Chinese-English etymological dictionary, looking for it...

[Guest alfredo]

Do you know of any?

Any less than 20 years old and relatively widely available?

[markalexander100]

Do you want etymologies of words or characters? If characters, for research or to help you learn them?

If the latter, http://www.zhongwen.com/m/hello.htm gets good reviews.

[Guest alfredo]

Thanks!

I'm placing an order now.

Is there anything like this for whole words aswell? Or has this dictionary that aswell?

[Guest alfredo]

I have it now, and it's great!

Just one problem...

I've browsed through it. I've tried to find one character, and I couldn't because the character I tried to find was a 'simplified' one and all the characters in the book, I think, are 'traditional' that's sort of a problem, don't you think?

Especially when you're reading a book written in simplified Chinese.

[roddy]

I just had a look through my copy and right enough, you don't seem to be able to look up simplified characters.

Of course, if you look the simplified character up in another dictionary it'll probably show you the traditional character and then you . . .

Roddy

[Guest alfredo]

Well yes, I could try and find the characters in that way...

But are there any other genealogical/etymological dictionaries that don't have this problem?

And are about as good?