The Pinyin Chinese-English Dictionary

Author: Beijing Foreign Language Institute
List Price: $59.95
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ISBN: 0471867969
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (23 March, 1982)
Sales Rank: 340,063
Average Customer Rating: 4 out of 5

Customer Reviews

Rating: 4 out of 5
Better than Oxford (Pinyin users only)
Having studied Chinese for 5 years using the same Oxford dictionary, I thought I could find no better resource in my studies. However, I stumbled upon this dictionary at my university library and have fallen in love. It provides the pinyin accessibility as well as a good radical index for those characters you can't pronounce. It also provides a nice selection of variants with each character - and it's a paperback!

My only complaints are the price (a bit high) and the tiny print. However, I've yet to see a decent Chinese-English dictionary without tiny print.

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