300 Chinese Characters in a Day

This book is a foray into the ideographic nature of one of the world's most ancient systems of writing - Chinese. Presented in this book is an ideographic explanation of the first 300 characters in a list of the most frequent Chinese characters. The ideographic associations, the author believes, constitute a powerful learning aid which can shorten the time taken to familiarize oneself with these three hundred ancient characters from a period of several months of study to a period of less than 24 hours intense exploration. The explanations given are not explanations of characters as symbols, but plausible ideographic associations of the character's visual form with the popular meaning the character has in current usage. Further, it is for the first time in recorded history that it is being demonstrated the possibility that all Chinese characters can be understood as pure ideographs.