Interpretation: the largest comprehensive dictionary in China;

Functions: dictionary, Chinese dictionary, encyclopedia dictionary;

Books are the largest comprehensive dictionary in China. Cihai is a large comprehensive dictionary with words, which has the functions of dictionary, Chinese dictionary and encyclopedia. The word "Ci Hai" originated from the famous Han Dynasty stone carving "Ode to Shimen" in Hanzhong, Shaanxi. The emperor's masterpiece Ci Hai is the crystallization of a century and several generations of scholars. At that time, Mr. Lu Feikui, the founder of Zhonghua Book Company, was determined to compile a comprehensive dictionary integrating China's words, phrases and encyclopedias, and its momentum was admirable. Taking the meaning of "all rivers run into the sea", the book is entitled "Ci Hai".

Cihai is a large comprehensive dictionary with words, which has the functions of dictionary, Chinese dictionary and encyclopedia.

The edition of Ci Hai 1999 was revised on the basis of the edition of 1989, and the number of included words increased from 16534 to 19485. The number of words received has increased from 120000 to 122835.

This book is about 4 million words longer than the 1989 edition.

Most of the newly added words are new words in recent ten years, such as "Internet", "multimedia", "genetically modified animals" and "socialist market economy". ?

There are 13 appendices to Ci Hai, such as Chronology of China, Summary of Administrative Divisions of the People's Republic of China, Summary of Names of Commonly Used Institutions, Summary of Distribution of Ethnic Minorities in China, Summary of Countries and Regions in the World and List of World Currency Names. Before each book, there is a dictionary of words and phrases. Indexes include stroke index, Chinese Pinyin index, four-corner number index and foreign language index of titles.