The author spent decades writing the book "Interesting Chinese Characters". This book collected a total of 2,762 Chinese characters, including 281 borrowed characters, 281 returned characters, and 2,200 derived characters. Involves an introduction to the evolution of Chinese hieroglyphs and other contents. When writing a manuscript, the author strives to make it "interesting, easy to recognize, and easy to remember" for readers. The writing follows the textual research and research standards, reads extensively, traces the source, looks for the root of the word, quotes from other sources, explains accurately, and writes plainly.
Reader comments
The compilation is not very good. Logically speaking, people who read this book will use it as a tool for learning oracle bone, metal and seal script. However, as a reference book, it is not detailed enough. (I used this as a temporary excuse before the dictionary came back)
This book is very interesting! It allows us to understand the evolution of Chinese characters by introducing the borrowed characters, returned characters and derived characters of 2762 Chinese characters. The author's writing style is plain and his explanations are accurate, making the book interesting, easy to recognize and easy to remember. As the book says, "Chinese characters are the treasure of Chinese culture," this book is a window for us to understand the culture of Chinese characters.
The compilation is not very good. Logically speaking, people who read this book will use it as a tool for learning oracle bone, metal and seal script. However, as a reference book, it is not detailed enough. (I used this as a temporary excuse before the dictionary came back)
This book is very interesting! It allows us to understand the evolution of Chinese characters by introducing the borrowed characters, returned characters and derived characters of 2762 Chinese characters. The author's writing style is plain and his explanations are accurate, making the book interesting, easy to recognize and easy to remember. As the book says, "Chinese characters are the treasure of Chinese culture," this book is a window for us to understand the culture of Chinese characters.