McGraw‐Hill's Chinese Dictionary & Guide to 20,000 Essential Words

Looking up a word or character in a typical Chinese dictionary is complicated; a task that sometimes baffles even a native Chinese speaker. The following is the most common method used if you wish to look for a character that you cannot pronounce: first, you need to figure out its radical, and then you count the number of strokes of the radical to find the appropriate page number from a radical index. With that, you count the remaining strokes and search for it from another list of characters starting from the page number reference you have got. If you are...