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By far the largest and most up-to-date single-volume English-Chinese and Chinese-English dictionary available and endorsed by academics worldwide, the Oxford Chinese Dictionary has been designed both for English speakers learning Mandarin Chinese and Mandarin Chinese speakers learning English.It has been produced using the latest lexicographic methods and the unique dictionary resources of Oxford University Press in Oxford and Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press in Beijing, together with an international body of expert advisors.The Oxford Chinese Dictionary contains over 300,000 words and phrases and 370,000 translations, including the latest vocabulary from computing, business, the media, and the arts, and tens of thousands of example phrases illustrating key points of construction and usage. There are over 300 culturalnotes giving essential information about many aspects of life and culture in the Chinese- and English-speaking worlds. The dictionary is based throughout on corpus research for both English and Chinese, providing up-to-date evidence on real language. The English is based on the Oxford EnglishCorpus, and the Chinese draws on the LIVAC corpus from the City University of Hong Kong.Extensive supplementary material includes sample letters and emails, guides to telephoning and text messaging in both Chinese and English, chronologies of Chinese history and culture, and features on particularly difficult aspects of the Chinese language, such as kinship terms and measure words.There are also over 50 pages of lexical and usage notes which contain helpful extra information about Chinese and English.The organization and layout have been designed for maximum clarity and accessibility. All Chinese headwords and compounds are shown with Pinyin transcriptions, so that the learner of Chinese can pronounce each one correctly. Chinese headwords are given in Simplified Chinese characters, butTraditional Chinese character versions are also given in brackets after the headwords when they differ from the Simplified form. All the English headwords are also shown with phonetics, so that the learner of English can pronounce each one correctly. The Chinese-English section of the dictionary isorganised alphabetically by Pinyin and there is also a radical index which allows you to look up a character without knowing its Pinyin form.12 months' access to Oxford's online dictionary service - Oxford Language Dictionaries Online* - is included with this book. The site is regularly updated with the latest new words and meanings from Oxford's language research programme, the Oxford Languages Tracker. You can also hear audiopronunciations and improve your language skills with online cultural notes, guides to writing, and much more.

First published in 1999, the Concise Chinese-English Dictionary reflects the changes and growth to the Chinese vocabulary that have resulted from China's increasing role in the international community in the late twentieth century. There are over 20,000 new entries/interpretations among the 4,500 single characters and over 70,000 linguistic entries.

This new edition is a concise reference guide to modern Chinese grammar. It presents a description of the language setting out the complexities in short, readable sections.Features include:a new chapter on paragraph development; Chinese characters, as well as pinyin; translations into English.@contents: Selected Contents: Introduction 1 Nouns  2 Numerals  3 Measures for nouns  4 Pronouns  5 Adjectives and attributives  6 Predicates  7 The verb y{{ov}}u  8 Aspect markers  9 Motion verbs  10 Time  11 Location  12 Duration and frequency  13 Complements  14 Adverbials  15 Modal and similar verbs  16 Statements  17 Questions  18 Subject and predicate  19 Prepositions and coverbs  20 B{{av}} and b�i constructions  21 Serial constructions  22 Emphasis  23 Abbreviation and omission  24 Composite sentences  25 Exclamations  26 Sample Paragraphs  Glossary  Index 

This reference grammar provides, for the first time, a description of the grammar of Mandarin Chinese, the official spoken language of China and Taiwan, in functional terms, focusing on the role and meanings of word-level and sentence-level structures in actual conversations.

Essential Grammar for Modern Chinese is a grammar supplement for students of the Chinese language at all levels.