Chinese Character Writing For Dummies

✍ Scribed by Dr. Wendy Abraham, Jing Li

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: Chinese, English
• Leaves: 147
• Series: For Dummies
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page......Page 3
Copyright Page......Page 4
Table of Contents......Page 5
About This Book......Page 7
Where to Go from Here......Page 8
Appreciating the Complexities of Written Chinese......Page 9
How the Written Word Unifies China......Page 10
Which Way Did They Go? The Direction of Characters......Page 11
Chinese Language Reform......Page 12
Traditional versus Simplified Characters......Page 13
Strategies for Learning to Write Chinese Characters......Page 14
Write, review, rinse, repeat......Page 15
Practice creative visualization......Page 16
Simple versus Composite Characters......Page 17
The Six Scripts......Page 18
Pictographs......Page 19
Phonetic compounds......Page 20
What a Radical Idea! The Incredible Radical......Page 21
How to use a Chinese dictionary . . . without an alphabet......Page 22
Deciphering Strokes......Page 23
Types of strokes......Page 24
Stroke order......Page 25
Chapter 3 Preparing to Write Beautifully......Page 27
From etchings to brush and ink......Page 28
Moveable type and word processing......Page 29
Oracle bone script......Page 30
Seal script......Page 31
Grass script......Page 32
The Four Treasures of Chinese Calligraphy......Page 33
Writing brush......Page 34
Ink stone......Page 35
Tools and Techniques for the Modern-Day Calligrapher (or Writer)......Page 36
Chapter 4 100 Chinese Characters......Page 39
Appendix A The 214 Chinese Radicals......Page 89
Appendix B Compound Words to Practice......Page 97
Appendix C Sentences to Practice......Page 107
Appendix D Blank Grids for Extra Practice......Page 119
EULA......Page 147

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Китайский язык;Иероглифы;Письменность;Chinese language;ĉina lingvo