Can anyone recommend a good Chinese (pinyin)-English (and English-Chinese) dictionary? I would prefer a paperback version that is easy to carry around. Bonus points for a dictionary that also calls out the difference between words typically used in mainland China and those used in Taiwan (which is where I'm going). Thanks...
Mike
Chinese-English dictionary recommendations
Michael-B2
January 8, 2011
lucvileyn
January 24, 2011
http://www.wenlin.com
There is no better computer dictionary then this one!
However, I'm concentrating on Japanese now, after 7 years of Chinese
You can download a trial version.
Jon-K
March 3, 2011
Thanks for the suggestion. I just downloaded the trial version.
Oggiedoggy
March 8, 2011
Paperback? I have no idea but Besta makes great electronic dictionaries. Mine (BESTA MT-7000) has multi-language sentences of which Taiwanese is included.
SerjVGM
June 23, 2011
I found this awesome site http://www.yellowbridge.com/. It not only has the translation but also the stroke orders, pronunciation and examples of combined characters.
monte-j
June 25, 2011
a good online free dictionary is MDBG. Just do yahoo search and it is the first or second one that comes up. It has dictionary and a sentence translator and also you can even listen to the pronunciation.
Alan-R-G
July 23, 2013
Michael. A good Chinese/English paperback dictionary is Oxford Beginner's Chinese Dictionary. I find that is easier to use than checking the internet.
Lin-Ping
November 8, 2013
大家好！
A good bilingual dictionary that I have always found quite useful is a dictionary called nciku.
Although this is an electronic version, it provides a lot of very good examples and is fairly comprehensive. There are also mobile versions that can be downloaded and used offline.
www.nciku.com
希望这会帮你们！I hope this helps!
- Lin Ping
524822
November 16, 2013
I agree with Monte. There are many applications that use MDBG and other free dictionary databases. Macs have a great built-in dictionary and Google Chrome and Firefox both have pop-up dictionary plug-ins that can help you read Chinese text on the web.
Oggiedoggy
November 20, 2013
Dict.baidu.com/
Www.Iciba.com/
看这两个资料初级汉语学生会觉得烦恼的，可是高级些的学生还是尽量看中国人会用的词典吧，因为多看上面那两个网站的词条和例句很有利于汉语联想、造句能力。
If you can't quite read what I wrote in characters, you'd maybe had best not use these two recommendations for now ;)