Tsze Teen Piao Muh: A Guide to the Dictionary - Couverture rigide

Jenner, Thomas

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 135583192X ISBN 13 : 9781355831921

Editeur : Palala Press, 2016

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Owing to the extreme complexity of the Chinese ideographs, Western scholars are generally discouraged to grapple with them, though the importance of China, politically, commercially, in literature, or otherwise, is well recognized and commands serious attention. Therefore anything that purposes to make easier the study of the Chinese language must be welcome. Mr. Thomas Jenner, member of the China Society, offers us in this book a certain artificial method of memorising the Chinese radicals which is based upon the psychological principle of association. The principle was first applied to a practical use by William Stokes, teacher of memory, and the author has utilized it for his Chinese study, finding it very practicable. The book contains not only the list of radicals, but also the names and dates of the twenty-six Chinese dynasties and two hundred thirty-seven emperors, all numerically arranged; along with a chapter on the geography of China and its map, and followed by some other sundry matters among which an account of the Chinese swan-ben (abacus). These compose Part I of the book.

The second part is devoted to the Japanese Katakana syllabary. It also contains the names of the emperors and a map of Japan.

To illustrate Mr. Jenner's method of memorizing Chinese radicals, I may take one instance from the book. The 119th radical is mi, meaning "uncooked rice." To memorize the sound and the meaning of the character, the author devises the word-combination "meal of rice," and then he composes a sentence containing this combination, thus: "These broad cloths are damaged with the meal of rice," a complete association of ideas being thus formed. While some of these memorial sentences arc very good, others seem to be unsatisfactory, and the author may in another edition replace them by better ones.

The same method is applied to the Japanese syllabary commonly known as iroha (Japanese alphabet). But in this case the method is much simpler, for the Japanese syllables are not complicated. The second character of iroha is ro, which when written in Katakana style looks like a square, that is, "The row-lock hall of an ancient gallery"; and thus the sound and the symbol are associated together in memory.

— The Open Court, Volume 22 [1908]

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palala Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 135583192X
• ISBN 13: 9781355831921
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 166
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible