333 Hanzi In A Day

The other day I stumbled across this great e-book for learning Chinese characters (hanzi). I found it while I was browsing through scribd and managed to fine the main website which had the e-book for free and a heap of other resources.

http://www.kanji-sudoku.com/

Now, when you go to the website, you will fine a heap of stuff for learning Japanese Kanji. Don't worry, you are at the right place! Most Japanese Kanji is based off Chinese characters (hanzi) and therefore, there is a large set of characters that look identical in both languages. In many cases, the meaning is also the same but I'm pretty sure the pronunciation is always different between the languages.

Pretty much everything you will want is found in the lists of links on each side of the homepage, specifically the right hand side which contains all the links for the actual downloads. The list of links on the left seems to mainly be links to pages with information on the given topic and doesn't contain the link you need to download. As this page is made primarily for Japanese Kanji, you will see that there is not too much for Chinese but what they do have seems fantastic.

You will find:

• 333 Hanzi In A Day e-book
• Chinese sudoku using numbers 1-9 in the form they are written for legal/financial documents
• 12x12 sudoku using the Chinese Zodiac characters
• Hanzi Crossword Puzzle

These are all really useful ways to practice your basic characters. I haven't tried them out yet but after having a read through the e-book, I thought it looked very practical and really made sense learning characters that were so similar. I found even in just a few minutes of looking at some characters, it really aided my memorisation of their meaning and construction.