Far East Chinese-English Dictionary

Far East Chinese-English Dictionary (遠東漢英大辭典)
Far East Book Co., 1999
ISBN: 9576122317

This dictionary is very comprehensive containing a total of 7,331 characters. The dictionary is indexed by radicals, but there are indexes of Zhuyin Fuhao, Gwoyeu Romatzyh and Hanyu Pinyin at the back of the dictionary. There are radical and stroke number indexes at the front of the dictionary.

In the main text Zhuyin Fuhao is used to indicate the pronunciation of all characters and words. Each character also has Gwoyeu Romatzyh and Hanyu Pinyin. Common words are highlighted in red as can be seen in the sample text below.

sample text of far east chinese-english dictionary

This dictionary also contains quite a lot of four character idioms (成語) which makes it a useful reference for more advanced learners.