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 » (Bilingual)

Quanyu Huang, Ph.D., is the director of the Confucius Institute in Oxford, Ohio, and a bestselling author in China.

A breakthrough bilingual dictionary that makes finding the right Chinese character a breeze

When he surveyed his students, author

Quanyu Huang found that only two out

of 300 used a Chinese dictionary. Their

main obstacle is how existing dictionaries

are organized; either a user needs to know the "radical"

of a character, how to recognize or count writing

strokes, or how a character is pronounced. In McGraw-

Hill's Chinese Dictionary and Guide to 20,000 Essential

Words the author overcomes this problem with his

unique "broken marks" method. Each character is comprised

of different marks separated by a physical space

or sharp change of direction at the end of a mark.

Count these marks, and you can locate the

Chinese character you need in less than a minute. This dictionary and guide will also be a perfect complement to your AP Chinese studies.

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

Quanyu Huang, Ph.D., is the director of the Confucius Institute in Oxford, Ohio, and a bestselling author in China.