Contemporary Chinese Learning Dictionary (Beginner's Edition)

Author: Xu Yumin
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: The "Contemporary Chinese Learning Dictionary" is compiled to help foreigners with basic Chinese proficiency learn Chinese. It is also suitable for teachers of Chinese as a second language, primary school students in China, and ethnic friends with basic Chinese skills. This dictionary primarily includes Level A and B words from the "Outline of Chinese Language Proficiency Vocabulary and Characters," with a total of 4,337 entries. This dictionary is designed based on the learning characteristics of foreigners and emphasizes practicality. It has the following seven prominent features:
1. Itemized definitions;
2. Word entries are primarily arranged in phonetic order, while also considering the frequency of usage and relevance of meanings;
3. Each word entry first presents the pronunciation (Hanyu Pinyin) before the Chinese character form;
4. The main method of definition is the complete sentence definition;
5. Example sentences are the key and core part of each entry, with 3–8 complete sentences provided as examples for each entry;
6. All words used in the dictionary are limited to the entries included in this dictionary;
7. The entire content of each entry is written in Hanyu Pinyin, with emphasis on spoken forms.