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Foreword
This Dictionary of selected Chinese characters, together with its cross-references, has
been prepared with the aim of helping non-Chinese-speaking students of the char-
acters who are just emerging from the initial stage of study. It is in the form of a sup-
plement to the standard Chinese–English dictionary, adding two features not present
in such a dictionary, in the hope of offering these two further aids to the memory in
the difficult task of fixing the link between the character, the sound and the meaning.
The first, and more significant, of these features aims to stress the importance of
the phonetic element in the Chinese characters by grouping together the most fre-
quently used characters which have the same ‘phonetic’ under one ‘key’ character
and linking them by cross-references.
The second feature attempts to deal with a simple but persistent difficulty for the
foreigner: the tendency to confuse similar looking characters which need to be
distinguished one from another. These difficult cases are confronted by printing the
characters next to one another and again linking them with cross-references.
As a student of the Chinese characters I have found, and continue to find, the use
of these two aids in memorising characters increasingly useful. In presenting this
list, primarily for the use of students, may I invite comments from all those inter-
ested in the process of acquiring a reading knowledge of Chinese.
Acknowledgements
I would like to express my gratitude in the first place to two specialists in Chinese,
Dr Valerie Pellatt of the University of Newcastle-on-Tyne and Dr Nigel Wiseman of
Chang Gung University, Taiwan, who, over a number of years, encouraged me to
persist in my efforts to acquire a reading knowledge of Chinese. They, together with
a number of other friends, were kind enough to read through and make comments
on the various drafts of the material which was being compiled during this rather
lengthy process and which then formed the basis of this Dictionary. I remain
conscious of the debt of gratitude I owe to them and to Jackie Addison, Moira
Bambrough, Professor Greg Benton of Cardiff University, Jim Doyle of Napier Uni-
versity, Edinburgh, and to two former colleagues in the Department of Languages
of Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh: Professor Ian Mason and Dr Jerry Payne.
Even though I did not always accept the comments and criticism offered, I was
always glad of the opportunity to discuss the points raised and, while incorporating
some of the suggestions made, I must stress that I bear the sole responsibility for the
arguments put forward in the Preface and Introduction to the Dictionary and for
any errors which occur in the entries in the Dictionary.
Stewart Paton
Edinburgh April 2008
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