Common Character Riddles Dictionary

Author: Yang Hongqing
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Publish Date: 2002-09-01
Features: This dictionary highlights the visual and intuitive characteristics of Chinese characters by directly and indirectly explaining their forms, stimulating the visual cortex. It also stimulates the auditory cortex through the corresponding pronunciations of the characters. Additionally, it uses familiar objects from students' daily lives as clues to stimulate the language center and memory chunking. The guiding philosophy of this book aligns with the principles of neuroscience and cognitive science, as well as certain laws of thought science, thus opening an important path for scientific character recognition. The book includes 2,500 commonly used characters. The main text is divided into two parts: riddles and answers, both arranged in the order of Pinyin letters of the single characters and numbered sequentially from 1 to 2,500. At the beginning and end of the main text, there are a Pinyin syllable index and a stroke index. The riddles are primarily written from an artistic perspective. They employ metaphors and exaggeration to shape vivid images, dual meanings to inspire association, and vivid descriptions to paint scenes, encouraging imaginative exploration. The use of radicals with characters resembles a network, prompting thinking from different angles, and various techniques are employed to hint at the forms of characters, promoting understanding and memorization. The answers: These are the entries of a new type of mini-dictionary. They primarily provide interpretations of each character based on its form, integrating form, sound, and meaning to emphasize the fundamental characteristics of Chinese characters in conveying meaning (including phonetic components for phono-semantic characters), breaking through difficulties in character forms, and facilitating learning. The book includes 2,500 commonly used characters. The main text is divided into two parts: riddles and answers, both arranged in the order of Pinyin letters of the single characters and numbered sequentially from 1 to 2,500. At the beginning and end of the main text, there are a Pinyin syllable index and a stroke index. The riddles are primarily written from an artistic perspective. They employ metaphors and exaggeration to shape vivid images, dual meanings to inspire association, and vivid descriptions to paint scenes, encouraging imaginative exploration. The use of radicals with characters resembles a network, prompting thinking from different angles, and various techniques are employed to hint at the forms of characters, promoting understanding and memorization. The answers: These are the entries of a new type of mini-dictionary. They primarily provide interpretations of each character based on its form, integrating form, sound, and meaning to emphasize the fundamental characteristics of Chinese characters in conveying meaning (including phonetic components for phono-semantic characters), breaking through difficulties in character forms, and facilitating learning.