What Character Is That?
Subtitle: An Easy-access Dictionary of 5,000 Chinese Characters
Edition: 2nd edition
Publisher: Simplex Publications
Published: May 1, 2002
Language: chi; eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780962311352
Subjects: Language; Foreign Language Study; Foreign Language - Dictionaries / Phrase Books; Chinese; Reference / Foreign Languages; Chinese language; Dictionaries; English; Etymology
First sentence: The origin of Chinese characters goes far back to the early history of China as can be established from word-signs on broken pieces of pottery dating back to around 5,000 BC and from oracle bones made of tortoise shells dating from the Shang Dynasty (1523-1027 BC).