By far the largest and most up-to-date single-volume English-Chinese and Chinese-English dictionary available and endorsed by academics worldwide the Oxford Chinese Dictionary has been designed both for English speakers learning Mandarin Chinese and Mandarin Chinese speakers learning English. It has been produced using the latest lexicographic methods and the unique dictionary resources of Oxford University Press in Oxford and Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press in Beijing together with an international body of expert advisors. The Oxford Chinese Dictionary contains over 300 000 words and phrases and 370 000 translations including the latest vocabulary from computing business the media and the arts and tens of thousands of example phrases illustrating key points of construction and usage. There are over 300 cultural notes giving essential information about many aspects of life and culture in the Chinese- and English-speaking worlds. The dictionary is based throughout on corpus research for both English and Chinese providing up-to-date evidence on real language. The English is based on the Oxford English Corpus and the Chinese draws on the LIVAC corpus from the City University of Hong Kong. Extensive supplementary material includes sample letters and emails guides to telephoning and text messaging in both Chinese and English chronologies of Chinese history and culture and features on particularly difficult aspects of the Chinese language such as kinship terms and measure words. There are also over 50 pages of lexical and usage notes which contain helpful extra information about Chinese and English. The organization and layout have been designed for maximum clarity and accessibility. All Chinese headwords and compounds are shown with Pinyin transcriptions so that the learner of Chinese can pronounce each one correctly. Chinese headwords are given in Simplified Chinese characters but Traditional Chinese character versions are also given in brackets after the headwords when they differ from the Simplified form. All the English headwords are also shown with phonetics so that the learner of English can pronounce each one correctly. The Chinese-English section of the dictionary is organised alphabetically by Pinyin and there is also a radical index which allows you to look up a character without knowing its Pinyin form. 12 months' access to Oxford's online dictionary service - Oxford Language Dictionaries Online* - is included with this book. The site is regularly updated with the latest new words and meanings from Oxford's language research programme the Oxford Languages Tracker. You can also hear audio pronunciations and improve your language skills with online cultural notes guides to writing and much more. This ground-breaking dictionary is an indispensable reference for any serious student of Chinese and English as well as academics professionals and translators. *Chinese language only. Based on the Pocket Oxford Chinese Dictionary.
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