Friday, 27 June 2014

Henshall ON-yomi-ONLY kanji


I have placed 2 CSV files on the kanji.aule-browser.com site.

One has 366 Kanji from the Henshall 1946 kanji : these 366 only have an ON-yomi given in kanjidic2 from edrdg.org and are listed with their Henshall index, UNICODE value, ON-yomi and meanings.

There is the one oddity : for 'fence' which is given as kokuji but has no kun-yomi.

There is a separate file with the few kokuji with ONLY a kun-yomi that are are found in Henshall according to kanjidic2.

I will do a spot check on these as I have my edition of Henshall indexed for these.




Tuesday, 24 June 2014

grandfather and sparrow


But what is that kanji ?

むかし、むかし、あるところにおじいさんとおばあさんがいました。
おじいさんは、とても心の優しい人でしたが、おばあさんはたいそういじわるな人でした。



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The kanji 宿 starts with the same mora for its kun-yomi.






Friday, 6 June 2014

autumn wind kanji


Here is an image of the Curl applet with Bashō haiku with most of the kana removed:


I find this encouraging as a student of kanji ... I see at a glance how far I have come and how far I have to go yet !

kana : Japanese syllabary characters, either hiragana or katakana ( as easy as Italian or Russian.)
kanji : characters from Chinese used for their sound, their meaning or both ( and multiples of these !)