"Chinese Characters Are Spelled" is the advanced chapter of "Chinese Characters Are Drawn" and is a good helper for children to learn Chinese characters.
Our wise ancestors invented four ways to create characters - pictographic characters, referring characters, ideographic characters, and pictophonetic characters. The first two are single characters that cannot be separated, and most of them look like cute pictures; the latter two are compound characters that are spelled out, accounting for 95% of the Chinese character library.
"Chinese Characters Are Spelled" selected 108 compound characters. In this book, a total of 17 groups of Chinese character families are mentioned: sun character family, moon character family, dog character family, etc. Most of the members of these Chinese character families look very similar (for example: zaugao dizzy, si late spring) and have a common root. When the root is combined with a component, it becomes a new word. Once you find the roots and patterns, you can spell out many, many Chinese characters.
"Chinese Characters Are Spelled" is a fun riddle book. The front is a lively riddle, and the back is a detailed answer page. In the word interpretation page, each word is accompanied by English, explanation and glyph evolution (oracle bone inscriptions - bronze inscriptions - small seal script - simplified Chinese characters). After the child guesses what character it is, parents can follow the evolution of the character shape and explain "how Chinese characters grow up"! At the end of the page, children will be surprised to find that all the Chinese characters in the book can be strung together into a short story. The last story page is also the table of contents page.
Reader comments
And I think this book is not only a good helper for children to learn Chinese characters, but also reminds me of my own experience in teaching children to read. Just like the word "zebra" in the book, I will also explain the meaning of the word to my children. And the word "banma" reminds me of the farewell scene, which is very touching. This book is really good!
Yes, the description is very detailed. It would be better if there were specific examples of oracle bone inscriptions. After reading the test, there are also some pictures of the words found. It would be easier to read and strengthen memory.
Suitable for Chinese character enlightenment.
Okay, not bad, it's what I want to read, but it's too little. It's quite useful for understanding Chinese characters.
And I think this book is not only a good helper for children to learn Chinese characters, but also reminds me of my own experience in teaching children to read. Just like the word "zebra" in the book, I will also explain the meaning of the word to my children. And the word "banma" reminds me of the farewell scene, which is very touching. This book is really good!
Yes, the description is very detailed. It would be better if there were specific examples of oracle bone inscriptions. After reading the test, there are also some pictures of the words found. It would be easier to read and strengthen memory.
Suitable for Chinese character enlightenment.
Okay, not bad, it's what I want to read, but it's too little. It's quite useful for understanding Chinese characters.