A Comparative Study on the Definition of Adverbs - Taking the Dictionary of Contemporary Chinese (the 6th Edition) and the Dictionary of Mandarin (Revised Edition) as Examples

Adverbs play an important role in the research of Chinese vocabulary and lexicography, therefore it is always a focal point in language study. The adverb definition is also the emphasis of the dictionary definition research. Mainly through comparing and analyzing the definition mode of common adverb senses in the Dictionary of Contemporary Chinese (the 6th Edition) and the Dictionary of Mandarin (Revised Edition), this paper summarizes the differences and similarities of definition mode across the Taiwan Straits with a hope to be conducive to the complication of Chinese dictionary and natural language processing.