Third, in much the way that knowledge of latin and greek word roots can help English speakers to understand words that they don’t know, kanji and their radicals (parts of kanji) can help Japanese speakers to understand unfamiliar words.

Third, in much the way that knowledge of latin and greek word roots can help English speakers to understand words that they don’t know, kanji and their radicals (parts of kanji) can help …

Sep 28, 2015 · One of the first real novels I read was Banana Yoshimoto’s Kitchen (キッチン), which was not only short but had relatively simple Japanese and Kanji. I nearly always force …

The first Japanese collection of poems, Kaifuusoo, was given out at 751 CE. Here it says it was written in Japanese, though with Chinese characters because they didn't have their own writing …

Apr 16, 2018 · Well, as any student of Japanese language knows, learning kanji is difficult. Historically, only men were allowed to be educated in reading and writing kanji, so women of …

Japanese characters. Kanji are complicated. Some words require more than one character (e.g. plane – 飛行機) and some can do with just one. The ones consisting of multiple characters …

This system used Chinese characters, but they were marked with small kana like marks to rearrange the sentences according to the rules of Japanese grammar. In other words, it was …

Nov 16, 2011 · The ideographic iteration mark (々) is used to indicate a plural meaning; it is pronounced as though the kanji were written twice in a row. The Japanese government …