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Cheng & Tsui Chinese Character Dictionary: A Guide to the 2,000 Most Frequently-Used Characters (Paperback)
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Author/Publisher: Wang Huidi (Editor)
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Format: paperback |
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Emphasis: Chinese Characters, Dictionary |
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Level: Beginning - Intermediate |
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Note: Simplified Chinese with Pinyin |
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List Price: $28.95
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Editorial Reviews
Book Description
This pocket-sized guide to the core 2,000 characters provides the easiest
road to success in written Chinese. The many rules and characters of Chinese
present learners with what can seem like an overwhelming amount of
complicated information, and tasks such as writing characters correctly are
often a major stumbling block. In this dictionary aimed specifically at
learners, characters are organized alphabetically by pinyin and are printed
in large, clear fonts (both Kai and Song script) in two colors, making it
easy to discern their appearance and structure, and to distinguish between
similar-looking characters. Basic meanings and examples of use are given in
English and pinyin, and each entry also includes information on radicals,
number of strokes, stroke order, structural classification and the
diagrammatic form of each character. Simplified characters.
Product Details
- Paperback: 544 pages
- Publisher: Cheng & Tsui (June 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN: 0887273149
- Product Dimensions: 1.0 x 4.5 x 7.0 inches
- Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces.
- Average Customer Review:
based on 7 reviews.
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Customer Reviews
review for chinese dictionary, March 21, 2006
book was in excellent condition-very helpful for beginners in
learning the language |
Functional & helpful, February 27, 2006
I bought this book on the recomendation of my Mandarin instructor.
Most of the characters we are covering in our class are in this book and
it's the best resource I have found for figuring out how to write the
characters correctly. If you are looking for a way to look up characters
using pinyin and find out their stroke order, you should find this book
helpful. |
| 2 of 2 people found the following review
helpful:
Convenient Reference, July 13, 2005
I have been using this book for several years and find it to be an
invaluable reference source for 1) characters that I have forgotten how
to write, 2) new characters and 3) stroke order. What this book does not
offer is a means to lookup words in English but this is not its intent,
although a simple indexing of English words in alphabetical order with
corresponding page numbers would be nice. However, since this is a
"character" dictionary and not an "English to Chinese" dictionary this
feature is understandably not part of the scope of this work. But, as a
character dictionary of the most common simplified characters, this work
excels! I strongly recommend it to any student of Chinese and I hope
that Cheng and Tsui are able to follow-up on this excellent work with a
traditional character version. It is estimated that a knowledge of the
most frequently used 700 simplified characters enables an understanding
of as much as 82% of the written language but that the ability to
recognize and use the most common 2,000 characters bumps this percentage
up to 97%. As an essential reference, Cheng and Tsui's "Chinese
Character Dictionary" makes learning written Chinese that much easier. |
| 1 of 1 people found the following review
helpful:
A BIG Help, March 31, 2005
A Kid's Review
I am a seventh grade student taking Chinese and whenever I need help on
the stroke orders I instantly turn to this book. It really has helped me
improve my characters a lot!! |
| 3 of 5 people found the following review
helpful:
the book serves its purpose, May 10, 2001
The book shows how to correctly draw the character proportionately
and using the correct stroke order, but it just has simplified
characters. |
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