Used as a standard by students and teachers in learning Chinese for morethan three decades, the best-selling Reading and Writing Chinese has beencompletely revised and updated! Reading and Writing Chinese places at your fingertips the essential 1,725Chinese characters' up-to-date definitions, derivations, pronunciations, andexamples of correct usage by means of cleverly condensed grids. Newly updated and revised, these characters are the ones officially prescribedby the Chinese government for the internationally recognized test of proficiencyin Chinese, the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi (HSK).