21st Century Chinese-English Dictionary

Description

21st Century Chinese-English Dictionary

21世纪汉英词典

Author: Liang Derun

Order No. 15905

ISBN-13: 9787119024004

ISBN-10: 7119024000

Binding: Hardcover

Publisher: Foreign Languages Press

Pub Year: 2003

Pages: 813

Language: Chinese and English

Size: 6 x 8.5

Price: $24.95

This dictionary consists of 75,000 entries of which 20,000 are new, including words and compound words from many disciplines. The lexical entries are primarily everyday words, supplemented with cultural background information. Both ancient and contemporary words are included with emphasis on the latter. Special care has been taken to incorporate new words that occur frequently in newspapers and periodicals. All background info descriptions are provided in Chinese and English, and entries are listed by pinyin.

Attached the index of Chinese pinyin phonetics & strokes of Chinese characters. Appendix includes information of China; summary of Chinese dynasties; area of countries; resident & capital; chemical elements; punctuation; numeral, date & time; comparison of metric system & metrology of U.K. & U.S.

Note: ISBN 7119024019 on the jacket of this book was printed wrong, which is for 21st Century English-Chinese Dictionary. The correct ISBN should have been 7119024000.