[...]... (Ito-hen) 121 rqp 122 136 (Ami-gashira) nn, TC, M, w 137 ft (Me-gashira) 123 (Hitsuji-hen\ 135 & 138 XVII B / Shoku, sliki XVIII & XIX *,, jlj 197 6000 CHINESE CHARACTERS CHINESE- JAPANESE-ENGLISH RADICAL ORDER Z,u t ina, sezu, arazu i Stroke radical 21 Characters Not, negative verbal suffix it Kou, ataeru beg, bestow To Hitotsu, hajime One, the beginning i~T* =3- *Ushi Hinoto, tsuyoi, ataru, sakan... study of Chinese characters The book its is meant to be suggestive rather than exhaustive, so purpose will not have been achieved to pursue inquiries far beyond what is many if are not helped by offered here The it six thou- sand odd characters given will be found, however, to cover quite thoroughly the ground traversed by most writers It is claimed that anyone mastering the four thousand characters. .. the columns of the Japanese press with ease made Naturally much more can be collection of six thousand characters said for a carefully Prof B H Chamberlain us that 9,500 is the maximum number of characters employed in this country ; of which 3,000 are exceedingly rare Of the Tokyo " The number of characters kept on hand printing offices, he says, in all the usual varieties of size and 'face' is 6,100;... found The preface to Dr Gring's Eclectic Chinese- JapaneseEnglish Dictionary gives excellent suggestions, and Chamberlain's Moji no Shirube is, of course, a classic No less essential is it to with the number of strokes in the become thoroughly familiar radicals, their order, and the method of writing beginning on to this latter task will recommend Chinese his own Characters, be well spent Time spent in... to; " " before a C0r,=Correct form The mark H radical in the margin indicates that the list of characters under it begins on the reverse of the page The mark " O " found before certain characters indicates that they are among those that Prof Chamberlain has referred to as "Just these 2,450 indispensable characters. " The endeavour has been made to group these at the beginning of each set having a primitive... of something at:d over five thousand characters, with Romaji and English features, of pocket size, and indexed In the end the five thousand characters grew to six thousand However, it is hoped that the disadvantage of a somewhat thicker book will be fully offset by the greater certainty of finding the character sought Mr Jones at once began the task of selecting characters and preparing copy Laboring... imagination hard Some characters are more frequently used to express a transitive action, some a name, some a modifying idea, but that does not preclude other uses on occasion INTRODUCTION VIII In order to make use of even an indexed dictionary like this, it is most desirable that the student should master the radical?, giving especial attention to those under which the most characters are found The... practice to present a copy to young missionaries of special linguistic promise One of these books was given to Rev J Ira Jones, a student missionary at Fukuoka When Mr Jones took up the study of the Chinese characters in earnest, he applied the index principle to the dictionary There was nothing original in indexing the side margin with numbers for the sets of radicals from one stroke to seventeen But... particular hook is always counted as a single stroke wherever found It will not do to think that there is anything hit or miss about writing the characters and counting the strokes It is true that there is much faulty writing and there are many so-called vulgar characters, but the best dictionaries discriminate very carefully, INTRODUCTION IX and note exactly what is the correct and what the common usage,...PREFACE Some years ago the present writer discovered a small ChineseJapanese dictionary containing five thousand characters It was in fact just what he wanted, but fairly well printed, was portable, it was nearly out of print He was fortunate enough to obtain a dozen copies in an obscure . class="bi x0 y0 w2 h7" alt=""