Collins Chinese Concise Dictionary

We are very happy with this book. It came on time and it is helping us in our quest to conquer the Chinese Language.

i am a college senior minoring in Chinese Studies. i recently bought this dictionary and it has been of great help in my mandarin class. it has everything essential in it: chinese characters, pinyin, and english/chinese translations. this dictionary also clearly explains how to look up chinese characters by using the radical (or stroke order) index. the only flaw i saw is in the english-chinese part of the dictionary. although the chinese counterparts of the english words are shown along with its different definitions, only the first translation is in pinyin. the sample sentences where the chinese words are used are no longer given its pinyin pronunciation but are instead written using chinese characters. this gave me a hard time figuring out how to use some of the chinese translations in chinese sentences. but all in all, this is a good book for both english and chinese speakers learning either chinese or english.