Re-learn familiar kanji by carefully dissecting them into meaningful components. You will notice that those meaningful units reappear in other kanji that are related in meaning or pronunciation. They give you valuable building blocks for your intermediatelevel study and beyond. Then, study sample words that use the kanji that you are studying. Learning to use a familiar kanji in different words is an effective way to increase the breadth of your vocabulary, which is an important goal of your study at the intermediate level.
If you are an advanced-level student or a teacher of advanced-level students, nearly all new vocabulary words that you will learn are compound kanji words. For that reason, knowledge of kanji is crucial to your progress in learning the Japanese language even if you are more interested in speaking than reading or writing.
Sit back, read through this book, and keep your mind open to this new approach to understanding kanji. Study the section-header table carefully, and you will begin to realize that kanji and words that did not seem necessarily connected before are actually connected. In the traditional kanji dictionaries, kanji are arranged according to a recurring part of the kanji called the section header or bushu, or sometimes known as the radical in English.
This book contains dictionary section headers. Look for the stroke number and you can quickly locate the kanji within a category of kanji. The arrangement of the section headers also follows convention.
Index 6: Arranged by the Educational Kanji. Designation This index is useful for heritage students and students who study kanji using textbooks that follow the grade designations from the Japanese government.
Here are some general thoughts for using this book. If you are a beginner or a teacher of beginners, this book will serve as a reference accompanying your primary textbook. By using the pronunciation in the textbook as your guide, you can use the index to find the desired kanji. First, read the explanation on what the kanji consists of and view the corresponding illustrations.
After you understand the connection between the kanjis form and its meaning, write out the kanji in the stroke order shown. Keep in mind that the kanji is a result of a writing process that developed over more than three thousand years and the stroke order is a part of the tradition.
Using the right stroke order will help you remember the kanji, and believe it or not, Japanese can usually tell from the writing if you did the strokes out.
If you are studying for a proficiency test, such as the Japanese Language Proficiency Test, in addition to the suggestions above, it may be useful to keep in mind the following: Many of the standardized proficiency tests require kanji recognition. This books focus on the relationship between a kanjis form and meaning is helpful to preparing for these tests because you will be able to recognize the meaning of components of unfamiliar kanji.
The sample words were chosen for its frequent use in Japanese newspapers on-line media, in particular and will be useful in expanding your vocabulary along with deepening your kanji study. If you are a parent or a teacher of a student in a heritage Japanese language school or supplementary Japanese school , this book is a good reading book for your student.
A gap between fluent speaking skills and lower-level kanji knowledge can hinder further learning of compound words, which is essential in reaching adult-level proficiency. This book will fill that gap. The visual illustration that shows the origin of kanji in this book will motivate younger students to stay interested in kanji and maintain their efforts in Japanese language study.
For any student, the visual can only aid in comprehension. Together they described a state in which ones heart was filled with an emotion and it was hard to move on, that is, love. The kanji means love. The top of the older form had hollow in the ground, indicating something suppressed. The bottom depicted an anatomical shape of a heart, signifying heart or feelings. Together they indicated bad feelings that were suppressed or simply bad or evil.
The kanji means bad or ill. Inexpensive things are less stressful to buy; hence, another meaning was inexpensive. The kanji means secure or peaceful and also inexpensive, cheap. The old form consisted of smothering cover, bone joint, and meat or flesh of dog or animal, which indicated sweet meat. After eating sweet meat, one feels full and a pressure in ones stomach. The reduced current form means to press or pressure.
This kanji consisted of sun and a sharp needle and something inside a mouth. When people try to speak with something in their mouths, their words often come out garbled or unclear. The two forms combine to indicate sun not clearly seen, and thus the kanji means dark; unclear. On the top house and woman indicated secure and peaceful, here used phonetically. The bottom wood indicated a desk. One thinks of a plan at a desk. The kanji means proposed idea or plan.
A plow is a tool used at the start of work in the field. The kanji means by means of or starting point. Together they indicated a place or approximate area where one stood, according to his rank, before a ruler or in a ceremony.
The kanji means rank, place or approximately. Together they signified a priest chanting a prayer in front of an altar. A religious rite is a celebration of a god. The kanji means to celebrate. The right side is a place where people rest and sleep, here used phonetically to indicate to shrink. When the silk thread is pulled, the cocoon shrinks. The kanji means to shrink; to reduce. The bottom is a variant form of fire. Food is cooked to ready it for eating.
The kanji means ripe or mature. The kanji means to come out; to go out; to appear; to take out; to send out. The bottom left indicated moving forward. Together they indicated to follow what preceded or to reiterate. Now the meaning of following has been dropped. The kanji now means to tell. The Graded Reading Sets allow you to begin using kanji and kanji-based words as you learn them, and to continuously review what you have already studied.
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