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, Malaysia and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Japanese

Kanji in this term
辞	典
じ Grade: 4	てん Grade: 4
on’yomi

Alternative spelling
辭典 (kyūjitai)

Kanji in this term
辞	典
ことば Grade: 4	てん Grade: 4
yutōyomi

Alternative spelling
辭典 (kyūjitai)

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) じてん [jìtéń] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [d͡ʑitẽ̞ɴ]

• Homophones: 字典, 事典

• IPA^(key): [ko̞to̞ba̠tẽ̞ɴ]

Noun

辞(じ)典(てん) or 辞(ことば)典(てん) • (jiten or kotobaten) 

1. a dictionary

Usage notes

• 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) (ruigo jiten): thesaurus and

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

The reading ことばてん (kotobaten) is used for distinguishing from 事(じ)典(てん) (jiten, “encyclopaedia”) and 字(じ)典(てん) (jiten, “kanji character dictionary”).

Synonyms

• 字引(じびき) (jibiki)
• 辞彙(じい) (jii)
• 辞書(じしょ) (jisho)
• 辞林(じりん) (jirin)

 

Derived terms

• 文法辞典(ぶんぽうじてん) (bunpō jiten): grammar book
• 類語辞典(るいごじてん) (ruigo jiten): thesaurus

Related terms

• 事典(じてん) (jiten): encyclopaedia
• 字典(じてん) (jiten): character dictionary

Descendants

• Amis: citing
• Kavalan: ziting
• Sakizaya: zitin
• Tsou: ziten

See also

• Korean: 사전 (辭典, sajeon)
• Vietnamese: 辭典 (từ điển)