serious sinologists and scholars of Chinese history, literature, language, and virtually all other fields in Chinese studies. It consists of twelve large volumes containing 18,314 double-columned pages of entries, plus individual volume indices and a separate index volume to all the single head characters in the entire dictionary. All together, HDC contains approximately 370,000 entries, more than 1,500,000 citations, and roughly 23,000 different characters.Luo, Zhufeng is the author of 'Hanyu Da Cidian An Unabridged Chinese Dictionary on Historical Principles', published 2006 under ISBN 9787543200135 and ISBN 7543200139.