This dictionary, with 71,300 entries, is alphabetically ordered by pinyin romanization of the Chinese terms. Its focus is on modern Chinese, and simplified characters are used. There is an introduction, a user's guide, and nine appendices: I. Basic rules for Hanyu Pinyin orthography; II. Historical chronology; III. Analytic summary of transcription systems; IV. Wage-Giles/pinyin comparative table; V. PY/WG/GR/YR/ZF comparative table; VI. Radical index of traditional Characters; VII. Stroke order list of recurrent partials; VIII. Stroke order index of characters with obscure radicals; and IX. Radical index of simplified characters.

ABC Chinese-English Dictionary

DeFrancis, John, ed.

University of Hawaii Press

1996

2007.066.612