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Book HSK 5 Classified Chinese Vocabulary Book   A Quick    LIFE SAVING    Reference to Success Version 2019  2500 Words

Download or read book HSK 5 Classified Chinese Vocabulary Book A Quick LIFE SAVING Reference to Success Version 2019 2500 Words written by DAVID YAO and published by Legoo Mandarin. This book was released on 2020-06-03 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vocabulary Books Version 2019 is Out now! With the Best English Translation for better understanding. It takes our years' painful effort to edit. Please respect our copy right! A4 size book with PinYin and the best English translation, classified into Noun, Verb, Adjective, Pronouns etc. 11 categories. Many students call it "LIFE SAVING" for their exam. The book give a quick revision for your coming exam! Grab it!

Book HSK 5 Classified Chinese Vocabulary Book

Download or read book HSK 5 Classified Chinese Vocabulary Book written by David Yao and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-11 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the vocabulary list for New HSK 5. There are total 2500 vocabularies with the possible Best English Translation for your better understanding with our many years' experience in HSK and GCSE teaching. We also give HSK level classifications which will give you a cross reference for your Chinese standard. The vocabularies are classified into following 12 categories then ranked according HSK levels.Many students call it "LIFE SAVING" for their exam. The book give a quick revision for your coming exam! Grab it! Thanks for your support for us creating better contents for you! It takes our years' painful effort to edit and please respect our copy rights.How to use this book effectively?Tips:1. Tally the words you DON'T know in front. This will shorten your Vocabulary. If you tally a work 4 times. This means this word bullies you FOUR times. Then? Remember or Kill it!2 Cambridge IGCSE Chinese (CIE 0523, 0547) to HSK 5. The HSK Classifications will give you cross reference. If your level are IB HL (HSK 6), all HSK 6 words you need to know the meaning and reading, HSK 5 and lower words you should know how to write out. This will help you to highlight the priorities of your study. That's why many students call it "LIFE SAVING" for their exam. The new HSK (Chinese Proficiency Test) Introduction: The new HSK (Chinese Proficiency Test) is an international standardized exam that tests and rates Chinese language proficiency. It assesses non-native Chinese speakers' abilities in using the Chinese language in their daily, academic and professional lives. HSK consists of six levels, namely the HSK (level I), HSK (level II), HSK (level III), HSK (level IV), HSK (level V), and HSK (level VI).II. Test Levels New HSK Vocabulary HSK (Level I) 150HSK (Level II) 300HSK (Level III) 600 HSK (Level IV) 1200 HSK (Level V) 2500HSK (Level VI) Over 5,000

Book HSK 6 Classified Chinese Vocabulary Book Version 2019  5000 Words

Download or read book HSK 6 Classified Chinese Vocabulary Book Version 2019 5000 Words written by DAVID YAO and published by Legoo Mandarin. This book was released on 2020-06-03 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HSK 6 Classified Chinese Vocabulary Book - A Quick “LIFE SAVING” Reference to Success Version 2020, (2500 New words / 5000) Words NEW PDF BOOK! New launching BEST price @ http://edeo.biz/1231 Preface This is the vocabulary list for New HSK 6. There are total 5000 vocabularies (2500 New words / 5000) with the possible Best English Translation for your better understanding with our many years' experience in HSK and GCSE teaching. We also give HSK level classifications which will give you a cross reference for your Chinese standard. The vocabularies are classified into following 12 categories then ranked according HSK levels. 1 名词 míngcí Noun 2 动词 dòngcí Verb 3 形容词 xíngróngcí Adjective 4 代词 dàicí Pronouns 5 数词 shù cí Numeral 6 量词 liàngcí Classifier; Measure Word (MW) 7 副词 fùcí Adverb 8 连词 liáncí Conjunction 9 介词 jiècí Preposition 10 助词 zhùcí Particle 11 叹词 tàn cí Interjection 12 象声词 xiàngshēngcí onomatopoeia Many students call it "LIFE SAVING" for their exam. The book give a quick revision for your coming exam! Grab it! Thanks for your support for us creating better contents for you! For Amazon Hardcopy or paperback books at best price with reduced postage, or FREE Amazon Kindle readings, please visit: David Yao Amazon Kindle Author Central page: http://bit.ly/david-amazon-kdp (USA)

Book Classified Situational Chinese Vocabulary Camping Version 2020  3rd Edition

Download or read book Classified Situational Chinese Vocabulary Camping Version 2020 3rd Edition written by DAVID YAO and published by Legoo Mandarin. This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classification of the level of difficulty: we classify the vocabulary into 6 levels according HSK (Chinese Proficiency Test) levels. This is done by referencing to our frequency of Chinese Characters' usage, HSK vocabulary and our experience. This small improvement has significant implications. Situational classification: We classified the most common vocabulary into 50 categories according to situational daily usage. This classification will enable the beginner to improve their vocabulary in the short time according the situational need. It will also help a lot for student to do revision. Some students call them as “LIFESAVING" book before their examinations. In order to illustrate how to some hard vocabularies, we also give the situational sentences and conversations to improve student understanding. Camping: we group the same topic vocabulary together, like camping which allow you to focus on improving specific topic in short time. This is very helpful when you are writing an article or preparing a speaking, like IGCSE's role play. This idea is similar to my advisor 张田若 “集中识字,分类习作,大量阅读” thought. The differences are I am focusing on vocabulary (phrase) instead of Characters, classified by HSK level and expanded by topics, targeting at speaking correct Chinese sentence instead of write the good article, which is the challenging task for non-mandarin speaker. The significance of classify the vocabulary into 6 levels according HSK. For us as editors and teacher to prepare the articles, we can give the right article to right students, not too hard or too easy by referring to the levels. We can improve their study step by step. We set the reachable bar, not too low or high, which is encouraging rather discouraging. For students, the classification of level of difficulty will enable the learner to differentiate the phrases you must know how to write and the phrases that you need to read only. You can evaluate your progress by referring to the levels. It is benchmarking. Furthermore, we encourage students to expand vocabulary to higher level and consolidate the vocabulary in the lower level. For example, you are student in final stage preparing IGCSE examination which equivalent to HSK 4. You should know the meaning of most vocabulary HSK 1 to HSK 4. If you see HSK 5 or even HSK 6 vocabulary, you are motivated to reach higher, who knows these harder vocabulary will not appear in your reading papers ( actually it happened many time the vocabulary appeared in the past papers are out of range). If you see HSK 1 to HSK 3 vocabulary, you are required to write them out in additional know how to read and the meaning. This is the answer to annoying question raised by many students “Should I know how to write them?” The 6 levels classification provide a grid to evaluate students’ progress by teacher or self-assessment by students. Such classification will enable students go faster as too much memorize of writing of Chinese characters will slow down their progress. It takes us six month to do this small but significant modification, a painful task for us but for goodness of students. By providing the best English translation available on the world (not bragging, no jokes, the best, seeing is believing), HSK classification reference and past papers sentences illustration, we created more than just a dictionary, a vocabulary list or a reference book, Edeo (Educational Video) courses. Our practical and unique approach integrated with our IT system seamlessly will bring you the learning experience you may never know! Grab our courses and success in your examinations! David YAO, Founder of https://edeo.biz/shop & www.legoomandarin.com July 28, 2016 (Revised on January 2019, November 14, 2020)

Book Fundamental Chinese Vocabulary  1300 Words

Download or read book Fundamental Chinese Vocabulary 1300 Words written by DAVID YAO and published by Legoo Mandarin. This book was released on with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By referring HSK (version 2009 and the latest version 2021), we edited a series of Chinese Vocabulary for those who are studying Chinese or preparing international examinations, such as IB, SAT, AP, IGCSE, GCSE Chinese. This series includes: 1. Fundamental Chinese Vocabulary (suitable for GCSE, IGCSE level, IB ab initio,1300 Phrases) 2. Intermediate Chinese Vocabulary (suitable for AS GCSE, Cambridge GCSE 0523 (Second Language, IB Chinese B SL, 3270 Phrases) 3. Advance Chinese Vocabulary (suitable for A Level GCSE, Cambridge GCSE 0509 (First Language, IB Chinese B HL, SAT 3335 Phrases) 4. Expert Chinese Vocabulary (suitable for A Level GCSE, IB Chinese A SL HL, AP , 6000 Phrases, others who seek College Education in Chinese) Combining our 26 years’ expertise in Teaching and editing our own materials, here is the “LIFE SAVING” book called by many students for their exams. Grab it! Thanks for your support for us creating better contents for you!

Book Expert Chinese Vocabulary  6236 Words  V2021

Download or read book Expert Chinese Vocabulary 6236 Words V2021 written by DAVID YAO and published by Legoo Mandarin. This book was released on with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By referring HSK (version 2009 and the latest version 2021), we edited a series of Chinese Vocabulary for those who are studying Chinese or preparing international examinations, such asIB B HL, SAT IGCSE 0509, AP, GCSE A1 A2 Exam. This series includes: 1. Fundamental Chinese Vocabulary (suitable for GCSE, IGCSE level, IB ab initio,1300 Phrases) 2. Intermediate Chinese Vocabulary (suitable for AS GCSE, Cambridge GCSE 0523 (Second Language, IB Chinese B SL, 3271 Phrases) 3. Advance Chinese Vocabulary (suitable for A Level GCSE, Cambridge GCSE 0509 (First Language, IB Chinese B HL, SAT 3335 Phrases) 4. Expert Chinese Vocabulary (suitable for A Level GCSE, IB Chinese A SL HL, AP , 6236 Phrases, others who seek College Education in Chinese) Combining our 26 years’ expertise in Teaching and editing our own materials, here is the “LIFE SAVING” book called by many students for their exams. Grab it! Thanks for your support for us creating better contents for you!

Book Advance Chinese Vocabulary  3335 Words  V2021

Download or read book Advance Chinese Vocabulary 3335 Words V2021 written by DAVID YAO and published by Legoo Mandarin. This book was released on with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By referring HSK (version 2009 and the latest version 2021), we edited a series of Chinese Vocabulary for those who are studying Chinese or preparing international examinations, such as IB, SAT, AP, IGCSE, GCSE Chinese. This series includes: 1. Fundamental Chinese Vocabulary (suitable for GCSE, IGCSE level, IB ab initio,1300 Phrases) 2. Intermediate Chinese Vocabulary (suitable for AS GCSE, Cambridge GCSE 0523 (Second Language, IB Chinese B SL, 3271 Phrases) 3. Advance Chinese Vocabulary (suitable for A Level GCSE, Cambridge GCSE 0509 (First Language, IB Chinese B HL, SAT 3335 Phrases) 4. Expert Chinese Vocabulary (suitable for A Level GCSE, IB Chinese A SL HL, AP , 6236 Phrases, others who seek College Education in Chinese) Combining our 26 years’ expertise in Teaching and editing our own materials, here is the “LIFE SAVING” book called by many students for their exams. Grab it! Thanks for your support for us creating better contents for you!

Book Advance Chinese Vocabulary  3335 Words  V2021

Download or read book Advance Chinese Vocabulary 3335 Words V2021 written by David Yao and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By referring HSK (version 2009 and the latest version 2021), we edited a series of Chinese Vocabulary for those who are studying Chinese or preparing international examinations, such as IB, SAT, AP, IGCSE, GCSE Chinese. This series includes: 1. Fundamental Chinese Vocabulary (suitable for GCSE, IGCSE level, IB ab initio,1300 Phrases) 2. Intermediate Chinese Vocabulary (suitable for AS GCSE, Cambridge GCSE 0523 (Second Language, IB Chinese B SL, 3271 Phrases) 3. Advance Chinese Vocabulary (suitable for A Level GCSE, Cambridge GCSE 0509 (First Language, IB Chinese B HL, SAT 3335 Phrases) 4. Expert Chinese Vocabulary (suitable for A Level GCSE, IB Chinese A SL HL, AP, 6236 Phrases, others who seek College Education in Chinese) Combining our 26 years' expertise in Teaching and editing our own materials, here is the "LIFE SAVING" book called by many students for their exams. Grab it! Thanks for your support for us creating better contents for you!

Book Expert Chinese Vocabulary V2021  6236 Words

Download or read book Expert Chinese Vocabulary V2021 6236 Words written by David Yao and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-08-11 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By referring HSK (version 2009 and the latest version 2021), we edited a series of Chinese Vocabulary for those who are studying Chinese or preparing international examinations, such asIB B HL, SAT IGCSE 0509, AP, GCSE A1 A2 Exam. This series includes: 1. Fundamental Chinese Vocabulary (suitable for GCSE, IGCSE level, IB ab initio,1300 Phrases) 2. Intermediate Chinese Vocabulary (suitable for AS GCSE, Cambridge GCSE 0523 (Second Language, IB Chinese B SL, 3271 Phrases) 3. Advance Chinese Vocabulary (suitable for A Level GCSE, Cambridge GCSE 0509 (First Language, IB Chinese B HL, SAT 3335 Phrases) 4. Expert Chinese Vocabulary (suitable for A Level GCSE, IB Chinese A SL HL, AP, 6236 Phrases, others who seek College Education in Chinese) Combining our 26 years' expertise in Teaching and editing our own materials, here is the "LIFE SAVING" book called by many students for their exams. Grab it! Thanks for your support for us creating better contents for you!

Book Theme based Chinese Vocabulary for Basic Level  3456 Words

Download or read book Theme based Chinese Vocabulary for Basic Level 3456 Words written by DAVID YAO and published by Legoo Mandarin. This book was released on with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theme-based learning is a way of teaching and learning, whereby many areas of the curriculum are connected together and integrated within a theme. By referring IGCSE 0547, Edexcel IGCSE/GCSE, AQA GCSE, IB ab Syllabus and HSK (Chinese Proficiency Test) Version 2021 New Standards for International Chinese Language Education, we added more vocabulary and give the HSK classification, both Version 2009 and the latest Version 2022. Within each topic, the vocabulary are arranged by HSK V2021 levels. This will give teachers a guidance for difficulty level and allow students to set priority on the vocabulary they should know to read, write or both. It will also help a lot for student to do revision. Some students call them as “LIFESAVING" book before their examinations. Combining our 27 years’ experience in Teaching and editing our own materials, here is the “LIFE SAVING” book called by many students for their exams. Grab this unique book!

Book Classified Situational Chinese Vocabulary Camping for GCSE IGCSE IB AP SAT HSK

Download or read book Classified Situational Chinese Vocabulary Camping for GCSE IGCSE IB AP SAT HSK written by David Yao and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classified Situational Chinese Vocabulary Camping Version 2020 (3rd Edition) -Topic Oriented Classified Chinese Vocabulary for GCSE IGCSE IB AP SAT HSK 集中、分类、分级、情境词汇速成 350 Pages We need to highlight these phrases!The classification of the level of difficulty: we classify the vocabulary into 6 levels according HSK (Chinese Proficiency Test) levels. This is done by referencing to our frequency of Chinese Characters' usage, HSK vocabulary and our experience. This small improvement has significant implications. Situational classification: We classified the most common vocabulary into 50 categories according to situational daily usage. This classification will enable the beginner to improve their vocabulary in the short time according the situational need. It will also help a lot for student to do revision. Some students call them as "LIFESAVING" book before their examinations. In order to illustrate how to some hard vocabularies, we also give the situational sentences and conversations to improve student understanding.Camping: we group the same topic vocabulary together, like camping which allow you to focus on improving specific topic in short time. This is very helpful when you are writing an article or preparing a speaking, like IGCSE's role play. This idea is similar to my advisor 张田若 "集中识字,分类习作,大量阅读" thought. The differences are I am focusing on vocabulary (phrase) instead of Characters, classified by HSK level and expanded by topics, targeting at speaking correct Chinese sentence instead of write the good article, which is the challenging task for non-mandarin speaker.The significance of classify the vocabulary into 6 levels according HSK.For us as editors and teacher to prepare the articles, we can give the right article to right students, not too hard or too easy by referring to the levels. We can improve their study step by step. We set the reachable bar, not too low or high, which is encouraging rather discouraging.For students, the classification of level of difficulty will enable the learner to differentiate the phrases you must know how to write and the phrases that you need to read only. You can evaluate your progress by referring to the levels. It is benchmarking. Furthermore, we encourage students to expand vocabulary to higher level and consolidate the vocabulary in the lower level. For example, you are student in final stage preparing IGCSE examination which equivalent to HSK 4. You should know the meaning of most vocabulary HSK 1 to HSK 4. If you see HSK 5 or even HSK 6 vocabulary, you are motivated to reach higher, who knows these harder vocabulary will not appear in your reading papers ( actually it happened many time the vocabulary appeared in the past papers are out of range). If you see HSK 1 to HSK 3 vocabulary, you are required to write them out in additional know how to read and the meaning. This is the answer to annoying question raised by many students "Should I know how to write them?" The 6 levels classification provide a grid to evaluate students' progress by teacher or self-assessment by students. Such classification will enable students go faster as too much memorize of writing of Chinese characters will slow down their progress. It takes us six month to do this small but significant modification, a painful task for us but for goodness of students.By providing the best English translation available on the world (not bragging, no jokes, the best, seeing is believing), HSK classification reference and past papers sentences illustration, we created more than just a dictionary, a vocabulary list or a reference book, Edeo (Educational Video) courses. Our practical and unique approach integrated with our IT system seamlessly will bring you the learning experience you may never know! Grab our courses and success in your examinations! David YAO, July 28, 2016 (Revised on January 2019, November 14, 2020)

Book A Classified English Chinese Vocabulary

Download or read book A Classified English Chinese Vocabulary written by Chen Gear and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-10-31 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Big Breasts and Wide Hips

Download or read book Big Breasts and Wide Hips written by Mo Yan and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2012-01-04 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jintong, his mother, and his eight sisters struggle to survive through the major crises of twentieth century China, which include civil war, invasion by the Japanese, the cultural revolution, and communist rule in the new China.

Book Remembering Simplified Hanzi 1

Download or read book Remembering Simplified Hanzi 1 written by James W. Heisig and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2008-10-31 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At long last the approach that has helped thousands of learners memorize Japanese kanji has been adapted to help students with Chinese characters. Book 1 of Remembering Simplified Hanzi covers the writing and meaning of the 1,000 most commonly used characters in the simplified Chinese writing system, plus another 500 that are best learned at an early stage. (Book 2 adds another 1,500 characters for a total of 3,000.) Of critical importance to the approach found in these pages is the systematic arranging of characters in an order best suited to memorization. In the Chinese writing system, strokes and simple components are nested within relatively simple characters, which can, in turn, serve as parts of more complicated characters and so on. Taking advantage of this allows a logical ordering, making it possible for students to approach most new characters with prior knowledge that can greatly facilitate the learning process. Guidance and detailed instructions are provided along the way. Students are taught to employ "imaginative memory" to associate each character’s component parts, or "primitive elements," with one another and with a key word that has been carefully selected to represent an important meaning of the character. This is accomplished through the creation of a "story" that engagingly ties the primitive elements and key word together. In this way, the collections of dots, strokes, and components that make up the characters are associated in memorable fashion, dramatically shortening the time required for learning and helping to prevent characters from slipping out of memory.

Book Remembering the Kanji 2

Download or read book Remembering the Kanji 2 written by James W. Heisig and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the first volume of Remembering the Kanji, the present work provides students with helpful tools for learning the pronunciation of the kanji. Behind the notorious inconsistencies in the way the Japanese language has come to pronounce the characters it received from China lie several coherent patterns. Identifying these patterns and arranging them in logical order can reduce dramatically the amount of time spent in the brute memorization of sounds unrelated to written forms. Many of the “primitive elements,” or building blocks, used in the drawing of the characters also serve to indicate the “Chinese reading” that particular kanji use, chiefly in compound terms. By learning one of the kanji that uses such a “signal primitive,” one can learn the entire group at the same time. In this way, Remembering the Kanji 2 lays out the varieties of phonetic pattern and offers helpful hints for learning readings, that might otherwise appear completely random, in an efficient and rational way. Individual frames cross-reference the kanji to alternate readings and to the frame in volume 1 in which the meaning and writing of the kanji was first introduced. A parallel system of pronouncing the kanji, their “Japanese readings,” uses native Japanese words assigned to particular Chinese characters. Although these are more easily learned because of the association of the meaning to a single word, the author creates a kind of phonetic alphabet of single syllable words, each connected to a simple Japanese word, and shows how they can be combined to help memorize particularly troublesome vocabulary. The 4th edition has been updated to include the 196 new kanji approved by the government in 2010 as “general-use” kanji.

Book Tuttle Learning Chinese Characters

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.

Book Reading and Writing Chinese

Download or read book Reading and Writing Chinese written by William McNaughton and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a complete and easy–to–use guide for reading and writing Chinese characters. Learning written Chinese is an essential part of mastering the Chinese language. Used as a standard by students and teachers learning to read Chinese and write Chinese for more than three decades, the bestselling Reading & Writing Chinese has been thoroughly revised and updated. Reading & Writing Chinese places at your fingertips the essential 1,725 Chinese characters' current definitions, derivations, pronunciations, and examples of correct usage by utilizing 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). The student's ability to read and write Chinese are reinforced throughout the text. Key features of this newly-expanded edition include: The 1,725 most frequently used characters in both Simplified and Traditional forms. All 2,633 characters and 5,000+ compounds required for the HSK Exam. Standard Hanyu Pinyin romanizations. More mnemonic phrases and etymologies to help you remember the characters. An extensive introduction, alphabetical index, and index according to stroke count and stroke order. Completely updated/expanded English definitions. Convenient quick-reference tables of radicals. Updated and revised compounds, plus 25% more vocabulary now offered. Codes to assist those who are preparing for the AP exam or the HSK exam.