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The Kangxi Dictionary (康熙字典; Kangxi Zidian) was a dictionary published in 1716 and named in honour of the Qing Dynasty Emperor Kangxi of China.
The dictionary contains some 47,000 plus entries, with Chinese characters ordered under 214 radicals together with the pronunciation in traditional fanqie spelling, together with references to books, works and dictionaries which contain the entry character.
It also contained rime tables with characters ordered under rime classes, tone, and initial syllable sounds.
