This is a dictionary of Chinese synonyms compiled especially for foreigners who are learning Chinese. It is written by TCFL experts in BLCU and edited by Professor Wang Huan. Based on the practical needs of Chinese teaching for foreigners, the dictionary has chosen 420 pairs of confusable synonyms from the Graded Syllabus of Chinese Proficiency Vocabulary and Characters and made concise descriptions and analyses on the aspects of word meaning, collocation and usage, together with a large number of easy examples. All the analyses and examples are provided with English translations.

Ms. Wang Huan, born in 1915, is one of the pioneers in the field of teaching Chinese as a foreign language and a professor in Beijing Language and Culture University(BLCU). She graduated from the English Department of Tsinghua University in 1938 and had been teaching successively in National Southwest Associated University, Peking University and Cambridge. She was once a member of Chinese Language Society. She wrote books like Acquired from the Outside—A Collection of Papers on Chinese and Chinese Teaching, B?-sentence and Bèi-sentence and compiled quite a few Chinese and Chinese-English dictionaries.