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This new edition of the Oxford Concise English-Chinese Chinese-English Dictionary has been extensively revised and updated to reflect the most recent developments in English and Chinese. An ideal tool for study, the dictionary now provides authoritative coverage of over 26,000 words and phrases from every major field of reference, including science and technology, in addition to core general vocabulary. Simplified and orthodox Chinese characters are used throughout the dictionary, and thousands of examples illustrate and expand on how and when a word can be used. Also including a guide to the most commonly used radicals and an additional key to the pronunciation of Chinese, this dictionary is an indispensable reference tool.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Simplified?, July 1 2002

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Michael Callahan (Washington, DC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Oxford Compact Chinese Dictionary (Paperback)

This would be a GREAT dictionary except for the fact that it utilizes the mutilated, simplified characters a la Mao Zidong and the cultural revolution. At least both simplified AND traditional characters could have been used. Those characters are disgusting, thus, making this dictionary disturbing.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Improvement over earlier Oxfords, but still not the best, July 6 2004

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Robert Albon "I'm Just The Translator" (Tokyo, Japan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Oxford Compact Chinese Dictionary (Paperback)

I started out with the much smaller predecessor of this dictionary--Oxford Concise (ISBN 0195840488). This Oxford (ISBN 0195911512) is a marked improvement due to its larger size. But today I use the ABC Chinese Dictionary (ISBN 082482766X), which allows you to look up by the alphabetized listing of the complete Chinese word in pinyin, not the two-step head character-second character system used on Oxford Concise, and only use Oxford when I can't find what I want in ABC or can't read a character. Still, this is a solid choice for the beginner.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent dictionary, April 30 2004

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This review is from: Oxford Compact Chinese Dictionary (Paperback)

If I can have only one affordable English/Chinese dictionary, this would be it. (It is far more better than the popular Chinese Characters: A Genealogy and Dictionary (ISBN 0966075005) although that particular dictionary is fairly good.)This dictionary is actually two way dictionaries: one half is English/Chinese and the other half is Chinese/English. Containing some 26,000 words and phrases, it is certainly not a dictionary for the scholar, but a student of Chinese will find it very useful. Although the book emphasizes simplified characters, traditional characters are provided and a student using the traditional characters would be fine with this dictionary.

The real drawback to this dictionary, which is why I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 is that, as other reviewers have mentioned, it does NOT provide the Pinyin for its example phrases/sentences; thus if the reader does not know a certain character s/he will have to find it by using the radically index or go the English/Chinese portion and find the word there (English traditions of the example phrases/sentences are provided). Also try the Xinhua Zidian (ISBN 7801031989), which is another excellent Chinese/English dictionary.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Concise and Manageable
As concise dictionaries go this offering from Oxford is my cup of tea. I have two huge dictionaries: C-E and E-C but when I want to look up a word I always turn to this one first... Read more

Published on Mar 5 2004 by Tom Reynolds

2.0 out of 5 stars Chinese is difficult enough - Why make it harder?
I was disappointed by this dictionary, because it doesn't really seem well geared to people wishing to learn Chinese, but more to Chinese native speakers wishing to learn English... Read more

Published on Jan 12 2004 by Ultimate Reviewer