Sinosphere Blog: What’s in a Word? A Chinese Dictionary Updates

The revised edition of the Standard Dictionary of Modern Chinese has just been released, and with it, more than 100 new terms — many slang or online neologisms — have been granted admission into the august realm of official Chinese lexicons.

















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