Penguin Books Australia

This pack will appeal to both casual and serious students of the Chinese language.

Revised edition includes four additional lessons for the learner to revise and build upon all that s/he has learnt in the previous 3 weeks.  

The radicals in a Chinese character serve to categorize words according to their meaning and act as common denominators which the mind commits to memory when sizing up the character. There are altogether 214 radicals in the Chinese language and every Chinese character is composed of one or more radicals. In this book, the more fundamental radicals are analysed and explained with carefully chosen examples...

A Chinese script of one form or another has been in existence for over 5,000 years. Although it has continued to developed, the basic form of the writing was already established by 200 A. D. This makes it not only a very interesting aspect of Chinese life, but also one of mankind's greatest early achievements.

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