Chapter 3  KANJI

Learning kanji is not as easy as learning katakana and hiragana. Most modern Japanese written for a general audience uses the kanji from a list called the joyokanji (common use Chinese characters). This list includes almost 2,000 characters, most of which have multiple readings. Altogether, there are a little over 4,000 approved readings for the characters in the joyokanji list. 

Here, some basic kanji are introduced in the following order:

1. Pictographs: characters which look like what they represent

2. Numbers

3. Ideographs: characters that represent an idea

4. Complex Characters (typically pictograph + ideograph)

5. Kanji composed with Radicals
   1. Roof   
   2. Water
   
   3. Tree
   
   4. Hand
   
   5. Road
   
   6. Sun
   
   7. Rain
   
   8. Fire
   
   9. Person
   
   10. Woman
   
   11. Soil
   
   12. Metal
   
   13. Grass


6. Appendix
: Kanji from Step Up Nihongo (SUN) textbooks 1, 2, 3 & 4 (Lessons 3-100)

kanji from L2 & 3 kanji from L4 kanji from L5 kanji from L6
kanji from L7 & 8 kanji from L9 & 10 kanji from L11 kanji from L12
kanji from L13 & 14 kanji from L15 &16 kanji from L17 & 18 kanji from L19 & 20
kanji from L21 kanji from L22 kanji from L23 kanji from L24
kanji from L25 kanji from L26 kanji from L27 kanji from L28
kanji from L29 kanji from L30 kanji from L31 kanji from L32 & 33
kanji from L34 kanji from L35 kanji from L36 kanji from L37
kanji from L38 kanji from L39 kanji from L40 kanji from L41
kanji from L42 kanji from L43 & 44 kanji from L45 kanji from L46
kanji from L47 kanji from L48 & 49 kanji from L50 kanji from L51 & 52
kanji from L53 kanji from L54 & 55 kanji from L56 kanji from L57
kanji from L58 kanji from L59 kanji from L60 kanji from L61
kanji from L62 kanji from L63 kanji from L64 kanji from L65
kanji from L66 kanji from L67 kanji from L68 kanji from L69
kanji from L70 kanji from L71 kanji from L72 kanji from L73
kanji from L74 kanji from L75 kanji from L76 & 77 kanji from L78
kanji from L79 kanji from L80 kanji from L81 kanji from L82
kanji from L83 kanji from L84 kanji from L85 kanji from L86
kanji from L87 & 88 kanji from L89 kanji from L90 kanji from L91 & 92
kanji from L93 kanji from L94 kanji from L95 kanji from L96
kanji from L97 kanji from L98 & 99 kanji from L100


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