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500 Common Chinese Idioms: An Annotated Frequency Dictionary

By Liwei Jiao , Cornelius C. Kubler , Weiguo Zhang

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2011
ISBN
0415776821, 9780415776820
Language
english
Format
AZW3
Filesize
13 MB (13384032 bytes)
Edition
Bilingual
Pages
328\0
Time added
2015-07-05 20:37:18
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Description

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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