This is a multifunction dictionary, including 3,000 Chinese characters in the International Curriculum for Chinese Language Education (edited by the Office of Chinese Language Council International), and the Syllabus of Graded Words and Characters for Chinese Proficiency, this dictionary elaborates the level, strokes, orders of strokes, parts, principle of word-formation, etc. of each character in detail, and offers English paraphrase and several words and one sentence consist of the character as examples.

Hu Xing, Associate Professor of the Open University of China, has been teaching Chinese and studying on TCFL (Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language) for many years,and has compiled HSK Chinese Characters 2000.