Han-Han Dae Sajeon

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Han-Han Dae Sajeon (Korean: 한한대사전, 漢韓大辭典, meaning The Great Dictionary of Chinese Character to Korean, is a name for many Korean dictionaries of Chinese characters. There are several dictionaries in this name, from different publishers. The most comprehensive one, published by Dankook University Publishing, contains over 57,000 chinese characters and 500,000 compound words. This dictionary is a work of Dankook University Institute of Oriental Studies, started in 1977 and still on-going project. This dictionary will be comprised of 17 volumes including index volume, the pages of whole dictionary shall exceed 20,000. There are 9 volumes published so far, and the project is expected to be completed in 2007.

There are other dictionaries in same name, including those published by Bumwoo Publishing Co., and Dong-A Publishing Co.