ISBN10: 0486213218, ISBN13: 9780486213217, [publisher: Dover Publications, Inc, New York] Softcover 820p. A softcover book in very good condition. Edges lightly rubbed and owner's stamps inside, but otherwise clean and tight. Ca. 1980s reprint of the 1965 Dover edition, which was itself a reprint of the original 1927 edition.
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ISBN10: 0486213218, ISBN13: 9780486213217, [publisher: Dover Publications Inc., New York] Softcover Paperback. For at least 2,000 years Chinese scholars have conducted research into the writing system. In addition to the study of origins and the processes by which new characters are created, Chinese scholarship has been especially interested in creating a rational classification of characters for dictionary use, which would show historical relationships, idea relationships, and phonetic features. This volume, by one of the most profound Sinologists of the twentieth century, summarizes such traditional Chinese scholarship and carries research farther into the analysis of the writing system.The heart of this book is a series of etymological lessons, in which approximately 2,300 Chinese characters are classified according to 224 ""primitives"" upon which they are based. For each character Father Wieger gives the modern form, its archaic form, literary pronunciation (Wade system), explanations of origin, semantic content of component parts, related characters, variant forms, quotations of classical usage, and similar material. The explanations of symbolic content are particularly rich, and gather the most important traditional explanations (especially the Shuo-wen of Hsu-shih) as well as the author's own research.To make his book more useful Father Wieger has also incorporated a tremendous number of reading aids for the student: listings of the ...
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ISBN10: 0486213218, ISBN13: 9780486213217, [publisher: Dover Publications Inc., New York] Softcover Paperback. For at least 2,000 years Chinese scholars have conducted research into the writing system. In addition to the study of origins and the processes by which new characters are created, Chinese scholarship has been especially interested in creating a rational classification of characters for dictionary use, which would show historical relationships, idea relationships, and phonetic features. This volume, by one of the most profound Sinologists of the twentieth century, summarizes such traditional Chinese scholarship and carries research farther into the analysis of the writing system.The heart of this book is a series of etymological lessons, in which approximately 2,300 Chinese characters are classified according to 224 ""primitives"" upon which they are based. For each character Father Wieger gives the modern form, its archaic form, literary pronunciation (Wade system), explanations of origin, semantic content of component parts, related characters, variant forms, quotations of classical usage, and similar material. The explanations of symbolic content are particularly rich, and gather the most important traditional explanations (especially the Shuo-wen of Hsu-shih) as well as the author's own research.To make his book more useful Father Wieger has also incorporated a tremendous number of reading aids for the student: listings of the ...
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ISBN10: 0486213218, ISBN13: 9780486213217, [publisher: Dover Pubns] Softcover 3rd edition. 820 pages. 6.50x6.00x1.50 inches. In Stock.
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ISBN10: 0486213218, ISBN13: 9780486213217, [publisher: Dover Publications June 1965] Softcover Previous business sticker on spine.
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ISBN10: 0486213218, ISBN13: 9780486213217, [publisher: Dover Publications Inc. Feb 2000] Softcover Neuware - Rich analysis of 2,300 characters according to traditional systems into primitives. Also reference lexicon of 7,000 characters.
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ISBN10: 0486213218, ISBN13: 9780486213217, [publisher: Dover Publications Inc.] Softcover 1965. 2nd. Paperback. Translator(s): Davrout, L. Series: Dover Language Guides. Num Pages: 832 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; CJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1068. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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Dover Publications 1965 2nd ed. Trade paperback New 1965. 2nd. Paperback. Translator(s): Davrout, L. Series: Dover Language Guides. Num Pages: 832 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; CJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1068......We ship daily from our Bookshop.

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Dover, Date: 1965 820 pp. This Dover edition is an unabridged and unaltered reproduction of the second edition, published by the Catholic Mission Press in 1927. The first edition was published in 1905Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Covered are bright and undamaged save for upper front dogear. Spine sun-lightened.. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Dover ISBN 0486213218 9780486213217 [US]

ISBN10: 0486213218, ISBN13: 9780486213217, [publisher: Dover Press, New York] Softcover ISBN: 0486213218 - Softcover in good condition - delivery 2005 - book with illustrations and 820 pages - Reprint edition - Index English Literature
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New York: Dover Publications, Date: 1965. 8vo., paperback, 820pp. 1.2Kg.. As new. Clean, bright and tight. Unused. First published in 1915. Dover Publications ISBN 0486213218 9780486213217 [GB]

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Dover, 1965. pbk 820pp very slight reading crease but basically unused excellent clean tight text Dover, 1965 ISBN 0486213218 9780486213217 [US]