Xian Dai Han Ying CI Dian [Chinese]

LOL, so why am I complaining about a Chinese Dictionary being in Chinese? It's because the instructions for how to use this dictionary to look things up are in Mandarin Chinese (at least in the edition I own). BUT if you only own one Chinese-English dictionary, ignore that little hurdle to understanding and buy this one. It has everything -- from new to archaic usages -- in definitions for terms. If you're a language student like I am, it's worth either finding someone to explain to you the explanations in English or fighting your way through getting a "mechanical" translation by entering the explanatory parts into something like Altavista's Bablefish. This one is worth the trouble. The set-up it has for its radical chart and index are most excellent, and the definitions are something out of the Oxford unabridged version, and for newbies like me, that's a biggie!