May 2006, Chinese National Language Commission released Linguistic Life Situation Report of China. According to a statistics in the report, the 581 Chinse characters used most frequently can cover with 80% characters on newspapers, the Internet, radio and TV programs.
This book is a quick and easy way to learn basic Chinese Characters.
All beginning students of Chinese struggle to memorize and learn to write the Chinese characters.The First 100 Chinese Charactersadopts a structural approach which helps students to quickly master the basic characters that are fundamental to this language. Intended for beginning students, this book presents characters that have been carefully selected for rapid and effective learning.
The English meanings, pronunciations inhanyu pinyinand alternate forms (if any) for each Chinese character are presented along with a stroke order guide and spaces for writing practice. Printed with gray guidelines, the stroke order guides are designed to be traced over to teach students the standard sequence of strokes used to write the character. Related compounds and phrases are given to assist in vocabulary building. Three indexes at the back allow the characters to be looked–up by their English meanings,hanyu pinyinpronunciations, or radicals. Extra practice sheets are also provided.
This book contains:
Step–by–step stroke order diagrams show you how to write each character.
Special boxes with grid lines help you practice writing them correctly.
Compounds and sample sentences provide easy vocabulary building.
Hanyu pinyinromanizations identify and help you pronounce every word.
This character-writing practice workbook is designed to help students learn Chinese characters in their correct stroke order. It covers all of the characters from the Integrated Chinese, Level 2 textbook, in both the simplified and traditional forms. The layout shows stroke order for each character, as well pinyin and English equivalents. Students practice writing characters in the grid layout provided. What s New in the Second Edition This second edition is divided into two parts: the first part shows how new characters are written component by component, and in the second part, exercises such as crossword puzzles and a pinyin-to-character writing quiz keep learning fun. The new second edition offers a more sophisticated approach to stroke order for the advanced learner: numbered strokes are no longer included, assuming familiarity with character writing.
An introductory manual for writing Chinese characters specifically designed for English-speaking readers. The author guides the reader through the fundamentals of writing, introduces the various scripts used in China and demonstrates how to write with a fountain pen rather than a brush.
A systematic, building block-style plan for mastering the most daunting aspect of learning Chinese—how to remember the meaning of more than 2,000 of the most common characters—is provided in this handbook. Beginning with the simplest of strokes, such as those for numbers, scepter, and earth, and progressing to the extremely complex, such as destroy, insert, and mouse, this manual presents a methodology employing memory techniques to associate meanings with the characters’ visual components. A sequence of numbered panels displays each character in two font styles, and a notation in the adjacent margin describes the character’s pinyin pronunciation. Graphics that identify the components or characters from which the featured characters are drawn, and a listing of both the names of these root components, and the panel numbers that cite their location in the book augment the presentation. Beginners will be best served by using this guide in conjunction with the development of language skills, while those who are familiar with the language will find this book to be a comprehensive reference and refresher.