In order to solve the difficulties in learning Chinese characters for foreigners, especially for beginners in non-Chinese character cultural circle, and to stimulate the interest of foreigners in learning Chinese characters, this book takes the hieroglyphic features of Chinese characters as an learning point, fully considers the learners’ Chinese language proficiency and cognitive characteristics based on extensive research and overall justification. Taking the Chinese character dimensions of the Chinese Proficiency Grading Standards for International Chinese Language Education as an outline, it introduces the most commonly used 135 Chinese characters in twelve themes including heaven, earth, time, direction, plants, animals, people, human body, folklore, actions, objects, clothing, food, housing and transportation. Based on the ideographic feature of Chinese characters, this book is equipped with archaic characters and beautiful hand-drawn drawings for each Chinese character to facilitate learners’ associative memory and understanding of the meaning of the characters. At the same time, the book also equips each Chinese character with Pinyin , example words, example sentences, expanded high-level vocabulary, and English translation, making it suitable for learners of all levels of Chinese.

Wang Chao (Editor-in-Chief) is an associate professor in the School of International Education, Dalian Polytechnic University, who is mainly engaged in Chinese teaching, management of teaching affairs and social practice of international students. Professor Wang has presided over a number of national and provincial scientific research and teaching and research projects, and published many academic papers. He has guided Chinese and foreign students to participate in the “Chinese Bridge” series of Chinese language competitions, the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Programme for College Students, the “Challenge Cup” National Extracurricular Academic and Technological Works Competition for College Students, and the “Creating Youth” Entrepreneurship Competition for College Students, and has won many national and provincial awards.

Pictograms, visualized! Engaging in reading, learning by heart!

This book is a popular Chinese character culture book, aiming to facilitate foreigners with no basic Chinese language knowledge to understand the culture of Chinese characters and learn Chinese characters more intuitively and figuratively through presenting the pictorial features of Chinese characters.

This book can be used as a popular Chinese character and culture book, and a teaching material for international Chinese teachers in Chinese character classes.