English-Chinese Pinyin Phonetic Dictionary.

Hippocrene Books. 837 pages. Size 4"x6". Paperback. Includes nearly 10,000 entries. Shows Chinese Mandarin Romanization and pronunciation, along with Chinese characters. Designed for English speakers studying Chinese, this dictionary contains also commonly used phrases and expressions. Each entry consists of the appropriate Chinese characters followed by Pinyin, Chinese phonetic translation, to facilitate pronunciation, and special definitions and examples to convey to the user its proper connotation. Appendices of the world's countries and Chinese provinces.