Other Editions
Despite the competition from the CD-ROM version of the Hanyu Da Cidian, Taishukan has not released an electronic Dai Kan-Wa Jiten edition. This owes not only to the dictionary's huge scale but also to the fact many of its 50,000 characters could not be encoded until recently.
The (1962–1968) Zhongwen Da Cidian, sometimes called the "Chinese Morohashi", is very similar in structure to Dai Kan-Wa Jiten and was one of the most comprehensive Chinese dictionaries available until 1993.
In 1982, Taishukan published an abridged "family edition" of the Dai Kan-Wa Jiten. Their four-volume Kō Kan-Wa Jiten (広漢和辞典?, "Extensive Chinese–Japanese Dictionary") enters 20,769 characters and some 120,000 words. It adds early oracle bone script and bronzeware script examples, and proposes hypothetical Old Chinese etymologies and word families.
Kida Jun'ichirō wrote a Japanese book (1986) about the Dai Kan-Wa Jiten, and edited another (1994) about lexicographers that discusses Morohashi's contributions (chap. 4) and Ishii's creation of characters (chap. 11).
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