2500 Mandarin Chinese Dictionary Characters (A-Z) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798887340197)

There are thousands of Chinese characters that need to be learned in order to efficiently master the language. The volume aims at proving sets of related characters that share related pictograph and pinyin (for example, the characters 方 邡 坊 芳 枋 钫 防 妨 肪 纺 昉 舫 放 鲂 仿 访 彷房 all share a similar Romanization tag: fang). In particular, this book includes-

A. 2500 Mandarin Chinese characters in the tabular forms;

B. Pinyin and associated meaning of the characters;

C. 54 chapters; 52 chapter names in A-Z order;

D. Character sets that look similar and have related pinyin (i.e. 吨 盹 囤 沌 砘 钝 顿 炖);

E. List of Chinese names, surnames to illustrate the example usage of the characters;

F. List of Chinese provinces with their one-character (short) names.

Overall, the volume provides 2500 simplified characters in a single volume to learn the Mandarin Chinese reading fast.