Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #86576 in Books
• Published on: 2000-04-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 920 pages

Customer Reviews

Best at what it does
This is the best Chinese-English dictionary I've ever seen. The ABC format is an important innovation, much better suited to the student of Chinese as a foreign language. But why is there no English-Chinese section? Almost nobody makes dictionaries like that for Chinese. If you are one of those people who are the only ones that publishers of Chinese language books consider when designing their books who want only a Chinese-English dictionary without an English-Chinese section then you will not be disappointed. One other thing, it only lists characters by themself when they are used by themselves, thus if you look up a monosyllabic word you can be sure that it can be used by itself.

V Good - but would really like English-Chinese version also
I started learning Chinese (Putonghua/Pinyin) 9 months ago and I find this dictionary to be VERY GOOD! There is some very interesting information about the language and culture included.

However it is Chinese to English only so I have a problem if I wish to find the chinese for 'Cinnamon' or '(Wedding) Anniversary'.

(This is why I rate the book to be a 9 instead of a 10).

I would like to respectfully request the Publishers for an English-Chinese companion book. (As the original was produced using computer technology, I think this could be acheived with relatively less effort).

Finally I would like to take the chance to say a BIG THANK YOU to the editor and all the production team for producing something so fine!

PURITAN
I bought the dictionary in Shanghai. Can be useful but you made me lose a bet. What about the word "boqi?" Did you ask Monica if President C...?