Idk but ik that we learn kanjis in primary school - sorry if this doesn't help much Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Zhen Lin Zhen Lin 4, 1 1 gold badge 25 25 silver badges 31 31 bronze badges.
There are 75, kanji currently encoded in Unicode available today, and another roughly 5, scheduled for the next Extension F update.
And there will be more after that. I'd like to see sources for this answer — ssb. Which is every character you can represent in Japanese on a standard computer. I'd think even the most well-read of Japanese people wouldn't recognise even characters unless they studied specifically for that purpose. Sorry, I had misremembered hearsay. Dono, yes, but many of those separate encodings are effectively duplicates, so I don't think that number can be used meaningfully.
This deserve a whole question. Sorry, I should have translated it as "stench. If I was tasked with manually digitalizing thousands of characters I might also add something extra :p — a Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown.
Featured on Meta. Now live: A fully responsive profile. Version labels for answers. Onyomi is for when the character stands alone or with other kanji. But even that bit of info only gets you so far. Because of multiple readings of kanji, your 2, journey to kanji-fluency is actually many times more difficult.
But does it stop there? Oh no…. Once you can recognize them, you can start combining them. If you can write it, even better. A truly robust understanding of kanji would be knowing at least one kunyomi and one onyomi of each kanji although some have only reading, fyi , preferably within the context of a bit of vocabulary. Writing kanji on a computer uses a sort of auto-complete system. You type out the way a kanji sounds, and the options for all kanji with that reading show up in a dropdown menu.
We can do better it turns out. I did a review a while back about WaniKani , which is a great resource for many people for learning kanji. The premise is simple. Learn some super-simple radicals. Then learn a bunch of super-simple kanji that use those radicals.
Then learn some compound words that use those kanji. Then rinse and repeat with harder radicals and more complex kanji. Do that over and over for a while and viola! My personal favorite system comes from a book I mentioned earlier in this post.
This is, in my humble opinion, the best resource out there for learning kanji. It introduces kanji to you in the perfect way, balancing simplicity , frequency , and similarity. That is to say, he starts by showing you frequent, simple kanji, and groups all the kanji that seem similar. Lots of people take their sweet time learning this stuff.
Some people go all out. Become familiar with them so they stop seeming like strange squiggles on the page. About two thousand will do the trick. Now get studying! Strictly for learning to simply recognize them, you could go for anywhere between 5 and 30 a day. Start with the radicals and use them as building blocks to learn the rest.
And use mnemonics to speed things up. Small images or stories will help the kanji stick in your brain faster and longer. You could just learn Japanese by watching dramas.
First, learning to speak any language involves learning to read it as well. This is taken for granted with languages like Spanish or German that use the same alphabet as English.
Unfortunately for Japanese learners, this means getting your head twisted around by the confusing world of kanji. Second, learning kanji helps you better understand new vocabulary. When you learn new words, you can guess at meanings if you know the kanji. Kanji is similar to the affixes we have in English. Finally, if you ever plan to live in Japan, learning kanji is more than just a language skill. Learning kanji involves a two-pronged attack: 1 Drilling and rote memorization and 2 real-life interaction.
I learned kanji mainly by using flashcards. I would drill meanings and readings. When there was one I knew completely, I took it out of the deck.
The most popular flashcard app is Anki. You also need to balance your daily drilling with some real-life kanji study. You should do this too, as much as you possibly can. One great way to learn kanji in real-life contexts is FluentU , a site for learning Japanese through real-world videos.
FluentU takes real-world videos—like music videos, movie trailers, news and inspiring talks—and turns them into personalized language learning lessons. It naturally and gradually eases you into learning Japanese language and culture.
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