The Commercial Press Learners Dictionary of Contemporary Chinese

The dictionary is so far the first Chinese dictionary designed specifically for intermediate foreign learners of Chinese. Features: The head-characters and headwords included are the most common ones in modern Chinese, and the senses given are those an intermediate foreign learner of Chinese must learn, understand and use correctly. LDCC marks a head-character either as a word or as a morpheme when it is used in a certain sense. Without compromising its accuracy, the definition is given in terms as simple as possible so that it is easy for non-native learners to understand. The examples are plentiful, simple and short, mostly to the point and effective. More attention is paid to the context of the use of each word, i.e. to explaining the actual usage of the word, which is what learners of Chinese most need. In each sense of a head-character are listed words in which the head-character comes both first and last.