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Hyphens in the kun'yomi readings separate kanji from their okurigana. The "New" column attempts to reflect the official glyph shapes as closely as possible. This requires using the characters 𠮟, 塡, 剝, 頰 which are outside of Japan's basic character set, JIS X 0208 (one of them is also outside the Unicode BMP). In practice, these ...
The New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary (新版ネルソン漢英辞典, Shinpan Neruson Kan-Ei jiten) is a kanji dictionary published with English speakers in mind. It is an updated version of the original dictionary authored by Andrew N. Nelson, The Modern Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary .
Note that within the Jōyō Kanji there are 62 characters the old forms of which may cause problems displaying: Kyōiku Kanji (26): Grade 2 (2 Kanji): 海 社; Grade 3 (8 Kanji): 勉 暑 漢 神 福 練 者 都; Grade 4 (6 Kanji): 器 殺 祝 節 梅 類; Grade 5 (1 Kanji): 祖; Grade 6 (9 Kanji): 勤 穀 視 署 層 著 諸 難 朗; Secondary ...
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.
Ken'ichi can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: 賢一, "wise, one" 健一, "healthy, one" 憲一, "constitution, one" 謙一, "humble, one" 建一, "build, one" 研一, "polish, one" 兼一, "concurrently, one" The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.
A list of all jōyō kanji according to Halpern's KKLD indexing system, with the kyōiku kanji coloured according to grade level. 1946 created with 881 characters [1] 1977 expanded to 996 characters [1] 1989 expanded to 1,006 characters [1] 2017 expanded to 1,026 characters [1] The following 20 characters, all used in prefecture names, [3] were ...
Furigana (振り仮名, Japanese pronunciation: [ɸɯɾigaꜜna] or [ɸɯɾigana]) is a Japanese reading aid consisting of smaller kana (syllabic characters) printed either above or next to kanji (logographic characters) or other characters to indicate their pronunciation. It is one type of ruby text.
2010: The list was revised on 30 November to include an additional 196 characters and remove 5 characters (勺, 銑, 脹, 錘, and 匁), for a total of 2,136. The amendment also made changes to the readings of kanji present in the previous jōyō kanji list. Twenty-eight kanji gained new readings, three kanji lost obscure readings and the kun ...