Japanese Kanji

About Each Section on the Pages of Japanese Kanji

You can work your way through these cards in any of the following sequences. Perhaps if would be useful to go through the cards at least once using each sequence.
- JLPT = Japanese Language Proficiency Test level (JLPT 0 = Not on the list for any level)
- Grade = the grade the kanji is introduced in schools in Japan
- Newspaper = the frequency the kanji appeared in Mainichi Shimbun (1980-1984?) as given in KANJIDIC

Just under the kanji is my favorite "one meaning" in English and "one reading" in Japanese.
On the right are English words that cover the meaning, then the on-yomi, then the kun-yomi.
Under this is the number of strokes followed by the indexing radical.
Under this is a set of links to pages covering the same kanji on other websites.
- Breen = Jim Breen
- Ryner = Kiki's Kanji Dictionary
- Rudick = www.Rikai.com
- Ishida = www.dartmouth.edu/%7Ekanji
- Komori = MIT's JPnet (NOTE: since the charset has not been set on these pages, they may not display properly on your computer.)
- Meiko = meiko.web.infoseek.co.jp
- Hotta = Yukio Hotta (homepage1.nifty.com/hottayukio)
- Blum = Jeff Blum (www.yookoso.com)
- Danni = Danni (www.animelab.com)
- .... (more to come)

These are words that I think are the best ones to memorize in order to remember this kanji and its readings.
I chose one example of each yomi using what I felt was the most frequently-used word. In cases where the yomi is rare, then there are no examples.

If there were more than 5 words marked as "priority" words in EDCT, then a quiz is included.

I limited this list to 10 words. If there are less than 10 words, then no other words using that kanji were used more than 3 times in the data that was analyzed.
The order is based on the same word frequency list that I used for www.manythings.org/japanese/news.
Ranking:
- **** = over 10,000 times
- *** = over 5,000 times
- ** = over 1,000 times
- * = over 500 times
- no * = less than 200 times

The following have been dropped from the pages, at least for now.

I've written several email messages requesting permission to do the following, but have not yet received a reply.
These are all the words that were used on MIT's JPnet website as part of the kanji cards.
On the original cards there were only 2 or 3 words per card. I merged them together so the user has more examples on many cards on this site than on the JPnet site.
Most of these words are linked to a sound file (.au). There were a few words on these kanji cards that did not have sound files.

I'll probably eventually add this to the pages, but at this time, I think maybe keeping the pages smaller and faster-to-download might be better.
These are all the words using this kanji that were found on my list of selected high frequency words (words worth learning).
If more than 6 words were found, then instead of appearing on the page, the words are offered in the Flash Quiz/Flashcards format.

I'll probably eventually add this to the pages, but at this time, I think maybe keeping the pages smaller and faster-to-download might be better.
These are all the words using this kanji that were found on a list made by merging all the data from my "Foreign Language Vocabulary Builder" which was a computer program I wrote many years ago. I merged all the files together in 1994. Much of the data was compiled long before that.
If more than 6 words were found, then instead of appearing on the page, the words are offered in the Flash Quiz/Flashcards format.

I'll probably eventually add this to the pages, but at this time, I think maybe keeping the pages smaller and faster-to-download might be better.
This list only appears if no priority words were found.