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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Pictogram Palace: A Chinese Character Dictionary: Keyed to Hanzi Gong, 汉字宫 The Treasure House of Chinese Characters

Pictogram Palace: A Chinese Character Dictionary: Keyed to Hanzi Gong, 汉字宫 The Treasure House of Chinese Characters

Engle, Eric

Paperback

Series: Quizmaster Learn Chinese 学中文, Book 4

Chinese

ISBN10: 1090129823
ISBN13: 9781090129826
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 14 2019
Pages: 188
Weight: 1.36
Height: 0.49 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English

Are you ready to unlock the secrets of the world's oldest writing system, the world's first civilization, and the world's most popular language? With Hanzi Gong's Shuangfa Method, you'll learn to read and speak Chinese, understanding what the characters really mean and how the characters are combined to form other characters. You can read Chinese!

Chinese started out as pictograms: pictures of literal objects. These pictures however became stylized and standardized and simplified to make writing easier. The pictures and symbols of the simplest characters are then combined and recombined to form pictophonetic characters which have have at least a phonetic sound key and a semantic key. Chinese characters are a grand puzzle and real joy because each character has an inner logic that conveys its meaning. Chinese is basically sight reading by syllables, and once you understand to start with the pictograms and that the phonetic clues are syllables not letters it becomes a wonderful adventure!

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