Examples Of Supplement And Revision For The Radical Of "Yan" In Chinese Dictionary

Judging from the current situation," Chinese Dictionary" is the largest Chinese dictionary,and is also a Chinese reference book which collects the most Chinese words as so far.The main body of the dictionary consists of twelve volumes,and another "Appendix · Index" volume,add up to 23 books in all.This dictionary contains more than 375,000 items and about 50 million characters and words,and is also equipped with more than more than 2000 illustrations.The vast and numerous of the dictionary,including multiple levels of the social life,the ancient and modern culture of Chinese and foreign,and even all kinds of religious doctrine.With both ancient and modern times included,and treasuring both the origin and development or the principle of compiling,the editors made all explanations explicit,textual research clear,and language concise.It’s documentary evidence is related to ancient and modern scholars in Chinese history.The dictionary is regarded as an irreplaceable oversize Chinese reference book,and also a great project of the construction of the culture in China.Since the beginning of compiling in 1975,the dictionary has had more than one thousand experts and scholars involved in language joined,from the first volume published(published by Shanghai Dictionary Press)in November 1986,to the last volume(published by Chinese Dictionary Press)in 1993,the whole process lasted for as long as 18 years."Chinese Dictionary" has mistakes inevitably due to manpower,material resources,science and technical conditions,as well as various aspects of the subjective and objective restrictions.Despite a lot of manpower and material resources,the dictionary is still use primitive measure,as a result,it is also failed to achieve the perfect.And along with the deepening of Chinese research,the discovery of new corpus and finishing,large electronic database establishment,etc.,"Chinese Dictionary" has exposed more and more problems,which has also increasingly aroused people’s concern,and carries on the comprehensive revision work is imperative,and the compile of the second edition of the dictionary has been set up in 2012.At present,many experts and linguists have already made abundant endeavors on the rectification and revision of the errors from the aspect of theory and specific examples,and have achieved plentiful tangible results.The author starting from her own energy and knowledge,in make full use of existing materialsand library resources,studies some items under the "Yan" in the eleventh volume in "Chinese Dictionary",Correct the deficiencies and in order to perfect as far as possible.The study in accordance with the "well documented,word for word" principle,to discover,analyze and solve the problem,and then classified and concluded,and finally listed to the name of “revise examples”.In order to provide references for readers,and hope for contribute meager strength to the revision and perfection of "Chinese Dictionary" at the same time.For the shortcomings,also please wishes to hear the correction.