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Mandarin Dictionaries

A good dictionary for beginners should be a two way dictionary:
English- Chinese and Chinese-English.

It must also use the pinyin pronunciation.

Simplified Chinese characters must be used throughout the dictionary.

A radical index is essential to find out the characters, but the pinyin index makes looking up characters faster than the radical index, if you already know the pronunciation. 

 

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Dictionaries to learn Chinese

The Starter Oxford Chinese Dictionary
by Boping Yuan (Editor), Sally Church (Editor),
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Chinese-English Dictionary (second edition) 
by Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press
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Chinese-English Frequency Dictionary:
A Study Guide to Mandarin Chinese's
500 Most Frequently Used Words
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Concise English-Chinese
Chinese-English Dictionary 
(Simplified Chinese characters and pinyin,
 but orthodox variants are also given)
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The Oxford Picture Dictionary
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Langenscheidt's Pocket Dictionary
Chinese/English English/Chinese 
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ABC Chinese-English Dictionary:
Alphabetically Based Computerized
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Mutant Mandarin: A Guide to New Chinese Slang
by Zhou Yimin, James J. Wang
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Outrageous Chinese:
A Guide to Chinese Street Language
by James J. Wang
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Electronic dictionaries
 
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> Quicktionary Chinese

Hear Spoken Chinese - NO Computer Required!
Fully portable, pen-shaped scanner - enables users to easily scan a word or line of text, and view its translation & definition on the LCD screen almost instantaneously.
Contains a voice module - users hear the spoken Chinese word or line of text at the press of a button.

Quicktionary II Pen- Chinese Simplified Voice Scanner- Translator 
by Wizcom
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Updated 08 September 2008