Introduction to Chinese Characters: A Great Beginner's Book

A fabulous introduction to Chinese characters for children and adults!

Best of all, no experience is needed to start. Just pick up the book and begin learning.

All the words have English translations! They also have pinyin (pronunciation guide) and stroke order (a step by step guide to writing the characters). Perfect for starting out.


For example, the number "1" in Chinese is super simple (check earlier blog posts for more on numbers). Did you know that "yi" (one) pretty much uses the same pronunciation as si in Spanish (for all of you Dora watchers out there)?

"100" is also pretty easy!

You will see the small words on the bottom right side of the two samples on the left. These are extra words that show you how this character is used in a compound word (if you add these samples, this red book gives you an additional 1200 words!)

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