The Most Common Chinese Radicals (Chinese and English Edition)

I find this book to be incredibly helpful mostly because a lot of people do not understand when it comes to writing Chinese or Japanese that everything is based on the radicals and the radicals are well broken down and allows a person to really understand the writing of Chinese or Japanese characters it is the same as when you are reading the English lettercapitalize be are capitalized p if you cut the letters and half you wouldn't know which letter it actually is until you saw the entire pictures of this is what this book does it breaks down the radical system so you can understand how to read and write much better I would recommend it to everyone

This is a great guide for learning the radicals. However, must be noted that the book only contains the majority of popular radicals, not a complete list.

One of my life's ambitions is to learn to read Chinese characters. If I could pick up a Chinese Bible or a newspaper, read, and understand it, I'd be very fulfilled. The question is, how do you learn those characters? They are so intricate! I have asked Chinese speakers and university professors and they say, learn the radicals. The radicals are the heart, or basic structure, of the character. This book begins with Chinese Character terms. Much of them concern strokes (another key to learning!). There is stroke order and stroke numbers. Then, it discusses various characters--one-component, pictograms, indicative, and combined characters. This book covers about one hundred radicals.

very nice treatise on radicals - a must for Chinese language buffs

The material of the book is not very durable. Even the cover gets wrinkled easily. The content is ok, with easy to understand radical explaination.

It's ok

If you have ever struggled to understand chinese characters or look up a chinese character in a dictionary without knowing the pinyin, or conversely, started noticing that similar words (homonyms, animal names etc) contain some similar character elements and were fascinated, this is the book for you.It clearly shows the most common chinese radicals in detail.Each radical (simple, base part of a character... sort of like "road" in English is part of railroad, roadster, roadie etc) has these elements in the book:-a diagram showing ancient drawing of the character, two more historical developmental steps to show its evolution into the modern character, along with a note of what it is supposed to look like "looks like the crescent moon" "looks like a man sitting down" etc-the pinyin name of the character and the english meaning-what sort of words it is found in (words relating to food, to weather etc)-where it is usually found in characters (ie "usually found on left hand side of characters)-a strokes order diagram as well as several squares in which to practice writing it yourself, along with the number of strokes-several examples of characters which use that radical in it, again with pinyin and english meaning. A breakdown of the parts of the character and an explanation of how the meaning of the radical enlightens us on the meaning of the character: this really helps one to retain the meaningThe radicals are in alphabetical order by their pinyin, which enables one to look them up easily on the pages.And there is a page at the back telling how to look up characters in a chinese/english dictionary if you don't have the pinyin, by radical and stroke number. It is followed by a radical index to this book, very similar in makeup to the radical index in a dictionary. This would help one practice looking up unknown characters in such an index.All in all, the illustrations and characters and large and clear, the layout is open and approachable, the explanations are simple, clear and short, it is not text heavy like many chinese learning books. One flips through the pages and is drawn in rather than daunted.An excellent book.

lacks detail explanation of contents -very poorly done in comparison to other books availableit is a quick read . i would not recommend it unless perhaps to primary school children

enjoying working through the radicals

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