Is this website helpful about Kanji?

[derick78b]

Hey,
As a new one in japanese words and language, I thought it would be easier if I learned the most used kanji. I found this website with the 500 most used kanji but some I've never seen. Do you think it's right?
1-500 of 2500 Kanji - Tangorin Online Japanese Dictionary
Thank you very much.

 

[ryuurui]

I would not recommend learning kanji out of context. You should learn them in sets or in context. This site is much better:

Speedanki: Kanji Flash Cards with JLPT Vocabulary

 

[derick78b]

I like that but, please, is there anyway where I can see the pronunciation? I can only see the kanji and the examples but EVEN the examples don't have the pronunciation.

Thank you.

 

[ryuurui]

Bottom-right corner check boxes...

 

[Coffeesan]

Derick do you know about 音読み おにょみ Onyomi and 訓読み くにょみ Kunyomi? Kanji usually have 1 of each but some have 2, theres some with loads which have absolutely sod all in relation to each other. I tried learning the 100 most widely used Kanji myself too, many websites have different ideas on the 100 most used. Also a lot of them are pretty pointless unless you live in a Japanese city.

Heres some (In my opinion) useful ones:-

私 - Watashi/Watakushi the primarily male 1st person pronoun
男 - Otoko/Otokono man/male/boy
彼女 - Kanojo she/her
彼 - Kare he/him
彼ら - Karera they
僕 - Boku male pronoun
人 - Hito person
月 - Gatsu basically what they use for month
時 - Ji/Jikan basically 'time' when your writing about what time it is
分 - Fun/Pun both pretty much mean minute, some numbers are fun, some are pun never found any rule but I'm sure Mike will
一 - Ichi
二 - Ni
三 - San
四 - Shi/Yon lots of people say only yon after 10 and others disagree just use yon as its more polite with shi being associated with death and all that
五 - Go
六 - Roku
七 - Shichi/Nana same as shi/yon
八 - Hachi looks just like Katakana 'ha' pain in the ***..
九 - Ku/Kyuu you see both written either is fine to be honest
十 - Ju/Jyuu ^ above

Theres also another number system but its archaic apparently and isnt used. Theres another one specifically for currency but again not useful unless you live in Japan. Bah that took a while switching between IME and english lol ill add in the Hiragana later if it'll help.

 

[Mike Cash]

You need to hit the "n" twice to avoid input errors.

"onyomi" gives 縺翫↓繧・∩
"onnyomi" gives the correct 縺翫ｓ繧医∩

This is the only way the input editor has of knowing whether an "n" is meant to represent 繧あ or is the start of some other syllable.

The "archaic" number system is still very much in use in daily life and it is necessary to know it and be able to use it.

I'm not aware of a number system used specifically for currency. Could you elaborate on that, please?

 

[derick78b]

Derick do you know about 音読み おにょみ Onyomi and 訓読み くにょみ Kunyomi? Kanji usually have 1 of each but some have 2, theres some with loads which have absolutely sod all in relation to each other. I tried learning the 100 most widely used Kanji myself too, many websites have different ideas on the 100 most used. Also a lot of them are pretty pointless unless you live in a Japanese city.

Heres some (In my opinion) useful ones:-

私 - Watashi/Watakushi the primarily male 1st person pronoun
男 - Otoko/Otokono man/male/boy
彼女 - Kanojo she/her
彼 - Kare he/him
彼ら - Karera they
僕 - Boku male pronoun
人 - Hito person
月 - Gatsu basically what they use for month
時 - Ji/Jikan basically 'time' when your writing about what time it is
分 - Fun/Pun both pretty much mean minute, some numbers are fun, some are pun never found any rule but I'm sure Mike will
一 - Ichi
二 - Ni
三 - San
四 - Shi/Yon lots of people say only yon after 10 and others disagree just use yon as its more polite with shi being associated with death and all that
五 - Go
六 - Roku
七 - Shichi/Nana same as shi/yon
八 - Hachi looks just like Katakana 'ha' pain in the ***..
九 - Ku/Kyuu you see both written either is fine to be honest
十 - Ju/Jyuu ^ above

Theres also another number system but its archaic apparently and isnt used. Theres another one specifically for currency but again not useful unless you live in Japan. Bah that took a while switching between IME and english lol ill add in the Hiragana later if it'll help.

Those I already know. Because of days of week and months, all of these kanjis I already know.

I've learned that Kunyomi is used when kanjis are alone and onnyomi when they're together. Obviously not always we can use that but most of them are like that.


But thank you very much.

P.S. I always get confused with "ha" and 八, but with time I'm going to get used to it.

Thanks.

 

[Toritoribe]

時 - Ji/Jikan basically 'time' when your writing about what time it is

時 is NEVER read "jikan". "Jikan" is the reading for the compound word 時間.

分 - Fun/Pun both pretty much mean minute, some numbers are fun, some are pun never found any rule but I'm sure

There IS a rule.
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