Download or read book TPS Frequency Dictionary of Mandarin Chinese written by Michael Burkhardt and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-05-20 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The TPS Frequency Dictionary of Mandarin Chinese is not just another character frequency based dictionary. It has been designed to provide students with a guide for learning new characters, words, and phrases gradually, building upon characters already familiar. The entries have been arranged according to a Triple Progression System in which words are grouped first by character frequency, then by word frequency, and filtered so that new words and phrases appear only after all of their component characters have been introduced.