Features pictures and jigsaw pieces - to learn written Chinese by learning the meaning of 235 characters that combine to form hundreds more. This book helps you understand the origin and usage of 235 Chinese characters. This is a new, highly visual, fun way - using pictures and jigsaw pieces - to learn written Chinese by learning the meaning of 235 characters that combine to form hundreds more. To say that characters are pictograms based on the shape of objects might make you think they must be memorized one by one. But as English has an alphabet, Chinese has about