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Gives other words that has that... A must have book for beginning Mandarin. 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The same conclusion comes from looking at the second edition, trad book and seeing how many simplified characters are given. This is a very helpful book for beginners like me, but the kindle version suffers from a serious flaw: the indexes at the back rely on page numbers for finding characters beyond than the basic 1067, but there is no obvious way of finding a given page as the "Page" box on "Go to Page or Location" is disabled and the page numbers aren't shown in the text. Includes this list: 1. These are Alan Hoenig's two books which use his own amusing mnemonics. (window.AmazonUIPageJS ? 3. That isnât a cop out! Very handy. Updated and revised compounds, plus 25% more vocabulary now offered. And it shows you the correct stroke order for writing the characters yourself. 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