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Chinese Characters: A Genealogy and Dictionary
 
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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 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.
Details
  • Author: Rick Harbaugh 
  • Paperback: 550 pages 
  • Publisher: Yale University Press; 1 edition (August 1, 1998) 
  • ISBN: 0966075005

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