A Tally of Dictionaries

Hsien tai Han yü ta tz’u tien

• 1st edn, forthcoming, Peking
• 156,000+ words
• No dating or source for quotations (Chiang 2022)

Hsien tai Han yü tz’u tien

• 7th edn, 2016
• ~69,000(?) words
• No quotation evidence
• Early editions tend to offer better analysis
• A barometer of economic conditions

Hsien tai Han yü kuei fan tz’u tien

• 4th edn, 2022
• ~72,000 words
• No quotation evidence
• The orthography and pronunciations it recommends do not reflect actual usage

The Oxford Chinese dictionary

• 1st edn, 2010
• No accurate word count
• No significant improvement in methodology despite use of corpus data
• No quotation evidence

ABC Chinese–English Comprehensive Dictionary

• 1st edn, 2003
• 188,597 words
• Features the same innovative approach to alphabetisation as Mair et al. (2003)
• No quotation evidence

Hsien tai Han yü ta tz’u tien

• 1st edn, 2000, Shanghai
• ~100,000 words
• Draws heavily on Han yü ta tz’u tien

the rest …

… deliberately obscure their editorial history and can’t be trusted.