The Supplementation And Revision Of The Radical Of "Xin" In Chinese Dictionary

"Chinese Dictionary" consists of twelve volumes, including20,000characters,340,000items ofwords, more than two thousand pieces of illustrations."Chinese Dictionary" is rich in content relating tothe society,customs, culture and other perspectives. The containing words are complete in style, fine intextual research, clear and correct in interpretation. It is one of the highest levels of the language tool.As a large high-quality language reference book,"Chinese Dictionary" has been highly valued byacademia since its first publication. The community reacted strongly. It also has brought greatconvenience to our study and research. It is an unprecedented dictionary, but also the last large Chineselanguage dictionary which is wrote by pen, with handmade cards and type typography."Chinese Dictionary" has mistakes inevitably due to substance and technical conditions, as wellas various subjective consciousness and objective historical factors in the process."Chinese Dictionary"exposed more and more problems especially with the in-depth study of the Chinese language, theestablishment of large electronic databases and constantly explore new corpus. It has a lot of mistakes fromthe words, the interpretation to the quotation and documentary evidence.For the questions appearing in the Chinese character "Xin" in volume11of "Chinese Dictionary",the writer tried her best to give a certain amount of revise and correction. According to the actual results ofthe topic, the main track line set up from documentary evidence, citations, meanings, entry and otheraspects. Taking into account the integrity and convenience, a single item which has many errors will nolonger split, and go for a variety of errors.For the paper’s accuracy and validity, the writer took full advantage of electronic databases andlibrary resources in doing this subject. In order to draw accurate conclusions, she not only verified one byone in the radical of "xin", but also confirmed from the original literature eventually. Just look forward tomake a contribution to revision of "Chinese Dictionary", and wish it reach perfection in the future.