Shan Lin-Chinese Vocabulary Builder

Lin Shan has formulated a logical way of learning the Chinese characters, that is, grouping words having the same “root” and then deriving their meaning by applying 60 basic radicals. Studies have shown that characters with a combination of “radical” and “root” account for 85% of all Chinese characters, either frequently or infrequently used. In this title, the author has listed 60 radicals followed by 200 frequently-used roots.