• Chinese Characters: Recognition (English-Chinese Edition): A Practice-Based Course for Intermediate Learners
  • Chinese Characters: Recognition (English-Chinese Edition): A Practice-Based Course for Intermediate Learners
  • Chinese Characters: Recognition (English-Chinese Edition): A Practice-Based Course for Intermediate Learners
  • Chinese Characters: Recognition (English-Chinese Edition): A Practice-Based Course for Intermediate Learners
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Chinese Characters: Recognition (English-Chinese Edition): A Practice-Based Course for Intermediate Learners

Chinese Characters: Recognition (English-Chinese Edition): A Practice-Based Course for Intermediate Learners

15 Lessons on Stroke Order, Radicals, Semantic Components, Phonetic Series and Word Formation — Built Around Games, Puzzles and Exercises Rather Than Lectures, with Character and Vocabulary Lists
This is not a dictionary of Chinese characters, and it is not a beginner‘s handwriting workbook. It is the second volume of a two-part character course—the “Recognition” half, designed for learners who already know some characters and are ready to understand how the system actually works. Instead of lecturing you on theory, it gives you games, puzzles, and open-ended exercises that make you notice patterns for yourself: why certain components carry meaning, how phonetic series work, how characters combine into words. The 15 lessons cover stroke order, radicals, semantic components, pronunciation, and word formation, with character and vocabulary lists at the back. The author, Wan Yexin, is a professor at Beijing Language and Culture University, and the course was trialled at the University of Zurich before publication. If you want to move from memorising characters one by one to understanding the system behind them—rather than read a reference dictionary or a beginner’s textbook—this is it.
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 Most people learn Chinese characters by copying them a hundred times — and forgetting them by next week. Chinese Characters: Recognition takes a different approach.

Published by The Commercial Press — China‘s most respected academic publisher — and written by Wan Yexin, a senior Chinese-language instructor at Beijing Language and Culture University, this textbook is designed specifically for foreign learners. Its core idea is simple: Chinese characters are not random symbols. They follow a system. Over 15 lessons, you’ll learn stroke order rules, what radicals mean, how semantic components reveal meaning, how to predict pronunciation from phonetic components, how Chinese words are structured, and how to look up unfamiliar characters in a dictionary-.

Every lesson is built around open-ended exercises and games — not rote drills. The entire book includes Chinese-English bilingual explanations, so English-speaking learners can work through it directly-. By the end, when you encounter an unfamiliar character, you won‘t panic — you’ll know where to start. This book gives you the method, not just the answers.

The Commercial Press is one of China‘s most authoritative academic publishers, and this book is a classic in its Chinese-as-a-foreign-language series. Reader feedback includes: “The best character-learning book of its kind” and “Commercial Press quality — thick paper, clear printing”-

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