I am wondering, are there any dictionaries out there (printed) where I will be able to look up a word in english, and be given the chinese characters with their b p m f pronunciations beside them? Actually are there any electronic dictionaries that will do this either? So far I can only find pinyin, and I am wondering if I absolutely have to learn pinyin if I want to be able to look up words/pronunciations this way.
I don’t know, as I don’t use BPMF much. Children’s ECD in Taiwan might have this.
However, here are some other threads you might want to peruse for answers, too, in case you don’t get a good answer in this thread:
viewtopic.php?f=40&t=15712&start=0
viewtopic.php?f=40&t=6542
viewtopic.php?f=40&t=4501
Yes, there’s one here:
chinese-tools.com/tools/dictionary.html
You will need to go into the small “options” link to the right of the search box and make sure the bopomofo radio button is selected.