Hytung Books

The unique Hytung Ancient Book Database (HYTUNG BOOKS), based on Hytung UTF-16 Search Engine and standard Unicode-5, covers a wide array of ancient Chinese dictionaries, etymologies, literature and archaeological writings etc. As a research platform for sinologists all over the world, HYTUNG BOOKS is compatible with Microsoft OS and common internet browsers, and it ends the history of sinology research relying on handwriting, picture replacement or creating symbols when publishing.

Hytung search engine can manage over 70,000 different characters on a universal platform. The natural language search engine can search a string of characters within milliseconds from 30 Gigabyte UTF-16 full text materials. At this time, Hytung Books has collected 30,000 copies of ancient Chinese books and archaeological materials, with over 1 billion characters and 5 million book images. All the data are managed within 10 million records or metadata, and the text and image in every record are associated with each other. It is very easy to review the text by the original images.

The resources collected in the database are primarily focused on about 200 copies of Chinese ancient etymological and classical dictionaries, historical literature, unearthed picture writings such as oracle bone inscriptions and bronze inscriptions, seals, bamboo slips and silk character writings which are organized together with their related images and photos. Some Japanese ancient dictionaries and western classics on Sinology will be added into the database as well. All the ancient materials are full of uncommon characters, and have been edited critically and collated carefully in order to guarantee the database cited as an authority. Hytung has published the revised versions of the two famous Chinese dictionaries, Shuo Wen Jie Zi《說文解字》and Kangxi Dictionary《康熙字典》in 2005 and 2008 respectively.

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