《 Xīnhuá cídiǎn 》 shōu de shì cíyǔ, 《 Xīnhuá zìdiǎn 》 shōu de zhǔyào shì dānzì.
The Xinhua Word Dictionary lists words, while the Xinhua Dictionary mainly lists single characters.
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Not the 新华字典, the pocket character dictionary almost every Chinese schoolchild owns. 字典 is a dictionary of characters, 词典 a dictionary of words.
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First published by the Commercial Press in 1980 and revised several times since, it also explains names and terms from history, geography and science, not only everyday words.
