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Chinese Characters

A Genealogy and Dictionary

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| Paperback | 9780966075007

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This dictionary is designed to help students understand, appreciate and remember Chinese characters. It has the following features: -Every character entry includes a brief traditional Chinese etymology. -Genealogical charts highlight the connections between characters, showing the creation of more tContinue

This dictionary is designed to help students understand, appreciate and remember Chinese characters. It has the following features: -Every character entry includes a brief traditional Chinese etymology. -Genealogical charts highlight the connections between characters, showing the creation of more than 4000 characters from less than 200 simple pictographs and ideographs. -Mandarin standards in China and Taiwan are distinguished. -Simplified forms for each character are given. -Character entries list all words which use the character in any position, allowing a word to be found even if the first character is unknown. -English definitions are referenced in an English-Chinese index. -A word pronunciation index allows students to directly search for an overheard word without having to guess the initial character. -A stroke count index lists every character by number of strokes.

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  • Ideogram: Chinese Characters and the Myth of Disembodied Meaning

    In Ideogram J. Marshall Unger surveys and rebuts some of the common misconceptions about Chinese characters, in particular the idea that they offer a connection to meaning that bypasses language. A linguist specialising on Japanese, he pays particula ... (read full critics)

    dannyreviews published on Tue, 24 Aug 2010

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  • Paperback 550 Pages
  • Edition: 1
  • ISBN-10: 0966075005
  • ISBN-13: 9780966075007
  • Publisher: Zhongwen.Com
  • Pub date: Aug 01, 1998
  • Dimensions: 1161 mm x 839 mm x 258 mm Just how big is that?
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