kana-free Text 3 reduced to 1,125 kanji

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Aule Kanji Pages · Kanji Recog Pages

These are the end rows of the text file when we remove duplicates to the point at which the character count reaches 1,125 kanji :

浮活改善運動住視覚評機能視視打活改善盟綱領項協協究
宇精執筆保也奇屋紹究全測昭院院主批判打兼雪準江慮指
摘兼偕茨城著別照毛越磐郡旧院磐郡光駒根乗谷倉福福芳
苔府龍丈府右恵林指梨甲州妙退蔵院府右龍曹府右徳院府
鹿閣府徳龍院丈府慈照銀閣府圓徳院府巴府旧乗院奈良奈
良養院庫粉竹林知知旧院粉福芳徳龍院玉養浩福福福福敦
賀青滋賀軒蘭滋賀浜玄滋賀彦根滋賀津桂離府院離府醍醐
宝院府願院府条城丸御府丈府院府徳丈府詩府府松府幡根
城丸紅渓養翠音院鳥鳥徳城旧徳城御千閣徳徳松玄栗林条
城城丸紅渓音院渉慶雲滋賀浜無鄰庵府府府碧雲荘府慶阪
府阪荘府依奈良奈良裏千又妙庫登録念最登録件温荘潮遊
個最無鄰菴慶温荘昭福丈府松尾松府城府根阪府堺堺根足
根根専誌念照欧鼓橋篭奔放制職招制江幕府薩摩動伊郎雇
革真真視覚販売児玉英際第復刻談復刻刊英諸採旅惹経験
著協役割果龍松助究育傍著英訳紹第姉妹衆愛専誌項幽玄

Many, many duplicates now leap out at you, right ? Do you recall any mnemonic for them or for some related kanji ? A topic ? A story ?

Grab two rows from the file and try to say by scanning along each row if the row has duplicates found in the other row. Take a moment. Look forward. Glance back ( we often have to glance back when learning to read in a second or third or distantly-related script !)

These two rows are easy :

府阪荘府依奈良奈良裏千又妙庫登録念最登録件温荘潮遊
個最無鄰菴慶温荘昭福丈府松尾松府城府根阪府堺堺根足

These two rows are at the top of my practice file :

弥哀徳尊庶霊沼鳥飛歴魚沼満跳故恭遊后蔬菜培実質允恭
傍櫻華段階妥推弥呉橋斉斉百済帰畔弥呉橋根欄干橋蘇我

For me, this morning, I don't recognize 蔬 ... BUT : I did note its features in comparison to 4 other kanji in these last 2 rows and THAT is what I need to develop : the capability to note features, respond to features, aware or unaware as I may be that these are distinctive for my reading. As a professor of mine once wrote, " to be is to be distinguished."

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Note on Kanji Recognition Texts

漢字 · かんじ

Aule Kanji Pages · Kanji Recog Pages

About the KanjiRecog pages : an article reduced to fixed columns without most of its kana cannot be READ, but the task for a kanji learner is to be forced to RECOGNIZE and identify and notice and recall.

Some katakana show up less ; some hiragana are not in common use and it can be instructive to ask : is that the katakana character or the VERY similar kanji ( there are a few of these. )

Sometimes I use my editor to reset the single column of text to 5 characters wide, sometimes 50 ... the recognition challenge changes. At 5 wide, for me, the kana stand out clearly as do many duplicates in a text.

But you will not likely be aware of what tips you off that THIS kanji is not what you expected and that one is its duplicate. You don't need to learn it now : the exercise is for your capacity to discern features. Some of it you will need to do actively, but much of it comes passively if you look at enough kanji !

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