The study of Chinese characters has been refined through thousands of years. There are two major categories in general; the intensive method and the dispersed method. Starting from 1960s, a special Chinese character learning method, the "family word" study, was established. After 20 years of continuing research and development, this teaching method has been adopted broadly in Chinese word study, particularly, in the second and third levels of word studies, and utilized in diverse Chinese learning textbooks. Mr. Dachang Ji developed a "root word" system. It extends about 300 "word families"...

The study of Chinese characters has been refined through thousands of years. There are two major categories in general; the intensive method and the dispersed method. Starting from 1960s, a special Chinese character learning method, the "family word" study, was established. After 20 years of continuing research and development, this teaching method has been adopted broadly in Chinese word study, particularly, in the second and third levels of word studies, and utilized in diverse Chinese learning textbooks. Mr. Dachang Ji developed a "root word" system. It extends about 300 "word families"...