Being in the first volume of “A Series of Books by the Scholars of BLCU”, the book encompasses the major issues as follows: “the semantic conditions of the emptiness of notional words”, "the restriction mechanism of the orders of coordination words in the Pre-Qin Dynasty”, "the issues in the investigations of the ancient meanings”, "the methods of differentiating homonyms and polysemous words”, "the boundary between the polysemous words and homonyms”, "the main types of the confusing words in the interlanguage”, "the characteristics and methods of differentiating confusing words”, "the types and characteristics of the wrong deduction of the meanings of words”, "the suggestions on explaining the polysemous words in Chinese dictionaries and the methods of dealing with the synonyms and near-synonyms in dictionaries”, etc. With hot issues and difficulties the linguistic circles focus on included in it, this is a superb book of great academic value for Chinese language researchers and students.

Zhang Bo is a Professor of BLCU supervising PhD candidates, Director of the Center for Studies of Chinese as a Second Language of BLCU and Editor-in-Chief of Chinese Teaching in the World. He has been committed to the studies of Chinese lexicology and Chinese characters and enjoyed great success in these fields.