Mastering Chinese characters in reading and writing is the key to
mastering vocabulary and all the practical language skills involved in
Chinese language study. This book introduces the reader to the 2436
Chinese characters for the six levels of the official Chinese Language
Proficiency Exam (HSK) by offering information on their pronunciation in
Hanyu Pinyin, their basic English meaning definitions, their stroke
order and other relevant information. Exercise sheets are included for
each character entry with gray shaded lines that allow to draw along the
character lines with a thin pencil in the correct stroke order. For HSK
exam preparation, the book may be used to concentrate on Chinese
characters not yet known while disregarding those already known. Other
students who are not preparing for the exam may benefit from this
dictionary and book of exercises as well.