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INTRODUCTION.

The following lists of Chinese characters, with Ro- manization, were arranged for use on the wheel of a Chinese typewriter, now in process of perfecting before introducing to the public. Four thousand six hundred and sixty-two characters are separated for rapidity in finding upon the wheel into three lists — very common, 726 ; common, 1,386 ; less common, 2,550. Extra room-space on the wheel was utilized for 162 untabnlated characters, repeated from the very common list. In writing Chinese about one-half of the characters recurring will be taken from this list, it therefore constituting the printing center. For general composition nineteen-twentieths of the characters recurring will be found within the list of 726. Nearly all desired characters out- side of this list will be found within the adjoining list of 1,386. The larger half of the wheel containing 2,550 characters will be used quite infrequently, more often how- ever as knowledge of Chinese increases. : :*•*•*• •'*'•"

These lists ought to be of value in to judge as to the relative importance of c position. It is not a very difficult matter to master a few hundred characters in writing and speech, and if they are properly selected one wakens to the pleasing sensation that they are in possession of a working vocabulary, and with this foundation additional study is without the usual sense of drudgery. The line between very common, common, and less common, can only be drawn approximately, as these orders of characters may be likened to different strata of clouds, one stratum rising above another, and yet the exact lines of separation undeterminable. As to the list in its to- tality, while including a liberal vocabulary for a native scholar, no two men would agree as to the question of add- ing or subtracting. As it stands it is the result of a con- sensus of opinion among several scholars, erring on the safe side of too many characters, with the reserved right of further revision.

D. Z. SHEFFIELD.

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