500 Common Chinese Idioms: An Annotated Frequency Dictionary
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500 Common Chinese Idioms is the ideal tool for all intermediate to advanced learners of Chinese. Based on large corpora of authentic language data, it presents the 500 most commonly used Chinese idioms or chengyu, along with a variety of synonyms, antonyms and the most common structures, enabling the reader to make educated guesses about the meanings of hundreds of unfamiliar idioms.
Key features include:
- the idiom in both simplified and traditional characters
- a literal English translation and English equivalents
- two suitable example sentences, plus explanations and usage notes
- a Pinyin index and stroke order index.
This practical dictionary is suitable both for class use and independent study and will be of interest to students and teachers of Chinese alike.
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Ladies and Gentlemen,
The book certainly holds all the idioms I was interested in. Its appendix in structural patters is wonderful.
I would have liked an index by English translation, and I would very much have appreciated having the main English translation at the headings of each entry along with the pinyin and character headings. Things such as "Frontier man lose horse" or "Draw snake, add legs".
Michael
(James Michael Ryan)
