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# Reading & Writing Chinese: Traditional Character Edition, A Comprehensive Guide to the Chinese Writing System

**Brand:** william mcnaughtonli ying
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- **What is this?** Reading & Writing Chinese: Traditional Character Edition, A Comprehensive Guide to the Chinese Writing System by william mcnaughtonli ying
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent and essential resource for learning traditional Mandarin!!!
*by K***L on July 9, 2025*

Score 11/10 !!I cannot say enough about how helpful this has been towards my learning traditional Mandarin:I love the history behind these beautiful characters, helps with recall too.Clear depiction of the sequence of strokes for each “word” - but logically skip some strokes with more multifaceted characters after the learner is already familiar with basic characters.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great for people wanting to learn stroke order!
*by G***S on February 28, 2008*

First of all, I would like to note that I own the old version of this book, the version that uses handwritten forms as opposed to the new version which uses Kaishu script, and the old version also uses the Yale system and not pinyin (which is slightly annoying, I'd reccomend getting the new version to people if that's an option for them). But I do have to say, this book (old/new/whatEVER version!) is good at ONE thing that is invaluable to people wanting to learn Chinese, and that is giving stroke order for 1,065 of the most commonly seen characters! I would reccomend this book for that reason and that reason alone as once you've mastered this first set, most times it's easier to figure out how to write other characters so it lays a GREAT foundation for studentsIf you're a beginner who is serious about wanting to learn Chinese it should be a no brainer to buy this book (or the simp. version of it if you want to focus solely on simp. forms)!!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent study tool
*by M***1 on June 10, 2008*

Favorite features:- Shows "most likely" characters first so you learn what you need early on rather than esoteric ones you don't- Shows simplified characters as well as traditional. It's not as hard or important to learn the radicals (and butchered etymology) for simplified characters as it is for traditional, so including smaller simplified characters where appropriate offers the best of both worlds. Better than buying the Simplified version w/tiny traditional characters & less explanation. If you know stroke order for traditional, you can figure out simplified - not as easy the other way around.- Explains constituent parts/radicals just prior to more complex characters so you see how they're built.- Includes most common definitions & multiple pronunciations, plus helpful examples that tie to previous entries for reinforced learning.- It's $5-$10 cheaper here on Amazon than at local bookstores (if they even have it).Problem areas:- I have found some index errors & incorrect references between character entries, probably left over from the previous edition. They're minimal though.********************I've essentially been going through the book & copying down each entry for practice. I learned many of the characters through years of studying Japanese, but I've already learned more about the structure & logic behind the radicals, sound-loans, etc than I did w/Japanese.This is a great companion study guide to actual "reading" material and spoken language practice that reinforce each other. No single book will teach you a language by itself. Combine w/ChinesePod (awesome!), PlecoDict software or formal classes.

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