Wang Li's Dictionary of Ancient Chinese (push, Wang Li's research is deeply rooted and clearly marked)
Wang Li /2000-6- 1/ Zhonghua Book Company /98.0
Explain that Chinese characters are in the present (up and down) (a little pedantic, don't buy them in the early stage, buy them after a certain accumulation)
Author: Xu Shen Pricing: 97.8 Publishing House: Yuelu Bookstore.
Dictionary of the origin of Chinese characters (Li tui, from the meaning analysis of glyphs, tracing back to the source, very good, but not many words are included)
Gu /2003-7- 1/ Huaxia Publishing House /58.0/ Hardcover
If you have some basics, that is, you don't have to comment on the present, then the choice is much simpler:
graceful
The origin of Chinese characters
Kangxi dictionary.