There are things that “Chinese by Numbers” does that no other book does.
- It lists all the printable (simplified) Chinese characters in a complete, compact list
- It shows the relative importance of each character through its font size
- It assigns a unique number to each entry, for fast reference
- It permits you to search for characters in three different ways
- It permits you to search on every part of a character
- It permits searches on the phonetic component of a character
- It allows you to construct an unknown character by building from small to larger components
- It lists all the characters sharing common phonetic components in groups
- It allows searches on two components combined
- It rewards your existing knowledge to short-cut your identification of new characters
So if you are looking up new characters, reviewing your vocabulary, checking meanings or checking tones you will value having this book with you whenever you are studying.
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