21st Century Chinese-English Dictionary

Author: Liang Derun, edited by Zheng Jiande
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Publishing Date: 1999-09-01
Features: This book includes 4,500 single characters and over 70,000 multi-character entries; it also contains over 20,000 newly added terms; pronunciations are based on the "Table for the Standardization of Dialectal Pronunciations of Chinese Words"; it includes a Pinyin index and a radical index for Chinese characters; appendices cover: an overview of China, a chronological table of Chinese dynasties, the 24 solar terms, countries (regions), their populations, and capitals (administrative centers), chemical elements, punctuation and other symbols, numerals, dates, and times, as well as a comparison of the metric and British/American systems of measurement.