rime dictionary

English

Alternative forms

• rhyme dictionary

Noun

rime dictionary (plural rime dictionaries)

1. A historical type of Chinese character dictionary that collates characters by rime and tone (pronunciation) rather than by radical. It does not necessarily provide definitions.

Hypernyms

• pronouncing dictionary

Synonyms

• rime book

Translations

Chinese dictionary

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 韻書 (zh), 韵书 (zh) (yùnshū)

See also

• rime table