There are two kinds of dictionaries in Chinese. One is Zidian, and the other is Cidian.
Zidian means characters' dictionaries, or words' dictionaries. Chinese words are Chinese characters.
Cidian means phrases' dictionaries, which collect not only words but phrases also.
The difference between them is the size. Therefore words dictionary is a pocket dictionary, and phrases dictionary is a large dictionary.
Reference: New Concept Linguistics
中文有两种dictionary，字典和词典。
字典只解释汉字。
词典除了解释汉字，还解释词。
它们的区别是体积，字典是袖珍型，词典是大块头。
参考：新概念语言学
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