How Long to Read The Quick Guide to Chinese Characters -- Desk Edition
By Clopper Almon
How Long Does it Take to Read The Quick Guide to Chinese Characters -- Desk Edition?
It takes the average reader 5 hours and 20 minutes to read The Quick Guide to Chinese Characters -- Desk Edition by Clopper Almon
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Description
This Quick Guide arranges the 7000 most used Chinese characters in order by radicode, a combination of the English name of the character's radical in a list of 102 radicals and a numerical code quickly made up by looking at the character. 100 of the radicals are meaningful or descriptive and helpful in remembering the character. (Most of these 100 are among the 214 traditionally recognized radicals.) If the character does not have one of these radicals - as happens for about 14 percent of characters - it is classified as AA unless it is split vertically, in which case it is AB. If you already know 200 or so characters, you can learn the basic system in about 20 minutes and then find characters as fast and almost as confidently as finding words in a dictionary. Once you find the character, you get its pinyin pronunciation, basic meaning, frequency, and idiomatic use in common two-character combinations. The numerical part of the radicode is made by assigning numbers between 0 and 7 to the strokes in the character after removing the radical. This system of stroke encoding -- not stroke counting -- was developed by two Chinese authors. The strokes are taken in a geometrically determined order, so it is not necessary to know the caligraphic order used in writing the character. The XinHua Dictionary with English Translation was used as a guide for pronunciation and meanings, but Internet resources such as The Flora of China, Avibase, Fish Base and the Chinese Wikipedia were consulted where appropriate. While the Quick Guide is primarily a guide to characters rather than a dictionary of two- and three-characters words, the 6000 or so of these words used in the intermediate level of the official test of proficiency test in Chinese (HSK) have been included. Each of these words is listed under its first character, and its pronunciation and meaning are given. The content of the desk and the compact editions is the same; only the format is different. The desk edition with its 8.5 x 11 inch pages has slightly larger type, is thinner and slightly less expensive than the compact edition with 5 x 7 inch pages.
How long is The Quick Guide to Chinese Characters -- Desk Edition?
The Quick Guide to Chinese Characters -- Desk Edition by Clopper Almon is 320 pages long, and a total of 80,000 words.
This makes it 108% the length of the average book. It also has 98% more words than the average book.
How Long Does it Take to Read The Quick Guide to Chinese Characters -- Desk Edition Aloud?
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 17 minutes to read The Quick Guide to Chinese Characters -- Desk Edition aloud.
What Reading Level is The Quick Guide to Chinese Characters -- Desk Edition?
The Quick Guide to Chinese Characters -- Desk Edition is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.
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