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Langenscheidt's Pocket Dictionary Chinese/English English/Chinese | 
 enlarge | Authors: Langenscheidt, Langenscheidt Editorial
Publisher: Langenscheidt Publishers
Category: Book
List Price: $13.95
Buy New: $8.79
You Save: $5.16 (37%)
Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 119588
Media: Turtleback
Edition: Min
Pages: 504
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 5.9 x 4.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 1585730572
Dewey Decimal Number: 495
EAN: 9781585730575
ASIN: 1585730572
Publication Date: February 15, 2001
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Product Description
Pocket Chinese-English, English-Chinese Dictionary is a convenient reference for everyday use containing a wealth of authentic idiomatic expressions and up-to-date words, Pinyin romanization of all Chinese characters, and a Chinese-English section arranged alphabetically according to pronunciation. Over 40,000 references.
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 Langenscheidt's Pocket Dictionary Chinese/English English/Chinese December 7, 2007
jdarne (USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Excellent book for those who know very little Chinese. I use it daily for reference. I highly recommend this book for those who travel too China or know someone Chinese and just need to communicate with them.
 Warning! Non-standard headword order July 18, 2007
Weary Traveller (Enschede, OV Netherlands)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The format, cover, pages, durability and typography are of excellent Langescheidt standards. BUT... be aware that, unlike almost every other Chinese-English pinyin dictionary, the entries are listed in strict alphabetic pinyin order, NOT by pinyin components or radicals. Thus related words are widely-spread. For example, with mai3 "buy" and mai4 "sell", these are listed first in order, but then we get mai1bo2 "pulse", mai4bu4 "stride" etc. until we find mai3dan1 "pay the bill". In other dictionaries, we first identify the first pinyin character, say mai3 "buy", and then all its compounds are listed. The slight disadvantage of that system is that one might have to look under a few head characters, but the great advantage is in understanding related words.
Even worse is that ma3 "horse" comes before the various mai's, but ma3jiu4 "stable" (with first character "horse") comes *after* all of the words beginning with the various mai's. So ma3 + a...h is *before* mai but ma3 + j ... z is *after*! This is contrary to the universal practice of other dictionaries, and violates the principles of pinyin (it is romanization, not spelling as such).
It's too bad I can't find any other dictionary of this size and durability with correct word ordering.
Excellent beginners pocket dictionary May 27, 2007
L. Conte (Germantown, MD USA)
This is a superb, durable, and comprehensive pocket dictionary that is a great tool for beginners. I use it mostly for its English-Chinese translation which is how most newbies will be using it. Many options are given with each word so you can select the correct context. The great part is several common phrases that use the word you are referencing are also listed. 40,000 entires is plenty enough for me and I haven't gone looking for a word that I wasn't able to find yet. Did someone mention this book is durable? I have really given mine a beating and it is still in perfect condition.
excellent April 13, 2007
Akira Touya (Berlin)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
a perfect little dictionary. yes it might be missing a few words, but it is far and away a wonderfully accessible dictionary that is ideal for everyday use. easy to use and well laid out.
 Good portable dictionary, but not for me January 4, 2007
J. L. Guyer (Beijing)
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
Langenscheidt's dictionary is of high quality and has its merits, though it was not the right dictionary for me. I have two problems with this dictionary: 1. the definitions are very basic one or two word entries, 2. the entries are organized 'completely alphabetically', meaning that they are not grouped alphabetically 'by radical'. I think organizing by radical makes more sense and makes it easier for me to systematically learn groups of associated words. If you are looking for a travel dictionary this is a good one, if you want to read Chinese articles or books or do anything academic I would suggest not buying it.
I had previously used the Concise English-Chinese Chinese-English Dictionary and was pretty pleased with it. I left that copy in China last year because I didn't have enough room in my return luggage. I bought Langenscheidt's dictionary from Amazon upon my return and I dislike it, but, I must admit its my fault for buying this one and I should have done better research. I should have interpreted peoples' praise of this dictionary as being 'a good portable dictionary' as meaning that it offers basic definitions, good for quick (i.e. alphabetic) look up, and small. If you have a strong want for any of these three things then this might be a good purchase.
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