Thursday, 5 June 2014

haiku kanji kana


In making a list of the kanji used by Bashō in his haiku, I decided to produce a version of the haiku with most kana suppressed.

Here is one snapshot from a list of haiku running in rows left to right :

I find it quite fascinating to scroll nearly 1000 rows after removing nearly as many of one hiragana character. Which do you think it was ?





Thursday, 22 May 2014

偶 and 彙


Here I accidentally found a couple of kanji - an even number of them - of the same kind !

So we would accept them as man and wife !

and

グウ ;  たま  and   イ ;  はりねずみ

http://jisho.org/kanji/details/偶 彙

The same kind !  What kind ?  LINK to

Yes - and the same ! LINK to




Wednesday, 23 April 2014

5 ON-yomi-only Kanji for today


5 音読 only 漢字

Overall, it takes 5-a-day to learn the basics in 2 years ... so here are 5 by

カ、キ、ク、ケン 、コウ

as 音読 ONLY 漢字 :

 
佳、汽、句、券、郊

Can you alter or improve this set of 5 with alternatives that form a mnemonic that is more effective for you ?


Are you expecting a flood this season ?  Is that your subject of study ?

Here is my mnemonic.