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Guide to Korean Characters: Reading and Writing Hangul and Hanja

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Publisher: , 1979
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From the publisher’s website:

Guide to Korean Characters provides for the first time in English, a practical 367 page handbook for students of the Korean language. It contains all you need to be a literate student of the written language of 78 million Korean people, including hangul, the Korean alphabet, and 1,800 Chinese characters taught in Korean schools.

LKL says:

User-friendly reference volume for getting a better understanding of the most common Chinese characters used as building blocks of Korean.

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