Wednesday 3 September 2014

Unicode sorted kanji Conning Halpern


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Unicode-sorted kanji of Conning KLC with Halpern KLD id


This is my new Curl applet with a Unicode-sort version of the Conning and Halpern kanji with Kodansha KLC mapped to Kodansha KLD :



The RichText edit widget is a scratch work pad for building sets of kanji to review on any given day.


Monday 1 September 2014

Sam Hamill's page 44 translation of a tanka by Yosano Akiko


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Japanese Kanji Recognition Mnemonics through poetry : KanjiRecog

Recognize and recall kanji read in Japanese poetry 


The original Japanese poem for the tanka on page 44 of Sam Hamill's "River of Stars" volume of Yosano Akiko poetry translations is

こころみにわかき唇ふれて見れば冷かなるよしら蓮の露

taking こころみ as 試み

New kanji might be lips, cold water, lotus and dew.

唇 冷 蓮 露


KKLC KKLD_2-Ed
1847   2385    唇
0675   0061    冷
0585   2047    蓮
1907   2454    露

KKLC Kodansha Kanji Learner's Course, 2013, Andrew Scott Conning
KKLD 2nd ed. Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary, 2013, Jack Halpern


Adobe Reader PDF Text COPY : kanji + furigana copied


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The image below is of a PDF open in the latest Adobe Reader ; as you see, the text copy selection also grabs the furigana, producing slightly problematic results as plain text.

Web page copies tend to place the furigana in-line, which is even worse!

A typical result from Adobe Reader follows:

夜の 
ちやう
帳にささめき尽きし星の今を 
げかい
下界 の人の鬢のほつれ

Is the last item furigana or not?

Compare my Curl markup example in this blog post. The MIT Curl browser plugin is available at the Tokyo SCSK site.