ISBN-10: 7800523284, 7-80052-328-4
ISBN-13: 9787800523281, 978-7-80052-328-1
Format: Softcover, 214 pages, 187mm x 257mm
Shipping Weight: 470g
Language: Simplified Chinese, Pinyin, German
New Edition: 2011
The Origins of Chinese Characters (漢字字源入門), with German annotations.
The book selects 631 components, radicals and basic characters which can form multiple derivatives, demonstrates their development from shell and bone form, bronze inscription, to seal characters, and clearly explains their origins through hundreds of illustrations.