Are you interested in the Chinese script?Are you planning a business trip or holiday?Do you want to understand simple signs and notices in China?

Beginner's Chinese Script will help you get to grips with reading and writing simple Chinese, whether you are studying the language or planning a trip for business or pleasure. The step-by-step approach will build your confidence to read and write mainly simplifed characters in a variety of real contexts.

Elizabeth Scurfield is a founder member of the Chinese Department at the University of Westminster. Song Lianyi is Lecturer in Chinese at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.

introduction

origins of the script

how Chinese characters are formed

writing Chinese characters

how words are formed

signs (1)

signs (2)

signs (3)

entertainment

the weather

using a Chinese-English dictionary

taking it further

key to the exercises

table of radicals

pronunciation guide

useful public signs and notices

Chinese-English vocabulary

English-Chinese vocabulary