TO THE QUESTION OF TYPOLOGY OF CHINESE DICTIONARIES
The article examines seven types of dictionaries: explanatory dictionaries, phraseological dictionaries, dictionaries of systemic relations of words, etymological (historical) dictionaries, dictionaries of neologism, dialectal (regional) dictionaries and dictionaries of non-standard vocabulary. The core of the comparison is with the types of the dictionaries of the Russian language. Special attention is paid to Chinese explanatory dictionaries and also the very type of this kind of dictionaries, which is called explanatory-encyclopedic dictionaries. Such Chinese dictionary not only has all the properties of the explanatory dictionary, but also includes some encyclopedic information - this is the definition of concepts and terms in the major branches of knowledge, information about historical facts and prominent figures of science, literature and arts (personalities), different kinds of proper names (geographical names, etc.). The article presents the types of above-mentioned dictionaries with examples, some types of Chinese dictionaries compared with Russian ones. It turns out that some types of dictionaries exist in Russia but not in China, and vice versa. Comparison between Russian and Chinese dictionaries shows that the Russian and Chinese lexicography have features of similarities and differences.