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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
This is a handy dictionary to own., 8 Dec 1996
By A Customer
_Read and Write Chinese_ lists 3,200 useful characters and is very
easy to use. You simply look up the character you want in the English,
Cantonese romanization, or Mandarin romanization index and you are
referred to the proper page(s). Each character also contains a reference
number, Mandarin pronounciation, and Cantonese pronounciation. Each
character contains a stroke order chart.
There is a calligraphy tutorial, a section on determining the
character's radical, a radical index, and indices by Mandarin,
Cantonese and English.
This is a handy book to have. If you have ever used a Chinese
dictionary, you will agree looking up words by Mandarin or Cantonese
romanization is much easier. However, _Read and Write Chinese_ doesn't
take the place of a good Chinese-English dictionary for it
doesn't contain compounds. For example, you can find "ship"
(chuan) and "chief" (zhang) but you cannot find the combination of
these characters which produces "ship's captain" (chuan-zhang).
Otherwise, _Read and Write Chinese_ delivers what it promises, an
easy guide to Chinese characters.
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by Philip Yungkin Lee
by Kwan Choi Wah
by Hugh Baker
