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ABC Chinese-English comprehensive dictionary (part 1) by editor John DeFrancis; associate editors Tom Bishop ... [et. al] is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is ABC Chinese-English comprehensive dictionary (part 1) about?

This Dictionary Is An Expansion Of The Abc Chinese-english Dictionary, The First Strictly Alphabetically Ordered And Pinyin Computerized Dictionary. It Contains Over 196,000 Entries, Compared To The 71,486 Entries Of The Earlier Work, Making It The Most Comprehensive One-volume Dictionary Of Chinese.<p>the Single-sort Alphabetic Order Of The Entries Provides By Far The Simplest And Fastest Way To Look Up A Term Whose Pronunciation Is Known. Radical Charts Help Locate Characters When The Pronunciation Of A Term Is Not Known And Facilitate Access To Traditional, Simplified, And Variant Forms Of Characters. Other Distinctive Features Of This Dictionary Include: Information On Whether A Character Is Free Form, Sometimes Bound, Or Always Bound; Traditional Character Equivalents For Preceding Simplified Characters For Each Entry Where Appropriate; Measure Words For Particular Nouns; Data From Both The Prc And Taiwan Indicating The Relative Frequency Of Entries That Are Complete Or Partial Homographs; Unique One-to-one Correspondence Between Transcription And Characters That Permits Calling Up On A Computer The Characters Of Any Entry By Simply Typing The Corresponding Transcription.</p>

Who reads ABC Chinese-English comprehensive dictionary (part 1)?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
editor John DeFrancis; associate editors Tom Bishop ... [et. al]
Publisher
University of Hawai’i Press
Published
2003
Language
EN
ISBN
9780824827663
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Language Learning, Literary Fiction, Linguistics

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