辞典

See also: 辭典

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 辞典 – see 詞典 (“dictionary”). (This term, 辞典, is the simplified form of 辭典, which is in turn a variant form of 詞典.)
Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

On’yomi: Goon
- (Tokyo) じてん [jìtéń] (Heiban – [0])[1][2][3]
- IPA^(key): [d͡ʑitẽ̞ɴ]
Homophones: 字典, 事典

辞典 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 辭典, hiragana じてん, rōmaji jiten)

Japanese has a number of words that are translated in English as “dictionary”; see Japanese dictionary at Wikipedia.
辞典 is used (along with 辞書 (じしょ) (jisho)) to mean “dictionary” in the English sense of “lexicon”, as well as more broadly to mean other word books such as
類語辞典 (るいごじてん) (ruigojiten): thesaurus and

文法辞典 (ぶんぽうじてん) (bunpōjiten): grammar book, among others.

1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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