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Definition Cantonese Soengmou San Zidin (商務 新字典) Mandarin Zhuang Tang Fanqie Japanese Japanese On Japanese Kun Hangul Korean romanization Vietnamese Cihai (辭海, Traditional) Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn (漢語大字典) Kāngxī Zìdiǎn (康熙字典) Sòng Běn Guǎng Yùn (宋本廣韻) Soengmou San Zidin (商務 新字典) Tōngyòng Guīfàn Hànzì Zìdiǎn (通用规范汉字字典) Xiàndài Hànyǔ Cídiǎn (通用规范汉字字典, 1983) Dai Kanwa Jiten (大漢和辞典) Cheung-Bauer, Representation of Cantonese with Chinese Characters (2002) Cowles, Pocket Dictionary of Cantonese (1999) Fenn, Five Thousand Dictionary (1979) Karlgren, Grammata Serica Recensa (1957) Karlgren, Analytic Dictionary of Chinese and Sino-Japanese (1974) Lau, Practical Cantonese-English Dictionary (1977) Matthews, Chinese-English Dictionary (1975) Meyer-Wempe, Student’s Cantonese-English Dictionary (1947) Nelson, Modern Reader’s Japanese-English Character Dictionary (1974) Simplified Chinese Traditional Chinese Semantic Variant Specialized Semantic Variant Spoofing Variant Z-variant

Whole words

 

This page can be used to search the Unihan database against a limited set of properties.

Use the drop-down menu to select a property to search, enter a search string in the text field, then click the “Lookup” button. You will be presented with a page listing all ideographs in the Unihan database with matching data in the selected property. Searching is case-insensitive, and may optionally match only whole words by selecting the “Whole words” checkbox. Details regarding properties can be found in UAX #38.

For example, to find all ideographs whose definition contain the word “well,” enter “well” into the text field, select the “Definition” item in the drop-down menu, then click the “Lookup” button; to find all ideographs whose Mandarin reading is “jǐng,” enter “jǐng” into the text field, select the “Mandarin” item in the drop-down menu, then click on “Lookup” button.

Note that this is a preliminary version of a Unihan database searching facility. More features and properties may be added in the future.