About Chinese Character Finder Color The Chinese Character Finder was originally conceived as a way to quickly access the meaning of Chinese characters without having to contend with the rigamarole of counting the number of strokes in a character, which is typical in the use of Chinese dictionaries. Alternatively, one is faced with having to haphazardly guess under which of the 214 historically prescribed "radicals" a particular character is categorized. With the Finder, it is hoped that the characters can be accessed and learned in the context of their visual characteristics. While I don't advocate foregoing the learning of the radicals, I have attempted to create a tool to aid in learning the characters progressively emphasizing patterns in certain combinations of strokes. It has been my pleasure to organize this Finder for use by others, while (myself) benefitting by learning the characters in the process.   Bibliography Cosmos Books Ltd. A Current Chinese-English Dictionary. Hong Kong, 1978 Foerster, Andreas and Tamura, Naoko. Kanji ABC. Charles E. Tuttle Company, Tokyo, 1992 Hong, Beverly. Speak Chinese Today. Charles E. Tuttle Company. Tokyo, 1991 Karlgren, Bernhard. Analytic Dictionary of Chinese and Sino-Japanese. Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner. Paris, 1923 Kennedy, George A. Minimum Vocabularies of Written Chinese. Far Eastern Publications, Yale University. New Haven, 1954 Mathews, R.H. Chinese-English Dictionary. Harvard University Press. Boston, 1924 McNaughton, William. Reading & Writing Chinese. Charles E. Tuttle Company. Tokyo, 1979 Takebe, Yoshiaki. Kanji Isn't That Hard. ALC Press Japanese Textbook Series. Japan, 1993 Times Publishing Group. Times Chinese-English Dictionary. Singapore, 1980 Wieger, L. Chinese Characters. New York: Dover, 1915   Colophon This project began in late 1996 with the use of Apple's Hypercard application. After deciding to make a website out of the material created in that program, the work was transferred to ClarisWorks, and the groupings portion of the site was largely created with the drawing module of that program. With the advent of Mac OS X and its adoption of Unicode, finding programs compatible with Chinese fonts required much less effort. Hogbay Software's Mori became the new platform for organizing the material and Stone Design's Create was invaluable for producing the groupings webpages with ease.     the Author Harry Li studied Fine Arts at the University of California at Berkeley and Columbia University, and presently lives and works in New York City.