The First 100 Chinese Characters: Simplified Character Edition: The Quick and Easy Method to Learn the 100 Most Basic Chinese Characters

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The major struggle facing all beginning Chinese language students is to learn to recognize, read and write hundreds of Chinese characters. This book adopt a structural approach that helps students overcome this initial difficulty and quickly master the basic Chinese characters fundamental to this language. Intended for beginning students, The First 100 Chinese Characters: Simplified Character Edition contains carefully selected and sequenced characters for rapid and effective learning. Each Chinese character is ...

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Overview

The major struggle facing all beginning Chinese language students is to learn to recognize, read and write hundreds of Chinese characters. This book adopt a structural approach that helps students overcome this initial difficulty and quickly master the basic Chinese characters fundamental to this language. Intended for beginning students, The First 100 Chinese Characters: Simplified Character Edition contains carefully selected and sequenced characters for rapid and effective learning. Each Chinese character is shown separately on a single page, along with its English definitions, hanyu pinyin romanization, alternate form, a stroke-order guide and ample writing space.

Two indexes—alphabetical by the English meanings and by pinyin romanization—are provided at the back of each book for quick and easy reference, along with extra sheets of blank boxes for writing practice.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780804838306
  • Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
  • Publication date: 1/28/2007
  • Series: Tuttle Language Library
  • Edition description: Original
  • Pages: 128
  • Sales rank: 300,574
  • Product dimensions: 8.50 (w) x 11.00 (h) x 0.40 (d)

Meet the Author

Alison Matthews is a statistician who has worked in the oil, aviation, tourism, medical and software industries.
Laurence Matthews is the author of the Kanji Fast Finder and Chinese Character Fast Finder books.
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Table of Contents


Introduction     4
Yi     10
Er     11
San     12
Si     13
Wu     14
Liu     15
Qi     16
Ba     17
Jiu     18
Shi     19
Ni     20
Nin     21
Hao/hao     22
Qing     23
Wen     24
Gui     25
Xing     26
Ta     27
Ta     28
Jiao     29
Shen/shi     30
Me     31
Ming     32
Zi     33
Wo     34
Shi     35
Da     36
Xue     37
Sheng     38
Zhong     39
Ying     40
Wen     41
Ke     42
Lao     43
Shi     44
Tong     45
Xiao     46
Xiao     47
Peng     48
You     49
Men     50
Ne     51
Xie     52
Zai     53
Jian     54
Mei     55
Guo     56
Ren     57
Ma     58
Ye     59
Bu     60
Shei/shui     61
De     62
Jia     63
Ba     64
He     65
Ma     66
Ge     67
Jie     68
Di     69
Mei     70
Zhu     71
Zai     72
Zhe     73
Nu     74
Er/r     75
Na/nei     76
Nan     77
Hai     78
Zi/zi     79
Dou/du     80
Mei     81
You     82
Zuo     83
Shi     84
Liang     85
Ge     86
Duo     87
Shao/shao     88
Shi     89
Jian     90
Jin     91
Tian     92
Ji     93
Hao     94
Ming     95
Nian      96
Yue     97
Ri     98
Xing     99
Qi     100
Zao     101
Shang     102
Xia     103
Wu     104
Chi     105
Wan     106
Fan     107
Le/liao     108
Na/nei     109
Hanyu Pinyin Index     110
Radical Index     116
English-Chinese Index     118
List of Radicals     128
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