The dictionary comprises a total of 8,169 head characters, together with 44,407 explanatory entries of grammatical usage and 40,379 entries of Chinese words or phrases. Both search mode and browse mode are available. Developed by Dept. of Education of Taiwan, this comprehensive Chinese dictionary provides rich entries on words and phrases of all subjects, biographies of Chinese and foreigners. It is equipped with a sophisticated search engine and includes 11 full text books on Chinese philology and 19 appendixes which can be used as handbooks. An online dictionary with over 130,000 terms defined in 130 fields of science and engineering.
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