Customer Reviews

Tuttle Concise Chinese Dictionary: Chinese-English English-Chinese

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

This dictionary's vocabulary is quite limited, but what it covers it covers extremely well! So it's not a good dictionary for looking up infrequently used words, but it's a fabulous book for anyone learning Chinese.

Here's what I love:

1) Fits in my pocket, so I can bring it with me anywhere I go

2) Gives a brief description of each character in compound (multi-character) words

3) Gives a sample sentence in both simplified Chinese characters and pinyin for each word. The sample sentences are at an excellent level (for me, at least) of difficulty: neither using obscure words nor dumbing down the sentences.

4) Offers some additional usage hints (like the difference betwen "you4" and "zai4," each of which means "again" in English but is used in a different context in Mandarin

5) Shows the traditional character when different from the simplified version

I would love this dictionary to include (many) more words, but it does a superb job of giving me a much better feel for words and their appropriate usage than any other dictionary I've used.

very useful...but I ordered one copy and you sent two...returning it would be too expensive....

Pocket dictionary. Simplified and traditional characters, Pinyin translation, Chinese-English-Chinese, with examples also in Pinyin, reasonable size and weight. I would say one of the best. !!! And you can read the text without glasses!!! I like Tuttle. See a customer images above.

I brought these for my kids for their CSL class. The books are easy to use, even for third graders.

This pocket-size dictionary is extremely helpful because it goes both ways English-Chinese, Chinese English. It's full of colloquial sentences as examples for each word and it's small enough that you can carry around.

Received in no time. Great for both Chinese learning English or foreigners learning Chinese.

I am in an intermediate Chinese class and this dictionary did not meet my needs. Many of the words that I thought are pretty common are not included. I will recommand a more advanced version.