Blog on Japanese kanji study pages and applications at kanji.aule-browser.com · Some pages are plain-HTML with no scripts, ad's or nuisance images. Some links are to Curl web content app's using the Surge RTE browser plugin from www.curl.com · The emphasis is on kanji recognition, recall and mnemonics.
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
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