Helen Gilhooly Easy Introduction kanji and kana lexicon for Teach Yourself Beginner Japanese

漢字 · かんじ

Aule Kanji Pages · Kanji Recog Pages

The old rōmaji “Beginner Japanese” book by Helen Gilhooly in the “Teach Yourself” series has no kana or kanji index for its 20 chapters.

Here are the basic kanji with the kana (hiragana and katakana) for her topics within those chapters:
 

初めまして

初め に

話しましょう

単語表

会話

ヒント

説明

例

練習

テスト

復習

答え
日本について

読みましょう

…

and I offer for free —

家事
童話

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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 !)

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katakana and hiragana charts PNG

I have placed two Japanese kana chart images at aule-browser.com/nihongo :

aule-browser.com/nihongo/images/hiragana-rs-72pt-1280-960.png

and

aule-browser.com/nihongo/images/katakana-rs-72pt-1280-960.png

which were both created using an easy to edit script in the Curl web content language ( formerly MIT Curl before being marketted by Curl Corp and now maintained in Version 8 by SCSK of Tokyo.)

The font in this case is 72pt HanaMinA in navy blue on a cornsilk background.

The same basic charts in Meiryo font can be seen at

aule-browser.com/nihongo/images/hiragana-rs-72pt-1280-960-meiryo.png

and

aule-browser.com/nihongo/images/katakana-rs-72pt-1280-960-meiryo.png

The Curl macros used are simply table, row and cell as in

  {table 
         {row {cell A} {cell B} {cell C} ... }
         {row {cell J} {cell K} {cell L} ... }
         ...
  }

A few blank cells were used for alignment where no character exists in a given column and are merely

   {cell \ }

The slash + space gives us a space character rather like a non-breaking blank in HTML.

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hiragana katakana

Views of the hiragana and katakana contents of the edict2 Japanese-English dictionary have now been added at http://www.aule-browser.com/kanji/index.html#browse.

Here is screenshot of the new additions as they linked on the HTML page:

 

Here is the HTML view of the katakana index :