I am looking for a book which follows a systematic approach for introducing first few hundred symbols, focusing on the most basic ones and how they are transformed into a commonly used components( radicals)
I already have a good book for Japanese kanji, but I cannot find one for Chinese. And the quality difference between it and most other books is so big to me that it almost makes me study Chinese using this Japanese book, which is a bit silly
This is an example of the good book(by yasuko kosaka): it is structured by radicals position and complexity, shows it's origin and usage when possible and then proceeds to teach 250 basic symbols with a similar focus And it contains no distracting information, no unnecessary pictures or mnemonics
I will be really happy if someone can give me some good recommendations
I found a book that looks more similar to the Yasuko Kosaka Mitamura scans above. It's called 常用漢字部首 The Most Common Chinese Radicals by 張朋朋 Zhāng Péngpéng. It's a bilingual combination of writing primer and radical list. It doesn't teach all of the radicals, but it uses radicals as a basis for learning and remembering characters.
Here are some sample pages (DM for the rest):
https://imgur.com/a/iiagpuz
Actually this is the one that I am currently using, so it is pretty good guess My only issue with it is that it uses multiple pages to deliver information that could be printed in a couple of lines, which makes it very hard to read and navigate. Also it is not thorough enough, so I can't quickly jump to a radical I am curious about at a specific moment like I do with Yasuko.
Another almost good enough book I found is Reading and Writing Chinese by William McNaughton, it is much easier to read it than PengPeng, but still not systematic enough, so it doesn't allow me to instantly know where to look up necessary information
In English, there is Peng's Chinese Treasury: Chinese Radicals, a couple of cutesy books that present each radical on two pages with an etymology and copious examples with them in their different forms.
More useful as a day-to-day reference is Wiktionary's radicals appendix, which presents the radicals and their variations by stroke count. For example, 忄 appears under three strokes with a note that it's a combining form of 心. Each radical is then linked to a page with a list of characters with that radical.