Characters

**Character Links**
http://www.archchinese.com/ Comprehensive site for learning characters. Lots of information here. [|www.yellowbridge.com/chinese/flashcards.php] Nice online flashcards tool [|chinesebug.com] Flashcard tool specifically design for memorizing Mandarin vocabulary and characters. [|www.omniglot.com/writing/chinese.htm] Good explanation of Chinese characters [|www.sungwh.freeserve.co.uk/hanzi/index.html] Good explanation of Chinese characters [|http://www.earlyword.net/index _w.asp] Jiaguwen character images [|www.sinoling.com/linguistics/Character_pronunciation.htm] List of characters by pronunciation http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Palace/1757/scrittura/scrittura.htm Step by step lesson on characters, including strokes and radicals http://www.language.berkeley.edu/fanjian/start.html Fun page on traditional and simplified http://myweb.uiowa.edu/jiliao/menu.html Fun and interactive look at the different types of characters [|http://ultra.ihp.sinica.edu.tw/~bronze/] Fascinating page – in Chinese – on ancient Chinese characters http://www.dragonwise.hku.hk/dragon2/ Cool online interactive program – in Chinese - to help learn characters [|http://www.internationalscientific.org] Absolutely amazing site for character etymology, full of pictures from Jiaguwen on.