Download or read book Chinese Characters Their Origin Etymology History Classification and Signification written by Léon Wieger and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chinese Characters written by Léon Wieger and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chinese Characters written by Léon Wieger and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Analysis of Chinese Characters written by George Durand Wilder and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Origin of Chinese Characters written by Kihoon Lee and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Speaking of Chinese written by Raymond Chang and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This pleasant, unpretentious account [is] a small stream leading to the ocean of the culture of China."--Scientific American
Download or read book Tuttle Learning Chinese Characters written by Alison Matthews and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This user-friendly book is aimed at helping students of Mandarin Chinese learn and remember Chinese characters. At last--there is a truly effective and enjoyable way to learn Chinese characters! This book helps students to learn and remember both the meanings and the pronunciations of over 800 characters. This otherwise daunting task is made easier by the use of techniques based on the psychology of learning and memory. key principles include the use of visual imagery, the visualization of short "stories," and the systematic building up of more complicated characters from basic building blocks. Although Learning Chinese Characters is primarily a book for serious learners of Mandarin Chinese, it can be used by anyone with interest in Chinese characters, without any prior knowledge of Chinese. It can be used alongside (or after, or even before) a course in the Chinese language. All characters are simplified (as in mainland China), but traditional characters are also given, when available. Key features: Specially designed pictures and stories are used in a structured way to make the learning process more enjoyable and effective, reducing the need for rote learning to the absolute minimum. The emphasis throughout is on learning and remembering the meanings and pronunciations of the characters. Tips are also included on learning techniques and how to avoid common problems. Characters are introduced in a logical sequence, which also gives priority to learning the most common characters first. Modern, simplified characters are used, with pronunciations given in pinyin. Key information is given for each character, including radical, stroke-count, traditional form, compounds, and guidance on writing the character. This is a practical guide with a clear, concise and appealing layout, and it is well-indexed with easy lookup methods. The 800 Chinese characters and 1,033 compounds specified for the original HSK Level A proficiency test are covered.
Download or read book Systematics of Chinese Characters written by Hongzhou Dong and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-03-08 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All of the thousands of Chinese characters were created gradually in history by ancient people. The methods created Chinese characters can be classified as six types. It is very important and helpful to understand some etymology principles on Chinese characters.Even in China, currently few people have learned much about Chinese etymology. People usually learn and remember Chinese characters by their radicals, strokes, meaning and pronunciation. However, few people know why a Chinese character gained its current appearance, and what are the really logic to constitute each of the tremendous Chinese characters. Many foreign people would say learning Chinese is more difficult than learning other languages, because need remember thousands of Chinese characters, comparing with only 26 Latin letters. The most difficult aspect is that we should remember the pronunciation of each Chinese character, other than recognizing the pronunciation by spelling.So some scholars have written books and dictionaries to introduce Chinese etymology. However, in some of these books, only introduce hundreds of Chinese radicals separately. Readers still did not grasp the rules on Chinese etymology so cannot analyze other characters which are not explained in the books. In many books and dictionaries, Chinese characters are classified and sorted by phonetics, stroke types and/or stroke counts. But the radicals and strokes are based on current simplified Chinese characters. Many radicals were contracted or transformed from other radicals or radical combinations. Many of the names of radicals mislead readers.In this book, the major principles of Chinese etymology are introduced. And the names of radicals are showed with the original meanings and the original pronunciations. The major radicals are classified systemically by the natural properties and original relationships. The most important radicals and which have the most types of variants are 人, 手 and 止. So there are three independent chapters in this book to specify these three radicals. If readers grasp the variant expressions of 人, 手 and 止, will open a great door to understand a hundred of other radicals and tremendous Chinese characters.This book summarizes the characters which share very relevant sources, such as 久, 夂, 夊 and 㐄. Some characters are inverted right to left from other characters, or show upside-down forms of other characters, such as 从 and 比, 后 and 司, 癶and 舛. So these characters have the same, similar or opposite meanings. When use these characters as radicals in compound characters, these relationships are shortcuts to understand the compound characters. In most of existing books and dictionaries, radicals are usually sorted by phonetics, stroke types and/or stroke counts. It is hard to image that characters 从 and 比, 后 and 司, 癶 and 舛 have so close relationships, respectively. In this book, they are classified together in the same table or section.This book will explain the etymology sources of about 1,800 Chinese characters, which are compounded by about 250 basic pictographs. Many of these 1,800 Chinese characters will go no to make up of other complicated characters. So through the explanations of a few characters can show readers the whole picture of all Chinese characters. After read through this book, it will become very easy for you to understand other thousands of Chinese characters.
Download or read book China written by Cecilia Lindqvist and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-04-27 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The origins of Chinese ideographs were not known until 1899, when a scholar went to an apothecary for some medicine made of “dragon bone.” To his surprise, the bone, which had not yet been ground into powder, contained a number of carved inscriptions. Thus began the exploration of the 3000-year-old sources of the written characters still used in China today. In this unparalleled and deeply researched book, Cecilia Lindqvist tells the story of these characters and shows how their shapes and concepts have permeated all of Chinese thought, architecture, art, and culture.
Download or read book Chinese Characters Their Origin Etymology History Classification and Signification written by Léon Wieger and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Planning Chinese Characters written by Shouhui Zhao and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-10-30 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the most comprehensive synthesis and analysis of major developments in reforming programs in modernizing the Chinese writing system. It traces the language policy and planning related developments for Chinese characters, with particular emphasis on post-1950 period in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the more recent challenges that technology, and particularly the World Wide Web, have posed for the language.
Download or read book The Chinese Language written by John DeFrancis and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1986-03-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "DeFrancis's book is first rate. It entertains. It teaches. It demystifies. It counteracts popular ignorance as well as sophisticated (cocktail party) ignorance. Who could ask for anything more? There is no other book like it. ... It is one of a kind, a first, and I would not only buy it but I would recommend it to friends and colleagues, many of whom are visiting China now and are adding 'two-week-expert' ignorance to the two kinds that existed before. This is a book for everyone." --Joshua A. Fishman, research professor of social sciences, Yeshiva University, New York "Professor De Francis has produced a work of great effectiveness that should appeal to a wide-ranging audience. It is at once instructive and entertaining. While being delighted by the flair of his novel approach, the reader will also be led to ponder on some of the most fundamental problems concerning the relations between written languages and spoken languages. Specifically, he will be served a variety of information on the languages of East Asia, not as dry pedantic facts, but as appealing tidbits that whet the intellectual appetite. The expert will find much to reflect on in this book, for Professor DeFrancis takes nothing for granted." --William S.Y. Wang, professor of linguistics, University of California at Berkeley
Download or read book The Way of Chinese Characters written by Jian-hsin Wu and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This second edition includes over 200 more characters that the first edition. It now covers all the characters in both part 1 and part 2 of Integrated Chinese Level 1"--Preface.
Download or read book Chinese Writing written by Xigui Qiu and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Long Story of Short Forms written by Roar Bökset and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Origin of Chinese Characters YUAN written by Sophie Ma and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel back in time to understand the origin of some Chinese characters and how they evolve with this book.Chinese characters are the oldest continuously used writing system in the world. Over the time, the set of characters has evolved through various forms. Some representatives include: - oracle bone script (甲骨文), ancient Chinese characters used on animal bones or turtle shells from over 3000 years ago; - large seal script (大篆), a traditional reference to Chinese writing from before the Qin dynasty; - small seal script (小篆), the first set of characters that was standardized across China from over 2000 years ago. They finally become the regular script (楷书), the square-shaped Characters that are used nowadays.Some of the most common chinese characters were created from simplified pictures of objects, called pictograms (象形字). Most of the characters in this book are under this category, so it's easy to understand their meanings by just looking at the shapes. Three ancient scripts (oracle bone script, large seal script, small seal script) are included at the bottom left corner of each page to illustrate the evolutions. The regular script forms with their pinyin (Chinese pronunciation) are included at the bottom right corner as this is the form we are using everyday now.It is fascinating to see how these characters carry their core meaning while transformed into shapes that also align with the styles of different scripts. Sometimes, it needs a little bit of effort to recognize the connections between different scripts. Imagination is the key. I hope the book is fun for all readers, parents and children, teachers and students, chinese speakers and non-chinese speakers. Reading Chinese is easier and more interesting than you think
