Zihui
Sign in to saveThe 1615 Zìhuì is a Chinese dictionary edited by the Ming Dynasty scholar Mei Yingzuo (梅膺祚). It is renowned for introducing two lexicographical innovations that continue to be used in the present day: the 214-radical system for indexing Chinese characters, which replaced the classic Shuowen Jiezi dictionary's 540-radical system, and the radical-and-stroke sorting method.
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The 1615 Zìhuì is a Chinese dictionary edited by the Ming Dynasty scholar Mei Yingzuo (梅膺祚). It is renowned for introducing two lexicographical innovations that continue to be used in the present day: the 214-radical system for indexing Chinese characters, which replaced the classic Shuowen Jiezi dictionary's 540-radical system, and the radical-and-stroke sorting method.
==Title== The dictionary title combines zì "character; script; writing; graph; word" and huì "gather together; assemble; collection; list". Early forms of the graph huì 彙 depicted a "hedgehog" (wèi ), and it was borrowed as a phonetic loan character for the word huì "gather together; collection", both of which, in the simplified character system, are . In modern Chinese usage, zìhuì or means "glossary; wordbook; lexicon; dictionary; vocabulary; (computing) character set" (Wenlin 2016).
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