Saturday 15 February 2014

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



Thursday 13 February 2014

え essential ON-yomi イ


え as an essential ON-yomi イ

    絵
    会
    依
    恵

   
    絵     ON-yomi   エ、 カイ     ON-yomi ONLY 
    会     ON-yomi   カイ、エ     kun-yomi     あう
    依     ON-yomi   イ、エ        kun-yomi     よる
    恵     ON-yomi   ケイ、エ     kun-yomi     めぐむ、めぐまれる


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Monday 10 February 2014

dawn in early hokku or haikai


In my working wiki web collection of 980 Bashō haiku, I can only find one of today's nine single kanji for "dawn" —  旦 旴 昉 昕 倝 晗 暁 曉 曙  — and that kanji − is there only once as such, and then once transliterated with the "akarui" kanji to form the kana expression "akebono" as in "akeru" (明ける.)

Were these kanji eschewed as being those of more formal Chinese poetry ?

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