A Learners Chinese Dictionary: Illustrations of the Usages (Chinese Edition) - Softcover

This dictionary is for learners with intermediate level of Chinese language proficiency and an instrumental book for TCSL (Teaching Chinese as a Second Language) teachers. It includes more than 10,000 entries, each followed by explanation of meanings, English translations, usage, rules, and common syntactic constituents. The rich examples are close to life, reflecting different syntactic functions and usages of different meanings of the entries. Besides, the example sentences integrate cultural information and background knowledge that reflect Chinese social life and peoples cultural psychology. All the nouns are collocated with quantifiers; antonyms and near-synonyms of most of the entries are listed; there is also discrimination of the meaning of similar confusing terms. The explanatory and illustrative terms are also included in this dictionary.