Jim... I am really, really impressed by your "Rosetta Stone." What an
accomplishment that is! I can only imagine the amount of actual time
you invested in that project (which is apparently ongoing).

Not all manufacturers have include a Pin Yin name either. Although I'm
sure that most of the products which are packaged especially for the
overseas English speaking areas do. The market I go to most frequently
(Well-Farm) has a wide mix of products and very many teas are
apparently packaged for domestic (their own) use. Not to mention the
very interesting-looking assortments of packaged herbs and herbal
"teas". (I would just love to experiment with these, if I even knew a
tiny bit about what they actually are)

In my brother's Japanese character "dictionary", the ideograms are
generally classified by the number of radicals they have. This, mind
you, is just what he tells me, I haven't taken that particular bull by
the horns yet. There are also other systems of classification,
apparently.

I just can't imagine that there is not somewhere a decent "abridged"
version of the above. How do they teach children to read & write? I'm
not looking for an equivalent to a desk model unabridged dictionary.
For my purposes, that would be like swatting a gnat with an atomic bomb.