June 5, 2017

How to look up a character when reading a Chinese book?




The book you might need most frequently when learning a foreign language is a dictionary, but how to look up a Chinese character? Knowing the alphabet seems to be of no use. The classical way of looking up a Chinese character in a paper-based dictionary may already require some knowledge about the structure of characters and their numbers of strokes. An alternative is the App “Pleco”. This App allows drawing an unknown character on the screen of your smartphone and returns the pronunciation and meaning of the character. 你喜欢看什么书?

/ shū / book







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