Learning Chinese Characters from Ms. Zhang is a set of textbooks used for an elective course of Chinese characters for foreign students at the beginning level. Highlighting the formation of a character by combining different component parts, From Characters to Words establishes association and analogy among Chinese characters. This book groups pictophonetic characters by their phonetic elements and provides various tips for memorizing characters, aiming at helping learners master a system, by which they can change the regular pattern of Chinese characters' formation into a law of learning Chinese characters.