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1200 Chinese Basic Characters for Students of Cantonese. By K. P. K. Whitaker. With an introduction by W. Simon. London: Lund Humphries, 1953. xlii, 316. 25/-.

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1200 Chinese Basic Characters for Students of Cantonese. By K. P. K. Whitaker. With an introduction by W. Simon. London: Lund Humphries, 1953. xlii, 316. 25/-.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

Søren Egerod
Søren Egerod
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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , November 1954 , pp. 93 - 96
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1954

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1 The inclusion of the comparatively small number of local Cantonese characters side by side with the “orthodox” or general Chinese characters is no problem at all. They are indispensible to anyone who seriously wants to work with Cantonese, and their structure causes no special problems.

2 A Transcription for Cantonese. Notes on Mr.Chao, Yuen Ren's “Cantonese Primer.” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Vol. XIII (1949–1950).Google Scholar