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| aera10 Newbie Switzerland Joined 5398 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes | Message 1 of 8 15 April 2010 at 2:06pm | IP Logged |
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Hello,
I am actually actively teaching myself mandarin chinese. Now I want to start reading, and I need a good Chinese-English ( or better, French-English ) dictionnary. I asked in four different bookstores and searched on Amazon, but I couldn't find a Chinese-English/English-Chinese dictionnary where the Chinese words are organised by key and not in alphabetical order of their pinyin. Does this kind of dictionnary really exist ? Could someone tell me where I can find one ? (I'm sorry if I didn't post in the right part of the forum, but it seemed to be the most appropriate.) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ^veganboy^ Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5904 days ago 51 posts - 51 votes  | Message 2 of 8 24 April 2010 at 4:43am | IP Logged |
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Me, like you, looked for a good English/Mandarin Mandarin/English dictioanary and bumped into this jewel:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Collins-Learning-Mandarin-Dictionary -Dictionaries/dp/0007261136/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1 272076896&sr=8-2 Of the array of dictionaries I've used, this one is the BEST for me. Edited by ^veganboy^ on 24 April 2010 at 4:44am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| aera10 Newbie Switzerland Joined 5398 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes | Message 3 of 8 01 May 2010 at 9:55am | IP Logged |
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OK, thank you very much !
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| aru-aru Triglot Senior Member Latvia Joined 6442 days ago 244 posts - 331 votes Speaks: Latvian*, English, Russian | Message 4 of 8 18 August 2010 at 1:17pm | IP Logged |
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Most of the Chinese dictionaries are arranged by pinyin, which does not mean you can't use the keys to find them. In fact, searching by keys is THE method used in most dictionaries.
If you still need to look up a lot of words, you'll save much time using an electronic dictionary, where you can input the character you're searching for by writing it. Get a dictionary for your iPhone or something. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Budz Octoglot Senior Member Australia languagepump.com Joined 6358 days ago 118 posts - 171 votes Speaks: German*, English, Russian, Esperanto, Ukrainian, Mandarin, Cantonese, French Studies: Italian, Spanish, Korean, Portuguese, Bulgarian, Persian, Hungarian, Kazakh, Swahili, Vietnamese, Polish | Message 5 of 8 18 August 2010 at 2:34pm | IP Logged |
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Yes, even if the dictionary is pinyin ordered a radical look-up is still possible.
Unless you're doing some remarkably advanced reading an electronic dictionary is probably the way to go. And yes, there are some superb dictionaries available for the iphone. Robert 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| jimbo Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6279 days ago 469 posts - 642 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin, Korean, French Studies: Japanese, Latin | Message 6 of 8 19 August 2010 at 1:59pm | IP Logged |
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The “Grand Ricci”
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| viedums Hexaglot Senior Member Thailand Joined 4651 days ago 327 posts - 528 votes Speaks: Latvian, English*, German, Mandarin, Thai, French Studies: Vietnamese | Message 7 of 8 21 February 2012 at 8:02am | IP Logged |
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The Grand Ricci is a lot of fun, and great for classical texts if you don't want to wade through the monolingual Hanyu dacidian. Funny how they would choose to make it triply obscure, with complex characters, French and Wade-Giles transliteration. The hardest part for me was using Wade-Giles. I wonder how much a personal set would cost, though!
The Far East Chinese-English Dictionary by Liang Shih-Chiu is really my favorite Chinese dictionary, and organized by radicals. Chinese Characters: a Genealogy and Dictionary is really user-friendly and a good basis for learning the characters. The online version is at zhongwen.com. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| seldnar Senior Member United States Joined 7117 days ago 189 posts - 287 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, French, Greek | Message 8 of 8 21 February 2012 at 7:18pm | IP Logged |
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I second the Far East Chinese-English Dictionary. In my first ten years of learning
Chinese I wore out two of them. It also includes many literary meanings (in addition to the more common one definitions) that lots of other Chinese-English dictionaries don't. It also allows you a number of choices on how to look up a word and it is arranged entirely by radical. Edited by seldnar on 21 February 2012 at 7:20pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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