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A rime dictionary or a rime book is a type of Chinese dictionary that was used in ancient times. Rime dictionaries are called thus because they contained rime tables, which were tables listing characters by their phonological properties. Rime dictionaries differed from rime tables, however, in that they also functioned as dictionaries, and gave other information about the character itself.

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Rime dictionary (143 words)
	The name "rime dictionary" refers to the internal organization into rime tables (or rhyme tables), which list Chinese characters by their phonological properties.
	These books were lexicographically more than mere rime tables, however, and functioned as dictionaries, giving other information about characters, for instance, word meanings or alternate pronunciations.
	In this context, the spelling “rime” is often used instead of the more common “rhyme” in order to distinguish between “rime” in the sense of the rhyming portion of a syllable as opposed to the concept of poetic rhyme.

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