Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1拼音讲解 Pinyin

• 发音器官vocal organ, organ of articulation
• 声母initial, consonant
• 韵母 final, vowel, and semi-vowel
• 拼音规则Pinyin spelling rule
• 声调 tone
• 声调变化 tone change, tone sandhi
• 其他词汇 other useful vocabulary

Chapter 2 词汇讲解 Words

• 基础概念 basic concepts

• 词群 word group

• 词汇构成 word formation

• 礼貌用语 polite expressions

Chapter 3 语法讲解 Grammar

• 词性 parts of speech
• • 实词 notional words

• • • 量词 measure words
    • • 名量词 noun measure words

• • • • 动量词 action measure words

• • • 代词 pronouns
    • • 从文言文代词 pronoun from Classical Chinese

• • • 动词 verb
    • • 能愿动词 modal verb

• • 虚词 function words

• • • 副词 adverbs

• • • 同动词 co-verbs

• • • 助词 particles

• • • 连词 conjunctions

• • 句子成分分析 sentence parsing

• • • 补语 complement
    • • 结果补语 resultative complement

• • • • 趋向补语 directional complement

• • • • 可能补语 potential complement

• 词序 word order

• 疑问句 questions

• 特殊句子结构 special sentence structure

Chapter 4 汉字讲解 Characters

• 基本概念 basic concepts

• 基本笔画名称 basic strokes
• 基本笔顺 basic stroke order
• 基本部首名称 list of radicals
• 汉字结构 character configuration
• 汉字传统造字法 character etymology

• 汉字新造字法 creating new characters

• 汉字造字传说 legendary tales about the invention of characters

• 汉字演化史及书法 character development and calligraphy

• 汉字输入 typing in characters
• 汉字书写 the writing of characters
• 识字 character recognition
• 汉字学习策略 character learning strategy
• 标点符号 punctuation

About the Author

Bo Hu is Instructor of Chinese at the Institute for Chinese Studies, University of Oxford, UK.