Chinese-English/English-Chinese (Mandarin) Practical Dictionary - Paperback

by Yong Ho (Author)

The essential Mandarin Chinese resource!

This bestselling bilingual Chinese dictionary features over 14,000 word-for-word entries that cover essential vocabulary for study, business, and travel.

This comprehensive two-part resource is perfect for students learning Chinese or for Chinese speakers learning English.

The dictionary includes:

• 14,000 dictionary entries
• word-for-word equivalents for each entry in Chinese and English
• simplified Chinese characters and the internationally standard pinyin Romanization for all entries
• a character index to make finding Chinese entries easy

Front Jacket

Spoken by more 850 million people worldwide, Mandarin Chinese is the standard language for business and trade in China, one of the six official languages of the United Nations, and the world's most widely-spoken language. Mandarin is also a useful study and reference tool for students of Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese and Tibetan, all of which have strong cultural roots in the language.

Features of the dictionary include:

[[simplified Chinese characters and the internationally standard pinyin Romanization for all entries

[[a pronunciation key

[[a index of radicals, to aid in identifying unfamiliar characters

[[over 15,000 entries

This convenient and practical dictionary is ideally suited to the needs of students, businesspeople, and travelers!

Yong Ho received his Ph.D. in anthropology and linguistics, with a specialty in Chinese anthropology and language, from Columbia University. He served as the Director of Language at China Institute in New York City and has taught Chinese at various institutions in the U.S. His other books include Beginner's Chinese, Intermediate Chinese, China: An Illustrated History, the Chinese-English Frequency Dictionary, and the Hippocrene Children's Illustrated Chinese Dictionary & Phrasebook, all published by Hippocrene Books.

Number of Pages: 487
Dimensions: 1 x 7.06 x 4.45 IN
Publication Date: September 01, 2009