Considering the inappropriateness of the existing word lists for teaching Chinese as a foreign language, the paper discusses a range of issues aiming to build up a new bilingual increased listing, through a dictionary grammar-coursebook chaining. The expected outcome is a huge list including lexical entries, lexical rating of all the items targeted, word classes assignment, translation equivalence, exemplification, syntactic features rendered explicit in the sentence frame, subsets of features as well as indications of the translation techniques used.