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Author Jiao, Liwei.

Title 500 common Chinese idioms : an annotated frequency dictionary / Liwei Jiao, Cornelius C. Kubler and Weiguo Zhang
Edition First edition
Published London : Routledge, 2011

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Description xiv, 309 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
regular print
Contents Introduction -- List of entries -- 500 common Chinese idioms -- Appendix 1: Common structural patterns of Chinese idioms -- Appendix 2: Pinyin index of 500 common Chinese idioms -- Appendix 3: Stroke index of 500 common Chinese idioms
Summary This book is the ideal tool for all intermediate to advanced learners of Chinese. Based on large corpuses of authentic language data, it presents the 500 most commonly used Chinese idioms, along with a variety of synonyms, and the most common structures.
Notes Includes appendices (298-309)
Text in English and Chinese
Subject Chinese language -- Idioms -- Dictionaries -- English
Chinese language -- Idioms -- Dictionaries.
Chinese language -- Terms and phrases.
Genre/Form Dictionaries.
Author Kubler, Cornelius C.
Zhang, Weiguo.
LC no. 2010019805
ISBN 0415598931 (hbk.)
0415776821 (paperback)
9780415598934 (hbk.)
9780415776820 (paperback)
Other Titles 880-01 Cover title also in Chinese: Cheng yu wu bai tiao
880-01 Cover title also in Chinese: 成语五百条
Five hundred common Chinese idioms