A Chinese-English Dictionary: Compact Edition

Series

A Chinese-English Dictionary

ISBN

978-7-5600-9847-0

Publisher

FLTRP (Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press)

Pages

2020

Size

140×210mm

As the first government-commissioned Chinese-English dictionary published after 1949, this landmark work set the standard for modern Chinese lexicography. Its award-winning 1995 revision received three national honors including the “First Prize of the 2nd National Lexicography Award”. The third edition features 100,000 entries (with over 10,000 neologisms), 100,000 contextual examples with natural translations, and cultural illustrations of unique Chinese concepts. Enhanced with a full-text search CD-ROM, it remains an indispensable resource for Chinese learners, educators, and translators worldwide. It is tailored for ELF secondary school students. The dictionary includes 80,000 words, phrases and meanings and rich examples, and highlights key words. The dictionary features an original top-column- bottom-column format with useful information on grammar, usage, thesaurus and collocations, which can be used as a practical guidance