字zi6典din2

English

1. Chinese character dictionary (containing entries for single characters, contrasted with a 詞典|词典[ci2 dian3], which has entries for words of one or more characters)
2. dictionary
3. (coll.) dictionary

量詞 — Classifiers

• 本ben3

粵語 — Cantonese

1. 廣義指收錄某種語言嘅文字、詞語、短句、諺語，羅列寫法、讀音、流變，解釋意思、用法嘅工具書；狹義單指以「字」為中心嘅工具書（量詞：本／部）

Examples

• 查字典

  to consult a dictionary

• 漢英字典

  Chinese-English dictionary

• 字典未必一定係啱嘅。

  What a dictionary says is not always right.

  Tatoeba · nickyeow CC BY

• 你可以隨時攞我本字典去用。

  You may always use my dictionary.

  Tatoeba · nickyeow CC BY

• 我攞我本字典嚟查咗嗰幾隻字。

  I looked up the words in my dictionary.

  Tatoeba · nickyeow CC BY

• 你介唔介意我攞呢本字典去用呀？

  Would you mind my using this dictionary?

  Tatoeba · nickyeow CC BY

• 除咗本字典，阿湯乜書都還曬畀我。

  Tom returned me all the textbooks apart from a dictionary.

  Tatoeba · thesilhouette CC BY

• 喺我嘅字典入面冇「冇可能」呢三隻字。

  "Impossible" is not a word in my dictionary.