How to Identify Chinese Characters

By Nancy N. Seymour

With the spread of written information, non-Chinese-speaking Westerners have increasing need to identify Chinese characters, but they encounter great difficulty when attempting to look them up in a dictionary, because modern Chinese dictionaries and reference materials are all based on the official pinyin, an alphabetic romanization of the Chinese language. This book provides an easy method_by modified stroke count_by which the most frequently used Chinese characters can be identified and transcribed into pinyin. Access to dictionaries and meanings easily follows.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810822784
• ISBN13: 9780810822788
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Length: 467 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.4"