Kanji Fast Finder

by Matthews, Laurence

• ISBN13: 9780804833936
• ISBN10: 0804833931
• Edition: Bilingual
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-15
• Publisher: Tuttle Pub

Summary

"Kanji Fast Finder includes all 1,945 general use kanji prescribed by the Japanese Ministry of Education. Printed thumb-index marks allow easy access to any of the characters on the basis of letter shapes rather than etymological radicals. A large font size facilitates rapid scanning. The core English meaning, Chinese derivative, and native Japanese readings are given for each kanji. "Kanji Fast Finder is also an essential reference for those with a casual interest in the written language.

Author Biography

Laurence Matthews has worked as a university lecturer, as a research manager in an industrial design department, and in Japan as an airport consultant. In this work he uses his skills in design and the structured presentation of information.

Table of Contents

Printed thumb-index marks allow rapid access to any of the characters on the basis of letter shapes rather than etymological radicals. The font size is large enough to facilitate rapid scanning. For each kanji are listed the core English meaning, 'on' (Chinese-derived) and 'kun' (native Japanese) readings, stroke count and radical.

Covers all 1,945 'general use' kanji prescribed by the Japanese Ministry of Education, which is also the corpus covered by the revised edition of A Guide to Reading and Writing Japanese (03A) and the Kanji Cards I and II (1995 and 1998, to be reissued in 03B and 04A).

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