Pocket Oxford Chinese Dictionary | 
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Product Description
An essential reference both for English-speakers learning Chinese and Chinese-speakers learning English, this brand new edition of the Pocket Chinese Dictionary offers authoritative, up-to-the-minute coverage, with over 88,000 words and phrases, and 130,000 translations, in a compact and practical format.
This brand new edition has been updated to include the very latest vocabulary, including bioterrorism, e-shopping, WAP phone, domain name, and SARS.
The dictionary's clear layout makes it accessible and straightforward to use, and a detailed index system of radicals helps you find the entry you need quickly and easily. Chinese simplified characters, orthodox characters, and pinyin forms are given for each entry. Entries are ordered alphabetically according to their pinyin romanization, and coverage of Mandarin tones is included.
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Customer Reviews:
• Wrong Size. 01 November, 2007
This is not a "Pocket" dictionery. I was wanting something to carry with me on my travels and it is large and heavy. The dictionery is very thorough though if that is what you are wanting.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1BYO0UV8YDUP2
• Good 15 May, 2007
As a beginner in Chinese, I found very helpful the CD-ROM, because it reduces the time of searching the lemmas. Those lemmas are more detailed that those of the Oxford beginner's, maybe the double in number and size. On the other hand, the weak point of this dictionary is that the examples that show the use of the words are not given in pinyin. Only those who read Chinese characters can take benefit of them.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A3GFKE46HUG87D
• Excelente Diccionario 15 August, 2007
Aunque es un diccionario Chino-ingles estandar, presenta buena calidad de edicion, ademas de que el software que lo acompania es de muy buena calidad y gran cantidad de caracteres chinos con su pronunciacion legible (no sintetizador de voz)
- Reviewed by customer ID: APE8CLL11K0JT
• Oxford Chinese-english Dictionary & Software - Strong Points & Weak 04 October, 2007
The dictionary is very full, and has a wealth of contemporary terms. These are very useful in a world that is experiencing rapid technological and social change. The written dictionary tends to give fuller treatment of the entries. The software is a bit sparse on discussion and examples. Sample sentences and usage examples would have been ideal. (I have in mind two older Oxford electronic dictionaries, one Spanish-English, the other French-English, that offered very full discussion of the entries.)
Also, if you are reading along in hard copy and come across a character you do not recognize, or view same on a computer graphic, it is not possible to look it up in the electronic dictionary. Other programs I have come across have a built-in writing table for this purpose. And I have even used a free-ware program that allows you to click the radical, then shows you characters based on the radical organized by stroke order. The paper version does have a radical index (based on the simplified form of the characters).
The dictionary does have a document viewer which can open text files or into which you can paste plain text. You can work with Unicode or ANSI-based text. It has the ever-popular mouse-over feature, which allows you to hover the mouse cursor over a character or combination of characters, and the definition pops up. Here the drawback is that the actual functioning is slow and a bit awkward. Sometimes only one character pops up when you would like a highlighted combination. Sometimes a nearby character is defined.
Finally, you cannot copy and paste dictionary entries into another document. That, quite frankly, is ridiculous. People using a dictionary are obviously trying to build up their vocabulary. Every other electronic dictionary I have come across facilitates the copying of entries so that you can build up a vocab list of your own. This one positively hinders it. (If copyright infringement is the concern - as if someone owns the English or Chinese languages - then at least allow users to build up vocabulary lists within the dictionary itself or a coordinated utility.)
- Reviewed by customer ID: AVRBLP1QIPBK0
• A Good Dictionary For Beginners 12 August, 2008
While perhaps not quite "pocket"-sized, this dictionary is compact and convenient and is a good resource to accompany a learner's first textbook in the Chinese language. Entries are clear and written in a large, legible font, and example sentences (a must for beginners who need as much exposure to the actual composition of the language as possible) are included for most major entries.
Nathan Dummitt
author of Chinese Through Tone & Color
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1DR8R9S0RA047
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