The Most Common Chinese Radicals (Writing course)(Cn-Eng ed.)

This book introduces to foreign students the basics of how to write and learn the Chinese characters in the most efficient way.The format of the lessons is as follows:1.Starting from the most basic strokes.The book introduces the eight basic types of strokes,with the variant forms,stroke names and rules for forming them.2.Learning the characters through the radicals.Introduced in this book are the 108 most commonly used radicals,sequenced from the simple to the more complicated according to the number of their strokes.Each radical is accompanied by its name,meaning,function,origin,way of writing and number of strokes.3.Focusing on the combination of components.Under each radical there are several compound characters containing it.Each compound character is given its pronunciation and meaning.Emphasis is placed on the logical relationship between its components,its meaning and the structural type of its components.