A good Chinese Pinyin dictionary

[smartwander8]

As a Germany speaker, I would like to have a good Chinese Pinyin dictionary to learn Chinese. Give me recommendation?

[liuzhou]

I"m not sure what you mean.

Are you looking for a German-Chinese dictionary with Pinyin? In book form?

I know a good English-Chinese Pinyin dictionary, but have never come across a German-Chinese Pinyin Dictionary. (That doesn't mean they don't exist.)

There are some on the internet. For example this.

[Lyn]

Do you konw the " Tuttle- Beginner's Chinese Dictionary ". I think it is not bad.

[smartwander8]

Thank you ~~

The online multiple language dictionaries are many, and I have good experience to use some of them. To me, they are to use for reading not for learning.

I also checked some dictionaries in book form. Unfortunately, most of them are in English but Germany. A bit pity ~ Guess I need to learn good English first before going learning Germany. How come no Chinese-Germany dictionary in the world ? Did you find it easy to learn Chinese through English language? I think each language is different.

[imron]

How come no Chinese-Germany dictionary

Have you seen HanDeDict?

[smartwander8]

Danke ~ Es gut ~

[Kobo-Daishi]

SmartWander8 wrote:

I also checked some dictionaries in book form. Unfortunately, most of them are in English but Germany. A bit pity ~ Guess I need to learn good English first before going learning Germany. How come no Chinese-Germany dictionary in the world ? Did you find it easy to learn Chinese through English language? I think each language is different.

Get a copy of the De-Han Da Cidian.

I got a scanned copy off the Internet a few years back. That was when I was downloading every book available under the sun. Now I'm much more selective.

In some respects this dictionary is a lot better than most of the Chinese-English dictionaries available. In some areas even better than the Oxford Chinese-English Dictionary, the Far East Chinese-English Dictionary, or the ABC Comprehensive Chinese-English dictionary.

There are also 4 cool appendixes included in the back.

German place names. Includes Sweden and somewhere else that I don't know because I can't read German.

German names and surnames.

International companies.

Famous brands and products.

You might also try to get the GoldenDict open source dictionary program and find the German-Chinese dictionary files in the StarDict format available. I think most are based on HanDeDict, the German port of the CC-Dict open source dictionary (the continuation of the CEDICT open source dictionary project originated by Paul Deniskowski), but, there might be others also. I'm not learning German so didn't really go much into looking for German dictionaries.

Kobo.

[hackinger]

Hi,

http://www.leo.org maintains 6 German-foreign language dictionaries including Chinese.

Of course there are commercial ones from Langenscheidt and co, but also from Chinese publishers. Just search on amazon.de.

Or check dictionaries at chinabooks.ch (mainly Chinese publishers):

http://www.chinabook...bcb8g27en9gakt0

Cheers

hackinger

[Kobo-Daishi]

Kobo wrote:

German place names. Includes Sweden and somewhere else that I don't know because I can't read German.

I guess I should have read more carefully. They got little 瑞士's following some entries, not 瑞典's. So, it's Switzerland not Sweden which figures since there are a large number of German speakers in Switzerland.

And I finally twigged on to what the little 奥's are for. It's short for Austria, not Auckland, the Olympics, the Oscars, Oregon, Oklahoma, Audrey, or the Ottoman Empire.

I guess I should have got that since our former governor was from Austria, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Loved the way he said Ca-li-for-nee-ah. Where he enunciated each syllable individually and slowly.

Who knows, if he hadn't knocked up his Guatemalan nanny, he might still be governator.

Kobo.

[hedwards]

I'm using "McGraw-Hill's Chinese Dictionary & Guide to 20,000 Essential Words" Unfortunately, it seems to be English only. The main reason I'd recommend it, is because it's a bit easier to use. They offer Pinyin, radicals and their own system for looking up characters. The system they use makes it a lot easier to look up characters than any I've seen.

I'm not sure it's worth buying if you need a German dictionary as well, but it does help a ton with looking up characters. I'm just starting to play around with it, but it seems like a much better way, if you don't have somebody immediately available to give you the pinyin.