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Chinese-English dictionary recommendations

Michael-B2

Michael-B2

January 8, 2011

Can anyone recommend a good Chinese (pinyin)-English (and English-Chinese) dictionary? I would prefer a paperback version that is easy to carry around. Bonus points for a dictionary that also calls out the difference between words typically used in mainland China and those used in Taiwan (which is where I'm going). Thanks... Mike
lucvileyn

lucvileyn

January 24, 2011

http://www.wenlin.com There is no better computer dictionary then this one! However, I'm concentrating on Japanese now, after 7 years of Chinese You can download a trial version.
Jon-K

Jon-K

March 3, 2011

Thanks for the suggestion. I just downloaded the trial version.
Oggiedoggy

Oggiedoggy

March 8, 2011

Paperback? I have no idea but Besta makes great electronic dictionaries. Mine (BESTA MT-7000) has multi-language sentences of which Taiwanese is included.
SerjVGM

SerjVGM

June 23, 2011

I found this awesome site http://www.yellowbridge.com/. It not only has the translation but also the stroke orders, pronunciation and examples of combined characters.
monte-j

monte-j

June 25, 2011

a good online free dictionary is MDBG. Just do yahoo search and it is the first or second one that comes up. It has dictionary and a sentence translator and also you can even listen to the pronunciation.
Alan-R-G

Alan-R-G

July 23, 2013

Michael. A good Chinese/English paperback dictionary is Oxford Beginner's Chinese Dictionary. I find that is easier to use than checking the internet.
Lin-Ping

Lin-Ping

November 8, 2013

大家好! A good bilingual dictionary that I have always found quite useful is a dictionary called nciku. Although this is an electronic version, it provides a lot of very good examples and is fairly comprehensive. There are also mobile versions that can be downloaded and used offline. www.nciku.com 希望这会帮你们!I hope this helps! - Lin Ping
524822

524822

November 16, 2013

I agree with Monte. There are many applications that use MDBG and other free dictionary databases. Macs have a great built-in dictionary and Google Chrome and Firefox both have pop-up dictionary plug-ins that can help you read Chinese text on the web.
Oggiedoggy

Oggiedoggy

November 20, 2013

Dict.baidu.com/ Www.Iciba.com/ 看这两个资料初级汉语学生会觉得烦恼的,可是高级些的学生还是尽量看中国人会用的词典吧,因为多看上面那两个网站的词条和例句很有利于汉语联想、造句能力。 If you can't quite read what I wrote in characters, you'd maybe had best not use these two recommendations for now ;)

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