Chinese Character Fast Finder: Simplified Characters
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| Rating | : | 4.15 (690 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0804836345 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Laurence Matthews has worked as a university lecturer, a research manager , and as an airport consultant in Japan. In this work he uses his knowledge to bring order to the confusing world of kanji identification
. About the AuthorLaurence Matthews has worked as a university lecturer, a research manager , and as an airport consultant in Japan. In this work he uses his knowledge to bring order to the confusing world of kanji identification
Find elusive characters more easily in large character dictionaries. With this book you can: Find characters quickly, reliably and intuitively– from their visual appearance alone. As an optional feature you can make a double thumbnail index to speed things up even more. From the finder chart inside the front cover, you can turn to the correct page immediately, and finding the character on that page has also been made as simple as possible. In particular, looking them up in a typical Chinese dictionary can be a nightmare, as there is no 'alphabetical order.' Reading Chinese as well as writing Chinese requires referencing dozens of characters. The fast finder is designed primarily for serious Chinese language learners of modern simplified Chinese (Mandarin Chinese) and serves as a quick reference for experts, bu
Chinese Character Fast Finder Amazon Customer This is probably the best improvement (invention) in finding chinese language characters. Beats old traditional radicals system hands down. Makes finding characters a snap compared to a dictionary. Doesn't mean you won't need a good dictionary, but will save you a tonn of time and make your life a whole lot easier. Definitely a must have for anyone who studies Chinese or has to deal with chinese text often for whate. Chinese Character Fast Finder A really helpful book in quickly looking up Chinese Characters, however, the book only covers 3,200 characters and therefore cannot be the only dictionary the you may own. It works well together with other dictionaries, and is especially helpful in finding common words that do not have a clear radical. Remembering that the common less complex words in Chinese are often the most difficult to find, this is where this . "It really works!" according to James Lane. As this book is really meant to be an locator/index of Chinese characters, I thought it should be able to do just that. So, before purchasing it, I looked up one or two characters and found it only took a couple of seconds!This is far better than using the radical index of a dictionary if you don't know the hanyu pinyin. At times the radical for a character can be quite arbitrary. I believe it is no longer the case,