Reading and Writing Chinese

Fülszöveg

This book, based on Prof. McNaughton's experience as a teacher of Chinese at Oberlin College, systematically introduces and defines more than 2,000 Chinese characters. Each character has been selected from lists of essential characters used officially in mainland China for adult education and developed by teachers of Chinese at American universities. Though the study of Chinese characters will always require time and diligent effort, this book has been carefully designed to bring the beginning student as rapidly as possible to a level of written competence that will provide a solid foundation for advanced study in Chinese.
For each of the basic 1,062 characters, pronunciation, definition, derivation, and examples of its use are given, along with a chart showing how to write it. Hints for memorization and cautionary cross-references to look-ahke characters as well as information that clarifies often overlooked aspects of the writing system are provided here.
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Fülszöveg

This book, based on Prof. McNaughton's experience as a teacher of Chinese at Oberlin College, systematically introduces and defines more than 2,000 Chinese characters. Each character has been selected from lists of essential characters used officially in mainland China for adult education and developed by teachers of Chinese at American universities. Though the study of Chinese characters will always require time and diligent effort, this book has been carefully designed to bring the beginning student as rapidly as possible to a level of written competence that will provide a solid foundation for advanced study in Chinese.
For each of the basic 1,062 characters, pronunciation, definition, derivation, and examples of its use are given, along with a chart showing how to write it. Hints for memorization and cautionary cross-references to look-ahke characters as well as information that clarifies often overlooked aspects of the writing system are provided here.
The remaining characters are organized by phonetic elements to allow the student to learn them by groups, thus mastering a great many of them in a relatively short time. Both sections of characters include the simplified forms that have been officially adopted in mainland China.
The book also contains two indexes (alphabetical and stroke count-stroke order), a radical chart, the phonetic symbols used
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