夢
the eye, there in the grasses, and under the earth, night, as if a dark field
when in a one moment, a change
夣
and then only the sound of the wind through the trees ...
梦
Monday 17 February 2014
jisho HO - is a fire starting ?
As fine a kanji tool as jisho.org is, it does have subtle flaws. Take
火
カ / ひ· -び· ほ-
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Henshall 8
火星 かせい Mars (planet)
火 ひ fire; flame; blaze
口火 くちび fuse; spark plug; cause (of war); origin (of a quarrel)
BUT - no common word begins ほ- and has a kanji that starts with FIRE.
And some few uncommon words ( e.g., for tongs (i.e., the tool) ) begin KO !
It is enough to KAuse you Hee-Bee-JI-bee's ... or did I miss one in the 15 pages of 377 words beginning with ほ ? But I only want to see jukugo !
So there is a place for smart app's that use kanjidic2 or jmdict ...
Saturday 15 February 2014
ON-yomi SEKI and SHAKU
These 4 of the 20 common ON-yomi SEKI kanji are also SHAKU kanji :
石 stone; いし コク シャク セキ
赤 red; あか あか- あか.い あか.らむ あか.らめる シャク セキ
昔 antiquity; old times; once upon a time; シャク セキ むかし
釈 explanation; シャク す.てる セキ とく ゆる.す
per kanjidic2 there are only 9 common kanji with ON-yomi of シャク - and only 8 have a newspaper frequency < 2500 ( SHAKU itself is an ON-yomi-ONLY kanji.)
20 most common newspaper kanji
1 日 day, sun, Japan, counter for days ニチ ひ
2 一 one, one radical (no.1) イチ ひと-
3 国 country コク くに
4 会 meeting, meet, party, association, interview, join カイ あ.う
5 人 person ジン ひと
6 年 year, counter for years ネン とし
7 大 large, big ダイ おお-
8 十 ten ジュウ とお
9 二 two, two radical (no.2) ニ ふた
10 本 book, present, main, origin, true, real, cntr (long cylindrical items) ホン もと
11 中 in, inside, middle, mean, center チュウ なか
12 長 long, leader チョウ なが.い
13 出 exit, leave, go out, come out, put out, protrude シュツ で.る
14 三 three サン み
15 同 same, agree, equal ドウ おな.じ
16 時 time, hour ジ とき
17 政 politics, government セイ まつりごと
18 事 matter, thing, fact, business, reason, possibly ジ こと
19 自 oneself ジ みずか.ら
20 行 going, journey コウ い.く
per kanjidic2 e-dict
Thursday 13 February 2014
え essential ON-yomi イ
え as an essential ON-yomi イ
絵
会
依
恵
絵 ON-yomi エ、 カイ ON-yomi ONLY
会 ON-yomi カイ、エ kun-yomi あう
依 ON-yomi イ、エ kun-yomi よる
恵 ON-yomi ケイ、エ kun-yomi めぐむ、めぐまれる
see also :
https://www.facebook.com/kanjirecog
Monday 10 February 2014
dawn in early hokku or haikai
In my working wiki web collection of 980 Bashō haiku, I can only find one of today's nine single kanji for "dawn" — 旦 旴 昉 昕 倝 晗 暁 曉 曙 — and that kanji − 曙 − is there only once as such, and then once transliterated with the "akarui" kanji to form the kana expression "akebono" as in "akeru" (明ける.)
Were these kanji eschewed as being those of more formal Chinese poetry ?
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