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  2. Japanese numerals - Wikipedia

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    As with Chinese numerals, there exists in Japanese a separate set of kanji for numerals called daiji (大字) used in legal and financial documents to prevent unscrupulous individuals from adding a stroke or two, turning a one into a two or a three. The formal numbers are identical to the Chinese formal numbers except

  3. Stroke order - Wikipedia

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    Japanese stroke order: Prescribed mostly in modern Japan. The standard character set of the MEXT is the Jōyō kanji, which contains many characters reformed in 1946. The MEXT lets editors freely prescribe a character's stroke order, which all should "follow commonsensical orders which are widely accepted in the society" [This quote needs a ...

  4. Radical 140 - Wikipedia

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    In Japanese, only the three-stroke form is used for jōyō kanji (commonly used Chinese characters); the three-stroke form is recommended for hyōgai kanji, while the four-stroke form is listed as an acceptable "design difference" in Hyōgai Kanji Jitaihyō (表外漢字字体表) and JIS X 0208. In addition, 䒑 is derived from the cursive ...

  5. List of jōyō kanji - Wikipedia

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    The "Grade" column specifies the grade in which the kanji is taught in Elementary schools in Japan. Grade "S" means that it is taught in secondary school . The list is sorted by Japanese reading ( on'yomi in katakana , then kun'yomi in hiragana ), in accordance with the ordering in the official Jōyō table.

  6. Differences between Shinjitai and Simplified characters

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    For example, in Japan, 必 is written with the top dot first, while the traditional stroke order writes the 丿 first. In the characters 王 and 玉, the vertical stroke is the third stroke in Chinese, but the second stroke in Japanese. Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau use traditional characters, though with an altered stroke order.

  7. List of kanji radicals by stroke count - Wikipedia

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    The Jōyō frequency is from the set of 2,136 Jōyō kanji. [1] Top 25% means that this radical represents 25% of Jōyō kanji. Top 50% means that this radical plus the Top 25% represent 50% of Jōyō kanji. Top 75% means that this radical plus the Top 50% represent 75% of Jōyō kanji. [2]

  8. Japanese writing system - Wikipedia

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    The modern Japanese writing system uses a combination of logographic kanji, which are adopted Chinese characters, and syllabic kana.Kana itself consists of a pair of syllabaries: hiragana, used primarily for native or naturalized Japanese words and grammatical elements; and katakana, used primarily for foreign words and names, loanwords, onomatopoeia, scientific names, and sometimes for emphasis.

  9. Hi (kana) - Wikipedia

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    Example words (with kanji) Normal h-(は行 ha-gyō) hi: ひ ヒ ひ hi 日 sunlight; ひ hi 火 flame; ひかり hikari 光 shine/light; ひと hito 人 human; hii, hyi hī: ひい, ひぃ ひー ヒイ, ヒィ ヒー Addition yōon hy-(ひゃ行 hya-gyō) hya: ひゃ ヒャ ひゃく hyaku 百 one hundred; にひゃく nihyaku 二百 two ...