《Chinese Radicals: Chinese-English v.1》

PENG’S CHINESE TREASURY This series of books aims to make th3 learning of Chinese easy, delightful and stimulating. Each title comes alive with Peng’s funny, warm and meaningful illustrations. Titles in this series: Chinese Idioms Vol. 1 & Vol. 2 Chinese is an extremely expressive language in which vivid and colorful idioms dominate everyday speech. This selection of idioms comprises 250 idioms based on the local primary and secondary school syllabi. The idioms are classified thematically and sentence examples are given to show their application. The hilarious cartoons make learning the idioms ever more interesting! Hanyu Pinyin This book describes and explains the romanised Chinese phonetic system. An efficient and internationally accepted system for conveying the sounds of the Chinese language, Hanyu Pinyin is an important tool to learning the Chinese language. Simplified Chinese Characters This book outlines systematically the principles governing the simplification of Chinese characters. An invaluable aid to the learning and understanding of simplified characters in contemporary usage, it also provides the regular forms from which these simplified characters are derived. Chinese Radicals Vol. 1 & Vol. 2 In the Chinese language, there are altogether 214 radicals, or root elements, on which Chinese characters are based. Here, the more fundamental radicals are analyzed and explained with carefully chosen examples. The emphasis in these books is on the vital contribution of radicals to meaning and a deep appreciation of their contribution in order to better comprehend the language.