Reading and writing Chinese: a comprehensive guide to the Chinese writing system
"Reading & Writing Chinese places at your fingertips the essential 1,725 Chinese characters' up-to-date definitions, derivations, pronunciations, and examples of correct usage by means of cleverly condensed grids. This guide also focuses on Pinyin, which is the official system to transcribe Hanzi, Chinese characters, into Latin script, now universally used in mainland China and Singapore. Traditional characters (still used in Taiwan and Hong Kong) are also included, making this a complete refer…
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- Full title :Reading and writing Chinese : a comprehensive guide to the Chinese writing system / William McNaughton ; revised by Jiageng Fan.
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"Reading & Writing Chinese places at your fingertips the essential 1,725 Chinese characters' up-to-date definitions, derivations, pronunciations, and examples of correct usage by means of cleverly condensed grids. This guide also focuses on Pinyin, which is the official system to transcribe Hanzi, Chinese characters, into Latin script, now universally used in mainland China and Singapore. Traditional characters (still used in Taiwan and Hong Kong) are also included, making this a complete reference. Newly updated and revised, these characters are the ones officially prescribed by the Chinese government for the internationally recognized test of proficiency in Chinese, the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi (HSK)"--Publisher's website.
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- Publication Date:© 2013
- Edition:Third edition (simplified character edition), Revised and expanded
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Tuttle Publishing
- Place of Publication:Tokyo
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:© 2013
Notes
Includes index.
The Physical Object
- Description:xxiv, 311 pages ; : 23 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780804842990, 080484299X
- oclc:ocn966493423
- LC Classification:PL1495
- Dewey Decimal:495.111
Table of Contents
Student's Guide. The writing system ; Explanatory notes ; Study methods ; How to write the characters ; The pronunciation of Chinese -- Part 1. 1,067 basic characters and elements of the writing system -- Part 2. Remaining characters of the "A" list, "B" list, and "C" list.
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