Chinese Characters: A Genealogy And Dictionary
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Chinese Characters: A Genealogy And Dictionary

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This dictionary is designed to help students understand, appreciate and remember Chinese characters. It has the following features: -Every character entry includes a brief traditional Chinese etymology. -Genealogical charts highlight the connections between characters, showing the creation of more than 4000 characters from less than 200 simple pictographs and ideographs. -...more
Paperback, 550 pages
Published September 1st 1999 by Zhongwen.Com (first published August 1st 1998)
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Femmy
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In 2003-2004 my joining the tjersil mailing list rekindled my love for wuxia novels and television series, and through the serial-silat mailing list, I was lucky enough to obtain the soundtracks to my favorite series from the 80s. Then I scrambled to find a Chinese-English dictionary on the net so that I can translate the lyrics. I was just dying to know what they mean.

In my search, I stumbled into www.zhongwen.com and immediately fell in love with the organization of their dictionar...more
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In this one the Chinese characters are actually big enough to see without too much trouble!
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