This Dictionary refers to the Ministry of Education’s list of 3,000 essential Chinese characters. We have arranged these characters to maximize ease of use for students approaching Mandarin as a foreign language: characters are first arranged according to their spelling in the Hanyu Pinyin phonetic system. Characters that have the same pronunciation are arranged, in ascending order, according to the number of strokes used to write them. When the stroke number is also the same, characters are listed according to frequency, with more frequent characters coming first. To help students learn and practice characters, a stroke-by-stroke diagram accompanies each one. Also contained in each entry are the traditional and simplified forms of each character, Hanyu Pinyin and Zhuyin Fuhao (Mandarin Phonetic Symbols) phonetic systems, radicals, stroke numbers, phrases, idioms, and English definitions. For greater ease of use and flexibility, we have provided five indices to the dictionary: Pinyin, Zhuyin, radical, stroke number, and frequency. If one learns the 3,000 characters in this dictionary, one will be able to recognize 99 percent of the characters published in various Chinese media. Traditional and Simplified Chinese character, Pinyin, Zhuyin and English.
本字典收錄3,000個最常用字，涵蓋99%各種出版媒體文字辨識率，收錄短詞、成語逾14,000個，同步提供英文字義解釋對照。清晰新穎的編排方式，提供繁體字、簡體字、部首、筆畫及筆順，並雙列漢語拼音與注音符號二種音標。另規劃五種索引*，可即時選擇適合的查詢方式。讀者若學完前500個最高使用頻率字彙，即可有效提昇一般中文閱讀能力達70%，為漢字學習最實用的漢字字典。 *註：五種索引：漢語拼音、注音符號、部首、筆畫數、字頻