How many Kanji do you know?

[mika_r]

i know like... 20 xD

but I started my self-teched classes 2 weeks ago!

 

[-Rudel-]

I can offically say that I know over 100 kanji if I see them.

But when it comes to memorization when writing, I know about 40 of those.

 

[chin]

hmmmm? maybe it should be ammended one more time. I think the first choice should be zero since I am sure that some people do not know any kanji! I myself know only about 150.

How can that be possible...
常用漢字はどのぐらいでしょう。

日本人なら、１０００を越すはずですが。
そうとは考えられませんか？

 

[epigene]

How can that be possible...
常用漢字はどのぐらいでしょう。
日本人なら、１０００を越すはずですが。
そうとは考えられませんか？

It's because most of the posters on this thread are studying Japanese and not native speakers.

 

[Togii]

Hmm.. I can recognize maybe 500-600.. but if I was asked to write them out, I'd be in trouble. XD
I'm teaching myself with fun Slime Forest, though, so my kanji skills are quickly outgrowing my skills in.. pretty much everything else

 

[Thorham]

Guess I know about 50, not that many, I know. Just 1895 more to go! Well at least it's more than the number of kana I know I only know about five or six of those, believe it or not...

 

[hideway]

At this moment I can recognize about 100 I guess.

I'm saving my vote until I reach 1000.

 

[Haruspex]

Guess I know about 50, not that many, I know. Just 1895 more to go! Well at least it's more than the number of kana I know I only know about five or six of those, believe it or not...

Wait.... shouldn't be the the way around?

 

[Thorham]

Wait.... shouldn't be the the way around?

Normally, yes. This was just an experiment to see how easily I could memorize them at a rate of ten a day. I think I studied about 70, and I can still recognize about 50, so that's not too bad. I just wanted to know what I would get myself into, if I would start to learn Japanese.

 

[kameron]

Atleast 500 but no more than 750 and reading them is easier than writing for sure. I would love to know 1000 by December, I'm sure it won't be too hard if I can put in the effort.

Don't forget the library is your friend! As much as I hate it, there's nothing there to distract me from studying, so, it's a good place to study kanji I think.

 

[ハダカ]

Yeah right, looks like some people forgetting role of kanji ^^ For identifying word they're needed (russian grammatics again ). Some folks not understand this but kanji is really necessary in nihongo because:
1) Traditions ("I must ruin ### year old custom? No way! It's too boring for me") (or something like that )
2) Nature Japanese unlove to all new ("I better write this and this like 中国 and 愛, like I did all my life, then like ちゅうごく and あい. How I should know then, when and which Chuugoku and Ai person wants to say about? Why should I invent smth new? Its non-Japanese style ")
3) Japanese people love their callygraphy. And they love to boast with this skill So think: what they will boast with w/o Kanji?

 

[Haruspex]

I lost track of how many kanji I know. I roughly knew the number, but after trying a reader book I learnt loads of readings without fully learning the kanji with all of its readings.

 

[kameron]

I lost track of how many kanji I know. I roughly knew the number, but after trying a reader book I learnt loads of readings without fully learning the kanji with all of its readings.

Ah I hate learning kanji the old fashioned way ><
Stroke order, chinese reading, japanese reading, write 1000 times.
Your method sounds good.:122:

 

[Veespin]

Reading Kanji: about 900
Actually writing kanji from memory: probably about 300 to 400

Recently I have been slowing down on my kanji studying, but since I read Japanese all the time, I'm not really "slowing down".

 

[ハダカ]

Should ask Ma Yuan how many he knows lol

 

[justin]

I use to know alot of them, but I forgot so many of them.

 

[Jericho Desu]

I agree 100% with MtoM - that dictionary is awesome and well worth the price. I have two copies of it, actually.
TZed9, I've seen pictures of a kanji dictionary which comes in multiple volumes (big thick books too) that covers 50,000+ kanji.

THERE ARE OVER 50,000 KANJI!!?? My God... Well I'm a total beginner so I know no Kanji whats so ever, I'm still learning Hiragana/Katakana via the game 'Slime Forest' (its pretty helpful actually). But I heard you only need to learn about 2000 Kanji for modern life in Japan, so I'm not going to aim so high as friggen 50k.

 

[Davey]

I can now write about 170-200 kanji, and I think I can read about 300-400 kanji.

I hope to reach at least 1000 kanji by the end of this year... it's starting to get more interested and patterns are showing.

 

[Haruspex]

THERE ARE OVER 50,000 KANJI!!?? My God... Well I'm a total beginner so I know no Kanji whats so ever, I'm still learning Hiragana/Katakana via the game 'Slime Forest' (its pretty helpful actually). But I heard you only need to learn about 2000 Kanji for modern life in Japan, so I'm not going to aim so high as friggen 50k.

AFAIK its 30.000. Also, people who take the Kanji Kentei 1 test know 6000 kanji among other things. And people are supposed to learn 1945 until the end of High School if im correct. So its not impossible, 2000 that is. But that 6000 would take long years of practice.

 

[Arlet]

Lol, I only know one
But I can't write it down, I only know how to pronounce it

 

[Clawn]

Sadly, I know a measly 15. But I hope to up that to maybe 40-50 by the time summer rolls around.

 

[ハダカ]

What do i know now? ^^ In recognizing (mostly 立体忍者話劇天誅-like) maybe not so small amount (i've recently learned things like 旨、意味、悪者、千年殺し、木の葉 etc. from conversations with Japanese via Skype). But in actual writing... hm... りったいにんじゃはなしげきてんちゅう is the most cool thing I know ^^ 悪い外人を誅せよ！

 

[tokapi]

More than I need for Japanese language

 

[Sirius2B]

1800... today!!

Little by little...

 

[ハダカ]

お前は、日本語の上手いね＾＾" | Right??!