McGraw-Hill's Chinese Dictionary and Guide to 20,000 Essential Words A New Method for Non-Native Speakers to Look Up the 2,000 Most Commonly Used Characters in Chinese

by Huang, Quanyu

• ISBN13: 9780071629249
• ISBN10: 0071629246
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-03-05
• Publisher: McGraw Hill

Summary

A breakthrough bilingual dictionary that makes finding the right Chinese character a breezeWhen he surveyed his students, authorQuanyu Huang found that only two outof 300 used a Chinese dictionary. Theirmain obstacle is how existing dictionariesare organized; either a user needs to know the "radical"of a character, how to recognize or count writingstrokes, or how a character is pronounced. InMcGraw-Hill's Chinese Dictionary and Guide to 20,000 EssentialWordsthe author overcomes this problem with hisunique "broken marks" method. Each character is comprisedof different marks separated by a physical spaceor sharp change of direction at the end of a mark.Count these marks, and you can locate theChinese character you need in less than a minute.

Author Biography

Quanyu Huang, Ph.D., is an experienced.educator and writer. He is visiting associate professor of.Chinese at Miami University of Ohio.

Table of Contents

Introduction

How to use this dictionary

Chinese-English Dictionary

Index: Broken Marks of Chinese

Characters (Simplified)

Index: Broken Marks of Chinese

Characters (Traditional)

Index: Chinese Pinyin

Index: Chinese Character Radicals

Index: English Vocabulary

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