Download or read book Dictionary of 6 500 Chinese characters simplified with fast look up written by Ian Low and published by Goldcrest Publications. This book was released on 2012 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chinese to English Dictionary Simplified Characters written by Ian Low and published by Goldcrest Publications. This book was released on 2012 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Simplified Chinese Character Dictionary Pocket Edition written by Adrian van Amstel and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-23 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you often have difficulty finding a particular character in a standard Chinese dictionary? Do you often fail to remember characters, though you have seen and looked them up several times? Don't you think one of the reasons could be that characters that look similar to others are not grouped together? And don't you think that the etymological background of characters (their historical development) could and should be explained better in order to understand the reason for all those dots and strokes? If your answer to these questions is 'yes', then help could be on its way within seconds. The Simplified Chinese Character Dictionary and its 'parent', the Chinese Character Dictionary, both contain several new features that make looking up, learning and remembering Chinese characters more effective and more fun:* characters are arranged by the phonetic part that in most characters is relatively easy to distinguish; by grouping characters that have the same phonetic into series, characters that look almost similar can be compared and studied together;* any character can be found by stripping it first of its radicals, and then splitting the remaining phonetic into components. Phonetic and character can then be found under one of these components;* more than 5,700 different character shapes can be found using the same 3-step method. Examples are given of their usage in daily or literary Chinese, and many pinyin transliterations are given;* counting strokes is not necessary; most characters can be found within seconds;* almost all phonetics are supplied with an etymological explanation, which are helpful for better understanding of the historical background of phonetics and characters. Moreover, they are very effective in helping with remembering characters and distinguishing them from others that look similar;* a 30-page introduction is included, in which the method used for looking up characters is explained step by step, and illustrated with many examples. It also explains how to distinguish radicals, and explains the different kinds of radicals. Moreover, the introduction contains a brief overview of the historical development of Chinese characters in general.The Simplified Chinese Character Dictionary is based on the Chinese Character Dictionary (CCD). It differs from the latter in that it only contains simplified character entries. If a character has a different traditional version, then that is only given in brackets behind its simplified counterpart. In contrast, the CCD contains both simplified and traditional character entries, which can be searched for independently. Another difference is that the example words and phrases in the Simplified CCD are entirely in simplified Chinese, while in the CCD these are primarily in traditional Chinese.The Simplified Chinese Character Dictionary is primarily for students of Chinese in the beginning years of their study, who want to focus on learning simplified characters as quickly as possible. In contrast, the CCD can be used by people who use traditional and/or simplified script.
Download or read book Easy Lookup Chinese Character Dictionary written by Ian Low and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-22 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Chinese character to English dictionary, the most common 12,000 simplified and traditional Chinese characters are combined into a single index and dictionary listing. This is achieved using a new easy lookup radicals index devised by the author.The benefit of this new radicals index is:1) Characters are listed under radicals that strictly occur at the start of each character.2) Simplified and Traditional characters are listed in the same radicals index.3) The 90 radicals in this list can also be used to describe stroke writing order.This dictionary also includes in simplified and traditional characters, the 3 primer classics: The Three Character Classic, The Hundred Surnames, and the Thousand Character Essay.
Download or read book Chinese Character Dictionary Pocket Edition written by Adrian Amstel and published by . This book was released on 2018-04 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chinese Character Dictionary (CCD) contains several new features that make looking up, learning and remembering Chinese characters more effective and more fun:- characters are arranged by phonetic, instead of in order of the sound as written in pinyin. - users of the CCD can find any character by stripping it first of its radicals, and then splitting the remaining phonetic into components. The phonetic can be found under one of its components. - about 7,500 traditional and 1,500 simplified characters can be found using the same 3-step method. Examples are given of their usage, and many pinyin transliterations are given.- counting strokes is not necessary, and most characters can be found within seconds. Looking up new characters is faster and less frustrating compared with traditional methods. - etymological explanations are included and not only help the user to understand the historical background of phonetics and characters, but are also very effective in helping the user to remember them and distinguish them from others that look similar.
Download or read book Chinese Character Fast Finder written by Laurence Matthews and published by . This book was released on 2005-03-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new and innovative study aid that allows the user to find Chinese characters rapidly and intuitively from their appearance alone.
Download or read book Chinese by Numbers written by David J. Pearce and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese by Numbers presents the ultimate method to find Chinese characters fast. It does some things that no other Chinese reference book has ever tried. With more characters and its unique features it is the salvation of any person reading Chinese and frequently looking up new characters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ---- What makes it so special? ----- > It includes nearly 8000 entries so you can be sure that if the character exists it is almost certainly in this book. Most dictionaries have only about half that so you could be looking up rare characters that aren't even listed in them! > The characters are presented in a unique way that represents the character's commonness or rarity via its font size. You know at a glance if the character is an important or rarely-used character. > Each character has a unique entry number making it quick to find in the body of the text. > Most of all it has an ingenious method for finding characters using any part of the character. No more struggling with radicals and stroke counts, any part of the character can be used as a lookup. And you can use your knowledge of the most simple characters to help you quickly find the complex ones. > You can even join two parts together and search for them in combination. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . With this book you can find a character and its meaning in seconds! It is truly magic. You should try it and you will keep it beside you whenever you are studying Chinese. This book is an essential aid for anyone learning to read Chinese characters.
Download or read book Simplified Chinese Character Dictionary written by Adrian Van Amstel and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-19 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you often have difficulty finding a particular character in a standard Chinese dictionary? Do you often fail to remember characters, though you have seen and looked them up several times? Don't you think one of the reasons could be that characters that look similar to others are not grouped together? And don't you think that the etymological background of characters (their historical development) could and should be explained better in order to understand the reason for all those dots and strokes? If your answer to these questions is 'yes', then help could be on its way within seconds. The Simplified Chinese Character Dictionary and its 'parent', the Chinese Character Dictionary, both contain several new features that make looking up, learning and remembering Chinese characters more effective and more fun:* characters are arranged by the phonetic part that in most characters is relatively easy to distinguish; by grouping characters that have the same phonetic into series, characters that look almost similar can be compared and studied together;* any character can be found by stripping it first of its radicals, and then splitting the remaining phonetic into components. Phonetic and character can then be found under one of these components;* more than 5,700 different character shapes can be found using the same 3-step method. Examples are given of their usage in daily or literary Chinese, and many pinyin transliterations are given;* counting strokes is not necessary; most characters can be found within seconds;* almost all phonetics are supplied with an etymological explanation, which are helpful for better understanding of the historical background of phonetics and characters. Moreover, they are very effective in helping with remembering characters and distinguishing them from others that look similar;* a 30-page introduction is included, in which the method used for looking up characters is explained step by step, and illustrated with many examples. It also explains how to distinguish radicals, and explains the different kinds of radicals. Moreover, the introduction contains a brief overview of the historical development of Chinese characters in general.The Simplified Chinese Character Dictionary is based on the Chinese Character Dictionary (CCD). It differs from the latter in that it only contains simplified character entries. If a character has a different traditional version, then that is only given in brackets behind its simplified counterpart. In contrast, the CCD contains both simplified and traditional character entries, which can be searched for independently. Another difference is that the example words and phrases in the Simplified CCD are entirely in simplified Chinese, while in the CCD these are primarily in traditional Chinese.The Simplified Chinese Character Dictionary is primarily for students of Chinese in the beginning years of their study, who want to focus on learning simplified characters as quickly as possible. In contrast, the CCD can be used by people who use traditional and/or simplified script.
Download or read book What Character is That written by Gam Go and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An easy guide on how to find the Name of the radical of the character, to find out which group of characters the character belongs to.
Download or read book Easy Lookup Dictionary of Ten Thousand Mandarin Characters written by Ian Low and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Mandarin (Putonghua) character to English dictionary provides easy lookup of the most common 12,000 simplified and traditional Chinese characters. It also includes an English to Chinese dictionary that contains in excess of 20,000 entries.The easy lookup of Chinese characters is achieved using a new easy lookup method containing a 90 radicals index devised by the author. This new method is known as the 90 combined simplified-traditional radicals.The benefit of this new radicals index is that:1) Characters are listed under radicals that occurstrictly at the start of each character. 2) Simplified and Traditional characters are listed inthe same radicals index.3) The order of the 90 radicals and the characters in this new index conform to normal stroke writing order.
Download or read book A Short Dictionary of Simplified Chinese Characters written by Everett Williams Jameson and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 2500 Mandarin Chinese Dictionary Characters A Z written by Sk Mishra and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-06-10 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are thousands of Chinese characters that need to be learned in order to efficiently master the language. The volume aims at proving sets of related characters that share related pictograph and pinyin (for example, the characters 方邡坊芳枋钫防妨肪纺昉舫放鲂仿访彷房 all share a similar Romanization tag: fang). In particular, this book includes-A.2500 Mandarin Chinese characters in the tabular forms; B.Pinyin and associated meaning of the characters;C.54 chapters; 52 chapter names in A-Z order;D.Character sets that look similar and have related pinyin (i.e. 吨盹囤沌砘钝顿炖);E.List of Chinese names, surnames to illustrate the example usage of the characters;F.List of Chinese provinces with their one-character (short) names.Overall, the volume provides 2500 simplified characters in a single volume to learn the Mandarin Chinese reading fast.
Download or read book Easy Lookup Dictionary of Ten Thousand Cantonese Characters written by Ian Low and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Cantonese character to English dictionary provides easy lookup of the most common 12,000 simplified and traditional Chinese characters. It also includes an English to Chinese dictionary that contains in excess of 20,000 entries.The easy lookup of Chinese characters is achieved using a new easy lookup method containing a 90 radicals index devised by the author. This new method is known as the 90 combined simplified-traditional radicals.The benefit of this new radicals index is that:1) Characters are listed under radicals that occurstrictly at the start of each character. 2) Simplified and Traditional characters are listed inthe same radicals index.3) The order of the 90 radicals and the characters in this new index conform to normal stroke writing order.
Download or read book Chinese Character Dictionary written by Adrian Van Amstel and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-18 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you often have difficulty finding a particular character in a standard Chinese dictionary? Do you often fail to remember characters, though you have seen and looked them up several times? Don't you think one of the reasons could be that characters that look similar to others are not grouped together? And don't you think that the etymological background of characters (their historical development) could and should be explained better in order to understand the reason for all those dots and strokes? If your answer to these questions is 'yes', then help could be on its way within seconds. The Chinese Character Dictionary contains several new features that make looking up, learning and remembering Chinese characters more effective and more fun:* characters are arranged by the phonetic part that in most characters is relatively easy to distinguish. By grouping characters that have the same phonetic into series, it is now possible to study and compare characters that look almost similar;* any character can be found by stripping it first of its radicals, and then splitting the remaining phonetic into components. Phonetic and character can then be found under one of these components;* about 7,450 traditional and 1,450 simplified character shapes can be found using the same 3-step method. Examples are given of their usage in daily or literary Chinese, and many pinyin transliterations are given;* counting strokes is not necessary, and most characters can be found within seconds;* etymological explanations are included, which can help people to understand the historical background of phonetics and characters, moreover, they are very effective with helping to remember them and distinguishing them from others that look similar;* a 30-page introduction is included, in which the method used for looking up characters is explained step by step, and with many examples. It also explains how to distinguish radicals, besides explaining different kinds of radicals. Moreover, the introduction contains a brief overview of the historical development of Chinese characters in general.The Chinese Character Dictionary is meant for people who use traditional and/or simplified texts; no matter whether the character you are looking for is a simplified or traditional one, both can be found just as conveniently with the same method. The Chinese Character Dictionary can also be used by people who do not plan to study Chinese on a regular basis, but are interested in learning about Chinese characters, their history, and ancient Chinese culture. For example, the etymological description of the character for "wife" will inform you that it is composed of two pictographs, one for that of a woman, and the other depicting a hand holding a broom. These and other etymological descriptions are very insightful for understanding ancient Chinese culture.For students of Chinese who are in the beginning years of their study and are using simplified characters, an alternative version of the CCD is available. The Simplified Chinese Character Dictionary is based on the Chinese Character Dictionary, but differs from the latter in that it only contains simplified character entries. Another difference is that the example words and phrases in the simplified CCD are entirely in simplified Chinese, while in the CCD these are primarily in traditional Chinese.
Download or read book Stroke Order Dictionary for Simplified Chinese Characters written by Melanie Schmidt and published by . This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Color Edition) The ideal illustrated dictionary with stroke orders for over 3400 Chinese simplified characters, for all Chinese learners from beginners to advanced levels- an optimal reference book for the preparation of HSK examinations (level I-V). In addition to stroke orders, you will find the most important up-to-date meanings of characters as well as sample expressions using these characters. Illustrations for the major components of each character (radicals) greatly facilitate the building of mnemonics or memory tricks to make memorizing the whole character easier. Calligraphic sequences point out the pictorial evolution of character components helping you to understand the fascinating and also fun stories behind the characters. Knowing more about the story of a character makes memorizing them easier and interesting! An overview for beginners over the most important rules for how to write a Chinese character makes it possible for everyone to easily access the fascinating world of Chinese characters. An additional exercise book to practice the stroke order for over 2000 Chinese characters is available under the title "The Exercise Book for Chinese simplified characters - Stroke orders of 2000 Chinese characters." Find further opportunities for stroke order practice on www.mandarinstrokes.com!
Download or read book Pocket Dictionary of Ten Thousand Mandarin Characters written by Ian Low and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dictionary of Chinese characters with Mandarin Pinyin Putonghua pronunciation, contains the most common 12,000 simplified and traditional characters, combined into a new, simple and easy-to-use 90 radicals index dictionary index and listing devised by the author. The benefit of this new radicals index is that:1) Characters are listed under radicals that occur strictly at the start of each character. 2) Simplified and Traditional characters are listed in the same radicals index.3) This new index indicates the correct normal writing order of parts within a character.
Download or read book Hacking Chinese written by Olle Linge and published by . This book was released on 2016-03-26 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning Chinese can be frustrating and difficult, partly because it's very different from European languages. Following a teacher, textbook or language course is not enough. They show you the characters, words and grammar you need to become proficient in Chinese, but they don't teach you how to learn them! Regardless of what program you're in (if any), you need to take responsibility for your own learning. If you don't, you will miss many important things that aren't included in the course you're taking. If you study on your own, you need to be even more aware of what you need to do, what you're doing at the moment and the difference between them. Here are some of the questions I have asked and have since been asked many times by students: How do I learn characters efficiently? How do I get the most out of my course or teacher? Which are the best learning tools and resources? How can I become fluent in Mandarin? How can I improve my pronunciation? How do I learn successfully on my own? How can I motivate myself to study more? How can I fit learning Chinese into a busy schedule? The answers I've found to these questions and many others form the core of this book. It took eight years of learning, researching, teaching and writing to figure these things out. Not everybody has the time to do that! I can't go back in time and help myself learn in a better way, but I can help you! This book is meant for normal students and independent language learners alike. While it covers all major areas of learning, you won't learn Chinese just by reading this book. It's like when someone on TV teaches you how to cook: you won't get to eat the delicious dish just by watching the program; you have to do the cooking yourself. That's true for this book as well. When you apply what you learn, it will boost your learning, making every hour you spend count for more, but you still have to do the learning yourself. This is what a few readers have said about the book: "The book had me nodding at a heap of things I'd learnt the hard way, wishing I knew them when I started, as well as highlighting areas that I'm currently missing in my study." - Geoff van der Meer, VP engineering "This publication is like a bible for anyone serious about Chinese proficiency. It's easy for anyone to read and written with scientific precision." - Zachary Danz, foreign teacher, children's theatre artist About me I started learning Chinese when I was 23 (that's more than eight years ago now) and have since studied in many different situations, including serious immersion programs abroad, high-intensity programs in Sweden, online courses, as well as on the side while working or studying other things. I have also successfully used my Chinese in a graduate program for teaching Chinese as a second language, taught entirely in Chinese mostly for native speakers (the Graduate Institute for Teaching Chinese as a Second Language at National Taiwan Normal University). All these parts have contributed to my website, Hacking Chinese, where I write regularly about how to learn Mandarin.
