Download or read book A Guide to Korean Characters written by Bruce K. Grant and published by Weatherhill, Incorporated. This book was released on 1982 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This invaluable dictionary of characters for modern readers includes an introduction to the standard written orthography of the Korean language, hangeul alphabet, and the 1,800 Chinese characters tought in Korean schools. Background on the characters themselves is included, as well as a guide on how to write and look up by radicals in any Chinese dictionary. This handbook functions as a character dictionary: its entries are arranged in stroke-count order and it contains both a radical and a phonetic index.