Saturday, 28 June 2014

Kodansha Essential Kanji notables list


If you use the so-called "compact" Kodansha Essential Kanji Dictionary, here is a list of 100+ large entries that might be good for vocabulary reviews :

1, 4, 6, 10, 16, 19, 24, 30, 31, 38, 49, 68, 102, 145, 150, 152, 160, 162, 171, 174, 180, 181, 188, 189, 196, 243, 260, 267, 269, 270, 275, 276, 284, 285, 320, 326, 330, 344, 367, 388, 397, 401, 404, 405, 408, 410, 413, 470, 473, 489, 511, 513, 566, 574, 611, 625, 664, 681, 687, 688, 695, 699, 702, 705, 725, 766, 785, 836, 839, 847, 862, 932, 933, 935, 949, 955, 956, 963, 984, 988, 1000, 1003, 1046, 1048, 1128, 1133, 1149, 1150, 1151, 1181, 1200, 1280, 1290, 1293, 1303, 1320, 1327, 1360, 1397, 1383, 1385, 1428, 1459, 1543, 1587, 1768, 1773, 1790, 1802, 1808, 1837, 1840, 1862, 1900, 1924

Most of these are entries of more than one page in my edition.

Any suggestions for additions /deletions ?




Henshall ON-yomi-ONLY sorted


Today I added 2 CSV files (comma-separated fields) of the Henshall ON-yomi-ONLY kanji per KANJIDIC2 of edrg.org entries.

One file is sorted by Unicode value (the character, as this is a UTF-8 file) and one by the Henshall ID.

The fields are kanji, UCS, ID, ON-yomi, meanings (as found in kanjidic2 ; up to 14.)

An example (note ·  used to separate ON-yomi ) :

不,4E0D,572,フ·ブ,negative,non-,bad,ugly,clumsy,,,,,,,



Friday, 27 June 2014

Henshall versus kanjidic2


Henshall gives 貝 as かい but jisho.org and such give

貝 バイ  かい shellfish

which I think of as English "buy" with French "caille".

The Kanji Learner's course also has only the hiragana, which makes sense, because the common words and expressions are built with かい.

However バイ is what you find in the name of 貝 as radical 154.