McGraw-Hill’s Chinese Dictionary & Guide to 20,000 Essential Words

A breakthrough bilingual dictionary that makes finding the right Chinese character a breeze

When he surveyed his students, author.Quanyu Huang found that only two out.of 300 used a Chinese dictionary. Their.main obstacle is how existing dictionaries.are organized; either a user needs to know the 簿聶翻radical簿聶翻.of a character, how to recognize or count writing.strokes, or how a character is pronounced. In McGraw-.Hill簿聶翻s Chinese Dictionary and Guide to 20,000 Essential.Words the author overcomes this problem with his.unique 簿聶翻broken marks簿聶翻 method. Each character is comprised.of different marks separated by a physical space.or sharp change of direction at the end of a mark..Count these marks, and you can locate the.Chinese character you need in less than a minute.