The revised 2nd edition of Xinhua Xiezi Zidian includes now the most popular 3,500 Chinese characters and introduces them in a grid with Pinyin, combined words, number of strokes, radical, writing direction and stroke order. In Simplified Chinese characters only.
The core aim of this book is to help Chinese language learners master the rules for writing Chinese characters and write Chinese characters correctly. The book includes more than 3,600 characters, covering characters required in various Chinese teaching syllabuses.
The main part of this Chinese Character Writing Guide consists of 15 chapters of elementary level. Each chapter teaches 20 new characters, so together there are 300 characters for beginners in this basic volume.