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Definition Cantonese Mandarin Tang 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) Tōngyòng Guīfàn Hànzì Zìdiǎn, 通用规范汉字字典 Xiàndài Hànyǔ Cídiǎn, 通用规范汉字字典 (1983) 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

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To select a field to search, use the pop-up menu. Enter the data to search for in the text field, and click on the "Lookup" button or hit <return>. You will be presented with a page listing all characters in the Unihan database with matching data in the appropriate field. Searching is case-insensitive. Details regarding the format and contents of the various fields is found in UAX #38.

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For example, to find all characters whose definition contain the word "well," type "well" into the text field, select the "Definition" item in the pop-up menu, and click on "Lookup." To find all characters whose Mandarin pronunciation is "jǐng," type "jǐng" in the text field, select the "Mandarin" item from the popup, and click on "Submit."

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