Talk:Japanese/Kanji

Learning the kanji
A key interest of students of Japanese is, practically, how to learn the kanji. The current page both gives useful information about kanji (yomi, furigana), and, as of this revision (or rather the immediately preceding one), gives information on kanji study methods (there is also some information on testing of kanji: JLPT and Kanji Kentei). These are both useful and essential; perhaps they work well together on the same page, perhaps they would work better on separate pages.

Hope the “learning the kanji” section helps, and please feel free to elaborate and rearrange – this is a complex and important topic, and there are many methods and schools of thought (流派) on it!
 * —Nils von Barth (nbarth) (talk) 22:59, 6 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Great job! I did some copyediting on parts of the article. I'll have a closer look later. --Swift (talk) 02:40, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

Confused characters and calligraphy
I just undid a couple of edits which I felt might be nicer to leave a rationale for: --Swift (talk) 00:50, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I think these "confused characters" are essentially the same problem as addressed in "details". The "graphical" bit surely looks like that and the "vocabulary" could be added to it. As for the "semantics" and "sound" I don't quite see how these will help you remember whether a おっと is written 天 or 夫.
 * The picture seems way too big for the size of the corresponding section. It furthermore displays a highly cursive style that I wouldn't be surprised many Japanese would have trouble reading it with its liberal treatment of the strokes.
 * I think it makes most sense in terms of flow and usefulness to have the calligraphy section at the end of the study methods sub-sections.


 * Actually, after a bit of rewriting, I wonder if it might be best to merge the calligraphy and rote sections. --Swift (talk) 01:51, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

great work guys
Amazing job, too bad the German wiki doesn't have a clear page and/or lessons that are as complete and clear. The only thing I don't like is the insistence of including external links for learning resources, but I don't see an alternative unless there was suddenly an influx of talent. Keep up the good work!--Danthemango (talk) 09:08, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Kanji Chains
I would like to see someone write about learning Kanji by using Kanji chains. http://www.susi.ru/kanji/ChMethod.html Someone should decipher what this guy said, and dumb it down for me. It sounds potentially useful, but I don't quite understand it. 199.21.244.186 (discuss) 02:09, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

Link seems to be down
The link to the compound Kanji lookup tool seems to return a 404 185.252.81.106 (discuss) 13:23, 4 December 2023 (UTC)