New Members phonsem Posted July 21, 2020 at 06:53 AM New Members Report Posted July 21, 2020 at 06:53 AM One of the cornerstones of learning Japanese is the Remembering the Kanji series by Heisig and the Japanese edition has a separate volume for the readings. It lists the phonetic-semantic characters in groups by the phonetic radical, for example showing that the character 情 implies it's reading on the right side. It has more than one possible reading while some others have only one - nevertheless a very helpful trick to learn the readings. Since I started learning Mandarin, my plan was to quickly grab a book like that and start learning the readings the easy way. But.... It's seems such a book does not exist! What do you guys think about this? Have you ever come across such a book? Or could I use a dictionary that lists characters by radicals to look for similar readings? Any suggestions? Thank you! Quote
Dlezcano Posted July 21, 2020 at 08:48 AM Report Posted July 21, 2020 at 08:48 AM Although not quite common, those books do exist. The main problem is that they are aimed at native speakers, so if you have a beginner level you won't get much about the explanations. In another post I already talked about this topic and I uploaded some images of a book called 形声字谱, I hope you can find it. Edit: I also found a book aimed at children which is called 汉字开花. Maybe it could be suitable for foreign students. You can check it out here: https://www.zgxjjw.com/news/2019/07/11951.html https://www.openschoolbag.com.sg/product/etutorstar-word-blooming-pack- 1 Quote
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