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What Character Is That?: An Easy-access Dictionary of 5,000 Chinese Characters (edit title/settings)

by Gam Go (Author) (edit contributors)

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Ping-gam Go creates a dictionary ideal for the western student. This dictionary has been referred to as the Chinese Rosetta Stone . A must for every Chinese language student, it is the only dictionary where characters are looked up using the English word of the root (named the radical ), of... read more

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The origin of Chinese characters goes far back to the early history of China as can be established from word-signs on broken pieces of pottery dating back to around 5,000 BC and from oracle bones made of tortoise shells dating from the Shang Dynasty (1523-1027 BC).

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