《Chinese words (■1) Vocabulary》 - Kango pininshi

…Both of them have changed their forms one after another since then, but they are still alive and well, and it seems that today, Ciyuan is aimed at reading classical Japanese, while Cihai is aimed at a small encyclopedia. There are no complete pronunciation dictionaries that do not use parent characters, except for Chinese works such as Kango Onshi Hui (1958), which are vocabulary dictionaries without explanations. [Yujiro Ozaki]
[Western]
The history of dictionaries in the West is long, with the Akkadian wordbook, created around the 7th century BCE, being counted among the oldest dictionaries.

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "《Chinese words (■1) Onomatopoeia》" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…両者ともその後次々に形を変えながらともに健在で，いま《辞源》は古典読解用，《辞海》は小百科的なものを目ざしていると見える。〈親字〉を利用しない完全な発音引き辞典は，中国の著作としては《漢語音詞彙》(1958)など，解説を伴わぬ語彙集以外には，まだない。【尾崎 雄二郎】
【西洋】
　西洋における辞書の歴史は古く，前7世紀ごろ作られたアッカド語の単語集が最古の辞書の一つに数えられている。…

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