Chinese Character Writing For Dummies
β Dr. Wendy Abraham, Jing Li
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2019
π John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
π Chinese, English
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β¦ Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Introduction
About This Book
Foolish Assumptions
Icons Used in This Book
Where to Go from Here
Chapter 1 Wrapping Your Mind around the Chinese Writing System
Appreciating the Complexities of Written Chinese
How the Written Word Unifies China
What? No Alphabet?
Which Way Did They Go? The Direction of Characters
Chinese Language Reform
Traditional versus Simplified Characters
Why Learn to Write Chinese?
Strategies for Learning to Write Chinese Characters
Set goals
Write, review, rinse, repeat
Cultivate your inner character whisperer
Practice creative visualization
Chapter 2 Understanding the Structure of Chinese Characters
Simple versus Composite Characters
The Six Scripts
Pictographs
Simple ideographs
Compound ideographs
Phonetic compounds
Reciprocal characters
Phonetic loan characters
What a Radical Idea! The Incredible Radical
Why all the fuss about radicals?
How to use a Chinese dictionaryΒ . . . without an alphabet
Deciphering Strokes
Types of strokes
Stroke order
Chapter 3 Preparing to Write Beautifully
From Then to Now: A Brief History of Chinese Writing
Carving on bone
From etchings to brush and ink
Adding bronze carvings to the mix
Widespread use of brush and ink
Moveable type and word processing
The Evolution of Chinese Script
Oracle bone script
Bronze inscriptions
Seal script
Clerical script
Running script
Grass script
Regular script
The Four Treasures of Chinese Calligraphy
Writing brush
Ink
Rice paper
Ink stone
Tools and Techniques for the Modern-Day Calligrapher (or Writer)
Chapter 4 100 Chinese Characters
Appendix A The 214 Chinese Radicals
Appendix B Compound Words to Practice
Appendix C Sentences to Practice
Appendix D Blank Grids for ExtraΒ Practice
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