# McGraw-Hill's Chinese Dictionary & Guide to 20,000 Essential Words - Hardcover

by **Quanyu Huang** (Author)

**A breakthrough bilingual dictionary that makes finding the right Chinese character a breeze**

When he surveyed his students, author Quanyu Huang found that only two out of 300 used a Chinese dictionary. Their main obstacle is how existing dictionaries are organized; either a user needs to know the "radical" of a character, how to recognize or count writing strokes, or how a character is pronounced. In _McGraw- Hill's Chinese Dictionary and Guide to 20,000 Essential Words_ the author overcomes this problem with his unique "broken marks" method. Each character is comprised of different marks separated by a physical space or sharp change of direction at the end of a mark. Count these marks, and you can locate the Chinese character you need in less than a minute. This dictionary and guide will also be a perfect complement to your AP Chinese studies.

### Author Biography

**Quanyu Huang, Ph.D.**, is the director of the Confucius Institute in Oxford, Ohio, and a bestselling author in China.

**Number of Pages:** 688

**Dimensions:** 1 x 10 x 6.9 IN

**Publication Date:** March 12, 2010

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