Tian ge ben or any similar character books

[pandamanyan]

Hey guys,

 

Was just wondering if anyone knows anywhere to get character exercise books for writing out characters (with the squares) for cheap or in a bundle? Either in London or online?

Thanks

 

 

[Ruben von Zwack]

I bought some on ebay, but I found they are so small that you cannot write much on one page. So now that I found out you can make + print your own from online, I don't use the Tian Ge Ben anymore.

If you want to print your own, too, scroll down to the bottom of the page:

http://www.incompetech.com/graphpaper/writing.html

[johnk]

I just gave away a pile of these just last week.

I got mine at the

Guanghwa bookshop

112 Shaftesbury Avenue,

London W1D 5EJ

[Meng Lelan]

Or instead of buying those little booklets you can make your own using Hanzi Grids:

 

http://www.hanzigrids.com/

[Hofmann]

So...it wasn't imron this time! 

[Meng Lelan]

Yes I took over imron's job. 

[imron]

So...it wasn't imron this time!

Things have been a bit busy recently, so I only saw this thread now -- otherwise I would have linked to HanziGrids too :-)  Thanks Meng Lelan.

[Meng Lelan]

I did wonder where imron was when I saw the title of this thread so took the liberty of jumping in here. Didn't mean to take over the world, I mean, imron's job, really, but everyone seems so busy lately and I am not, which is weird. Anyway. Something else too, even in Chinese grocery stores in Beijing they would sell small booklets of character tracing exercises, 描红 I think, someone correct me on this one. They were cheap and plentiful and I would bring back home bunches of them. Some of them weren't bad actually, especially the ones for practicing radicals. They tend to be written for children but they can be useful for those in the first year of Chinese learning. I don't know if they can be ordered online, maybe get a friend to pick up a bunch at the grocery store in China. 

[roddy]

You can also pick them up on ebay if you find the right search terms - eg

 

PS Don't forget to install Pinyinput!

[skylee]

What is tian ge ben?

[Ruben von Zwack]

These little notebooks with squares for practicing characters, "tian" like in 田

[skylee]

So it is 田格本？ Not 填格本？ ok.

[roddy]

"character exercise books for writing out characters (with the squares) "

[Ruben von Zwack]

@Skylee, yes!

[Meng Lelan]

PS Don't forget to install Pinyinput!

 

 

 

All of us here are minding imron's business.