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By far the largest, most authoritative and up-to-date single-volume Chinese-English and English-Chinese dictionary in print, the Oxford Chinese Dictionary is the result of a remarkable collaboration of scholars working in Oxford, Hong Kong, and mainland China. It has been produced using the latest lexicographic methods and is based on research in both the Oxford English Corpus and the LIVAC corpus from the City University of Hong Kong.
The result is truly a definitive dictionary, with over 300,000 words and phrases and 370,000 translations, including the latest vocabulary from computing, business, the media, and the arts, as well as tens of thousands of example phrases illustrating key points of construction and usage. There are over 300 cultural notes giving essential information about many aspects of life and culture in the Chinese- and English-speaking worlds. Extensive supplementary material includes sample letters and emails, guides to telephoning and text messaging in both Chinese and English, chronologies of Chinese history and culture, and features on particularly difficult aspects of the Chinese language. There are also over 50 pages of lexical and usage notes which contain helpful information about the Chinese and English languages.
All the Chinese headwords are shown with Pinyin and tones, so that the learner of Chinese can pronounce each one correctly. Chinese headwords are given in simplified Chinese characters but traditional Chinese character versions are also given in brackets when they differ from the simplified form. All other characters in the dictionary, such as compounds and examples, are shown in simplified characters. The Chinese-English section of the dictionary is organized alphabetically by Pinyin and there is also a radical index which allows you to look up a character without knowing its Pinyin form.
Authoritative and comprehensive, and packed with helpful features, this ground-breaking dictionary is an indispensable reference for any serious student of Mandarin Chinese or English as well as professionals and translators.
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A full-version, modern English-Chinese/Chinese-English dictionary has been long awaited. With 300,000-plus words and phrases, this work--the largest one-volume bilingual dictionary of its kind--was developed through the cooperation of Oxford University Press, and Foreign Language and Teaching Research Press in Beijing. Translators and scholars from the US, UK, and China collaborated for six years to produce this bilingual dictionary with modern idiomatic coverage, authority, currency, and accuracy. It is based on two authoritative corpuses: the Oxford English Corpus for English and the LIVAC corpus from the City University of Hong Kong for Chinese. With a clear, accessible layout, the volume is arranged with Pinyin transcriptions in simplified Chinese characters and then traditional Chinese characters if they differ from the simplified form. Lookup in Chinese is easily accessible via Pinyin and radical indexes. Included is a wide range of vocabulary in general, along with that pertinent to special subjects.The 370,000 translations represent examples of words used in everyday circumstances, along with tens of thousands of example phrases illustrating key points of construction and usage. The volume features wide coverage of North American English and British English; exclusive British or North American usage is marked. Over 50 pages of boxed lexical/usage notes highlight issues specific to the Chinese- and English-speaking worlds. This dictionary includes over 300 cultural notes that cover aspects of life and culture in both worlds. Readers are provided with the techniques and vocabulary required for effective written and verbal communication in a variety of media and circumstances (modern letters, e-mail, telephone, SMS). After the initial purchase, users have 12-month access to an online dictionary service with regular updates of new words, audio pronunciations, and language learning help. This impressive dictionary has great potential for becoming a mainstay. Summing Up: Essential. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers. N. N. Xiao University of Southern California
