Monday, 4 August 2014

ONH kanji not KLC in MFNK


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These 54 kanji found in Bashō's 奥の細道 or Oku no hosomichi [ONH] are not found in KLC* but can be found in the 2,500 MFNK or "most frequent newspaper kanji" used by jisho.org, edrg and others.  The new Halpern KLD 2nd ed uses a set of 3,000 but on the web perhaps these can be found more readily as the K2500 :

也伽凌叢啄夷峯嶋嶽幡庄廟惣敦朔杭柏桧樋樫毅洛浙湊燈琵琶瑞硯碧礒禄竪笹篠篭翠耀芦芭苫菅菩萩萬萱蕉薩輔逗隈鞍鴈龍

* KLC Kodansha Kanji Learner's Course, Andrew Scott Conning, 2013


Do you recognize all these kanji from self/snake to ???


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These are jōyō kanji considered to have the same radical :







































Can you print this and put katakana to them for ON-yomi and hiragana for kun-yomi ? And a mnemonic ? But in addition to these, 2140 in the 2.5K newspaper kanji is





Sunday, 3 August 2014

Nine non-KLC kanji found in Basho's Oku no hosomichi


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Aule Kanji Pages · Kanji Recog Pages

The nine kanji 侘 俤 啼 壺 艸 虱 蜘 袂 鞋 are found in Bashō's Oku no hosomichi but neither in the Kodansha KLC text by Conning* nor in Heisig's Remembering The Kanji.

The info below is from jisho.org ( and so, edrg.org ) on the web.



8 strokes
Not a general use character
Not one of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

kun-yomi : ほこ.る、 わび.しい、 わ.びる 
ON-yomi : タ 

lonely;
proud;



9 strokes
Not a general use character
Not one of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
kun-yomi : おもかげ 
ON-yomi :
names : てい

(kokuji);



12 strokes
Not a general use character
Not one of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
kun-yomi : な.く 
ON-yomi : テイ 

bark;
chirp;
cry;



12 strokes
Not a general use character
Not one of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

kun-yomi : つぼ 
ON-yomi : コ 

jar;
pot;



6 strokes
Not a general use character
Not one of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

grass;
grass radical (no. 140);
plants;



8 strokes
Not a general use character
Not one of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

kun-yomi : しらみ 
ON-yomi : シツ 

lice;
vermin;



14 strokes
Not a general use character
Not one of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
kun-yomi : くも
ON-yomi : チ
spider;



9 strokes
Not a general use character
Not one of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

kun-yomi : たまと、 たもと
ON-yomi : ケツ、 ベイ
edge;
foot (of hill);
sleeve;



15 strokes
Not a general use character
Not one of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

kun-yomi : くつ、 わらじ 
ON-yomi : アイ、 カイ 

straw sandals;

* Kodansha Kanji Learner's Course, Andrew Scott Conning, 2013