In the Apabi interface, make sure you select the option (which shows up automatically in the search box that you want to 'search within the entries (zai gongjushu citiao zhong 在工具书词条中检索) to get results. Please make sure to logout when you are done. There are limitations on the number of concurrent users in the Apabi database you may not be able to enter the database when too many people try this database at the same time.

Currently we have acquired 169 titles (371 vols.) in the Apabi, and 99 titles (122 vols.) in the CNKI collection. Selected items from two large Chinese reference databases: the Apabi Reference DB collection (choose 'gongju tushu') and the CNKI Chinese Reference Works Online (link given above). 500 BCE to 1000 CE, not later usage the various appendices, including one with reign eras and exact accession dates of emperors given according to both Chinese and Western calendars, are therefore restricted to the same period. The dictionary is meant to cover only the period from approx. 8,330 individual characters are included, with an abundance of alliterative and echoic binomes (lianmianci 連綿詞), assorted technical terms in various fields, and the identification of hundreds of plants and animals. Kroll, Professor of Chinese at the University of Colorado, assisted by a small team of scholars including William Baxter, William G. This is the on-line version of Brill's A student's dictionary of Classical and Medieval Chinese, which since its appearance has quickly established itself as the major dictionary for pre-1000 Classical Chinese in the English-speaking world.

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