Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Account of the Structure of Chinese Characters Under 300 Primary Forms: After the Shwoh-Wan, 100, A. D., And the Phonetic Shwoh-Wan, 1833
To the majority of students of Chinese, whether they be natives or foreigners, eight or nine tenths of the characters in the language are nothing more than conventional signs, having no resemblance to the things, or natural association with the ideas, which they represent. The main object of this work is to point out the original resemblances of the characters to things, and explain the uses of their several parts.
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