The Starter Oxford Chinese Dictionary

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Summary: Oxford finally gets it right!
Review: This is the best Chinese/English dictionary I've found so far. It's a beginner's dictionary, but hopefully Oxford University Press will learn from this one and apply the same quality standards to their more extensive, but miserably formatted and somewhat inaccurate "Concise English-Chinese Chinese-English Dictionary". This dictionary is very easy to read. The lookup words are in large, blue print. Multiple definitions are bulleted and numerically categorized by noun, adverb, etc. Word definitions also contain the Chinese characters and examples of usage. There are radical and character indices, rules for writing characters, and a section on measure words. The English to Chinese section also contains the measure words in the definitions, as well as British and U.S. English spellings if there is a difference. There are also many language usage tips throughout the dictionary.

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Summary: get the Oxford Chinese Dictionary instead
Review: Why get the lesser, shorter version of the Oxford Chinese Dictionary when one could get the whole version for about the same price? This dictionary is basically a shorter version of Oxford's more comprehensive dictionary, and the student of Chinese will soon outgrow it. You are better off getting the Oxford Chinese Dictionary (0195968336).