Zihui

Zihui
Zihui exhibit in the Chinese Dictionary Museum, Jincheng, Shanxi
Traditional Chinese字彙
Simplified Chinese字汇
Literal meaningcharacter collection
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinZìhuì
Wade–GilesTzu Hui

The 1615 Zìhuì is a Chinese dictionary edited by the Ming Dynasty scholar Mei Yingzuo (梅膺祚). It is renowned for introducing two lexicographical innovations that continue to be used in the present day: the 214-radical system for indexing Chinese characters, which replaced the classic Shuowen Jiezi dictionary's 540-radical system, and the radical-and-stroke sorting method.

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