<p>i would recommend the 國語辭典. it’s authoritative, maintained by the 教育部, of taiwan:</p>

<p><a href="http://dict.revised.moe.edu.tw/cbdic/search.htm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://dict.revised.moe.edu.tw/cbdic/search.htm</a></p>

<p>further, you can download it freely (cc 3.0 licence):</p>

<p><a href="https://resources.publicense.moe.edu.tw/index.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://resources.publicense.moe.edu.tw/index.html</a></p>

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2019-07-26T02:43:37.123Z
2019-07-26T02:43:37.123Z
水巷孑蠻
<p>In China,students commonly use physical book of 新华字典 and 现代汉语词典，they don't have official online website. In fact,the work about dictionary digitization in mainland China is very poor.Most people have to use Baidu or other search engine.</p>

<p>As a native speaker,<a href="https://www.zdic.net" rel="nofollow noreferrer">汉典</a> is a good tool for me,but I think it is maybe difficult for non-native speakers,because much content provided you will never use.</p>

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2019-07-26T09:25:07.617Z
2019-07-26T09:25:07.617Z
Zhang ZY
<p>Hong Kong has an official monolingual Primary Education character-to-word dictionary</p>

<p><a href="https://www.edbchinese.hk/lexlist_ch/index.htm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">香港小學學習字詞表</a></p>

<p>It has an English mode too (click 轉往：中英對照香港學校中文學習基礎字詞 at the top of the page)</p>

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2019-07-26T09:40:03.153Z
2019-07-26T09:47:08.027Z
2019-07-26T09:47:08.027Z
dROOOze
<p>Something that can be useful for an intermediate language student of a language is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monolingual_learner%27s_dictionary" rel="nofollow noreferrer">monolingual learner's dictionary</a>, which uses a restricted set of vocabulary to define a much larger set of headwords. A particularly impressive example of this for English is <a href="http://learnthesewordsfirst.com/about/what-is-a-multi-layer-dictionary.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Learn These Words Dictionary</a>, which starts with just 60 vocabulary words and builds up in several layers to the 2000 words used in the definitions in the 70,000 <a href="https://www.ldoceonline.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Longman English Dictionary</a>. Does anything like this exist for Chinese?</p>

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2019-08-03T02:42:36.103Z
Thanks. I'll take a look at these when I have time.
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Is there a good monolingual learner's dictionary for Chinese?
# Is there a good monolingual learner's dictionary for Chinese?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2019-07-25)

Something that can be useful for an intermediate language student of a language is a [monolingual learner's dictionary](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monolingual_learner%27s_dictionary), which uses a restricted set of vocabulary to define a much larger set of headwords. A particularly impressive example of this for English is [Learn These Words Dictionary](http://learnthesewordsfirst.com/about/what-is-a-multi-layer-dictionary.html), which starts with just 60 vocabulary words and builds up in several layers to the 2000 words used in the definitions in the 70,000 [Longman English Dictionary](https://www.ldoceonline.com). Does anything like this exist for Chinese?

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> **username_0**: Thanks. I'll take a look at these when I have time.  

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## 3 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2019-07-26. Score: 1

i would recommend the 國語辭典. it’s authoritative, maintained by the 教育部, of taiwan:

<http://dict.revised.moe.edu.tw/cbdic/search.htm>

further, you can download it freely (cc 3.0 licence):

<https://resources.publicense.moe.edu.tw/index.html>


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### Answer by username_2 on 2019-07-26. Score: 1

In China,students commonly use physical book of 新华字典 and 现代汉语词典，they don't have official online website. In fact,the work about dictionary digitization in mainland China is very poor.Most people have to use Baidu or other search engine.

As a native speaker,[汉典](https://www.zdic.net) is a good tool for me,but I think it is maybe difficult for non-native speakers,because much content provided you will never use.


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### Answer by username_3 on 2019-07-26. Score: 1

Hong Kong has an official monolingual Primary Education character-to-word dictionary

[香港小學學習字詞表](https://www.edbchinese.hk/lexlist_ch/index.htm)

It has an English mode too (click 轉往：中英對照香港學校中文學習基礎字詞 at the top of the page)


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