Wednesday, 20 August 2014

A new Conning - Halpern reverse index for kanji study


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Aule Kanji Pages · Kanji Recog Pages

I have prepared a reverse index from the new Halpern 2nd Editi0n of the Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary to the Conning mnemonics book Kodansha Kanji Learner's Course ( the Conning has a Halpern number with each entry. )

The index is fun as you can identify and grab a series of adjacent Halpern indices which are often consecutive entries in Conning.

Once the index is validated, I will post it here and perhaps at the Fb KanjiRecog page.




Monday, 11 August 2014

oku no hosomichi kanji


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Aule Kanji Pages · Kanji Recog Pages

The image below is from my evolving HTML page of Bashō's oku no hosomichi travel journal [ 奥の細道 ] with furigana as superscript and the kanji that are neither in the most common newspaper 2,500 nor in KLC* are hi-lighted with a yellow background. Note that the 2 kanji forming his literary name are among those of note. Perapera shows many as being found in Heisig's Remembering the Kanji.


* KLC  = The Kodansha Kanji Learner's Course, 2013, Andrew Scott Conning


Kozuka Mincho kanji font


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Aule Kanji Pages · Kanji Recog Pages

I am finding that I like the Kozuka Mincho Pro M font : 



One nice thing is that on Windows it does not flip the backslash glyph, i.e., \ char, to the Yen glyph ! It has no effect on anything other than the page presentation ( your character is there, behaving as it should otherwise) but it is such a vexation !