Le Grand Ricci (or Grand dictionnaire Ricci de la langue chinoise, Simplified Chinese : 利氏汉法辞典 ; Traditional Chinese : 利氏漢法辭典 ; pinyin : Lìshì Hàn-Fǎ cídiǎn ; literally : “Dictionnaire chinois-français Ricci” (2001), from the name of the 15th century Italian missionary, Matteo Ricci. It is composed of seven volumes of more than 1,200 pages each, identifying 13,500 characters, and about 300,000 entries of terms and expressions. It is, therefore, the largest Chinese-French dictionary yet, and probably the largest dictionary of Chinese into a Western language.