1, word order search method. According to the first letter of a word in Chinese Pinyin, you can find the page number of the pinyin syllable in the text in the Table of Chinese Pinyin Syllables, and then look it up in that page according to the tone of the word. Anyone who wants to look up words that only know the pronunciation but don't know the writing or meaning can use this method, but he must be familiar with the alphabetical order and syllables of Chinese Pinyin.
2. Radical search method. When looking up a word, we must first determine the radical of the word, and then find out the page number of the word belonging to this radical in the radical dictionary, so that we can look up the word from the text according to the number of strokes except the radical. Some words are placed under different radicals in the dictionary, for example, "Gong" can be found in both "Gong" and "Li". This method can be used to look up words that only know the writing method but not the sound and meaning, but you must be familiar with the common radicals of Chinese characters.
3. Stroke search method. This method should be used to find words with unknown pronunciation and obscure radicals. As long as the number of strokes of a word is accurate, the page number of the word in the text can be found in the dictionary's "stroke index of difficult words"