Monday 17 February 2014

bashou dream kanji

 

the eye, there in the grasses, and under the earth, night, as if a dark field

when in a one moment, a change

 
and then only the sound of the wind through the trees ...
 
梦 





幻 朧 闇 鬱 欝

   

 

  

 

jisho HO - is a fire starting ?


As fine a kanji tool as jisho.org is, it does have subtle flaws.  Take



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.)