Passport to Chinese: 100 Most Commonly Used Chinese Characters

By Lin Shan

This book introduces 100 of the most commonly used Chinese characters. Readers learn the basics of Chinese including: the strokes of the character, radicals, hanyu pinyin, and pronunciation. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0893468622
• ISBN13: 9780893468620
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Heian Intl Pub Co
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.5" x 0.8" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

I like the concept of the book

This book is good if you are learning simplified chinese. I study traditional, so it is less useful. I like that they combine the characters and give their meaning, and all of the drills. I just wish they had a series of these kinds of books to get more advanced. After you finish this book what are you left with. Another few thousand characters.

Better than most

I truly found the book useful and entertaining with its various subjects. The first half of the book is mainly reference material that you will constantly use throughout the rest of the book. After a while it becomes second nature which means the book has done its job.You will build upon simple phrases and words to actual dialog and passages. I found this section to be great practice! I have no idea why this book is so unpopular when its so useful.