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ABC is *far* more comprehensive than Oxford, but the latter does include more example sentences.
Pros/cons of oxford dictionaries
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I find the ABCs definitions a bit more precise, and it includes pinyin for sample sentences.
Oxford seems to have have more sample sentences overall, but no pinyin.
Easiest way to make the choice: Buy all of them
all of them it is then
one day...Looking at the Oxford examples, it seems like the sentences are very short? not at all turtle-style longer sentences? Basically what I want is a larger more expansive tuttle learners dict, which out of ABC or Oxford is the most like that?
Still being undecided about Oxford/ABC I went for Xiandai in the meantime. I figured that since I'm going to eventually 学会中文 I'm eventually going to need A C-C dict anyway and Xiandai is supposed to be the best for that
Am very impressed with Xiandai and definitely recommend it. Most of the sentences and explanations are too difficult for me, but it's a very nice addition now that all dictionary entries are shown in one page anyway - you can always have a try at the Chinese definition quickly This means I can first read the tuttle/CC entry, then also check the Xiandai. And in many cases I do understand it.
For instance I was looking up 密码 and Xiandai gives me: 对别人保密的号码. And for 艺名：演员演艺用的别的名。I think it's far more powerful to try and learn something explained in Chinese rather than a translation, so when that's possible it's huge step.
On 裸体 it showed verb:裸露着身体 and noun:裸露着的身体.
Still being undecided about Oxford/ABC I went for Xiandai in the meantime. I figured that since I'm going to eventually 学会中文 I'm eventually going to need A C-C dict anyway and Xiandai is supposed to be the best for that
Am very impressed with Xiandai and definitely recommend it. Most of the sentences and explanations are too difficult for me, but it's a very nice addition now that all dictionary entries are shown in one page anyway - you can always have a try at the Chinese definition quickly
This means I can first read the tuttle/CC entry, then also check the Xiandai. And in many cases I do understand it. For instance I was looking up 密码 and Xiandai gives me: 对别人保密的号码. And for 艺名：演员演艺用的别的名。I think it's far more powerful to try and learn something explained in Chinese rather than a translation, so when that's possible it's huge step.
On 裸体 it showed verb:裸露着身体 and noun:裸露着的身体.