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Summary: Fantastic dictionary and learning tool
Review: First, let me say that I am a reviewing a technically different but I believe identical edition of this dictionary: New Century Chinese-English Dictionary (Learners, Singapore, 2001 [Foreign Language and Teaching, Beijing, 1997]; ISBN: 981-4070-52-1).This a great dictionary. Tons of individual characters, 98,000 word entries, very thorough definitions, very good pinyin and radical (189 radicals) indices in the beginning of the book and excellent geopolitical and other appendices in the back. The best thing about this is the thorough definitions, both for individual characters and for words. Good quality, illustrative sentences show you proper usage for many terms. Character entries often have example words within their definitions. For grammar/usage the character definitions are more thorough than Far East, ABC, and others. Notes things as "formal" if they're 'shumian yu' and also tells you what field something is from if it's jargon. The definitions are very clear; I can't recall seeing any Singlish. My biggest complaint about this dictionary is that the aforementioned example words in character entries rarely have pinyin and it seems that the example sentences in word entries never do. Even though I bought the 2003 "ABC" recently, and that is more comprehensive for total number of word entries, it is NOT a replacement for this at all. Pinyin with simplified characters (with traditional characters in parentheses for main character entries). My version is well printed, but I can't vouch for the China editions.
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Summary: Great for Classical and Modern
Review: If you study Classical Chinese, you know about the various dictionaries. To be short, this dictionary has an incredible amount of characters (some that Far East and Mathew's don't even have). Classical usages are marked. It is mainly a dictionary for modern Chinese, and the entries are in simplified (with traditional in parentheses). Great quick reference.
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