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



カ /  ひ· -び· ほ-
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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