ABC Chinese-English Comprehensive Dictionary

John DeFrancis, ed. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 2003. xxiv+1439 pp.

This dictionary is an expansion of the ground-breaking ABC Chinese-English Dictionary. It contains almost three times the number of entries as the earlier work, making it the most comprehensive one-volume dictionary of Chinese currently available. Other distinctive features of this dictionary include information where appropriate as to whether a character is free form, sometimes bound, or always bound; measure words for particular nouns; data from both the PRC and Taiwan indicating the relative frequency of entries that are complete or partial homographs; a 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.

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