8 docs tagged with "kanji-fundamentals"

How many kanji do you need: the cumulative-coverage curve, per use case (newspapers, novels, manga, work) and per JLPT level, with the recognition target.

How to count kanji strokes, sorted: the 永字八法 eight basic strokes, the corner, hook, and enclosure rules, why 口 is 3 strokes, and dictionary lookup.

How to look up a kanji you don't know, routed by source: Yomitan hover for digital text, Google Lens or Live Text for print, radical and SKIP for paper.

Kanji stroke order from the 1958 MEXT guide: two great principles, eight detailed rules, the 十-vs-田 cross-stroke decision, and the typing-era payoff.

History of kanji: the oracle-bone to regular-script arc, the 5th-century transmission to Japan, the 呉音 漢音 唐音 strata, and the 1946 to 2010 reforms.

The six categories of kanji (六書): pictographs, indicatives, compound ideographs, phono-semantic compounds, plus the two usage principles, with payoff.

What is kanji? A beginner's guide to how kanji works: meaning plus sound in one character, the kanji and vocabulary triangle, and where okurigana fits in.

Writing kanji by hand, decided by use case: the recognition vs production split, when IME conversion is enough, and when paper forms or exams force the pen.