You know that “Thousand Character Classic” you see in books about Japanese history (that is where I have seen it most, I guess it comes up in Korean and Chinese history as well). It was used as a basic text to teach children how to write Chinese characters.
I finally looked it up today to see exactly what it looks like. Ouch! While there are many basic and frequently used characters (in our own contemporary times) I can’t say that many of these 1,000 characters would have made the cut for teaching elementary school…
You can buy your own wall chart version of the classic here. And in case you want to know how to pronounce those characters in the Hakka dialect visit this site (Big-5 Encoding).
Wow, thanks for the link. I’d heard of it but never seen it.
I suppose I should fight the temptation to learn it. Yeah, I don’t think that will be very hard to do.