Ebook: Japanese Kanji & Kana: A Complete Guide to the Japanese Writing System

"One of the best modern texts. Highly recommended." --The Japan Times

Complete, compact and authoritative--this Japanese language book provides all the information needed to learn kanji and kana, including the 92 hiragana and katakana phonetic symbols (known collectively as Japanese Kana) and the 2,136 standard Joyo Kanji characters that every Japanese person learns in school. This new and thoroughly revised edition reflects recent changes made to the official Joyo kanji list by the Japanese government.

The kana and kanji are presented efficiently and systematically which helps you learn them quickly and retain what you have learned to improve your mastery of the Japanese language. The ability to read Japanese and write Japanese is an essential skill for any student and will build on their previous knowledge and improve their overall capacity to learn Japanese. A concise index allows you to look up the Kanji in three different ways (so the book also serves as a Japanese Kanji dictionary) and extra spaces are provided to allow you to practice writing Japanese.

Japanese Kanji and Kana contains:

• All 2,136 official Joyo kanji with readings and definitions.
• Characters are graded by their JLPT examination levels.
• Up to 5 useful vocabulary compounds for each kanji.
• Brush and pen cursive forms as well as printed forms.
• 19 tables summarizing key information about the characters.
• Kanji lookup indexes by radicals, stroke counts and readings.

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Tuttle Publishing, 2012. — 424 pages. — ISBN: 4805311169Long the leading book for learning Japanese Characters, Japanese Kanji and Kana is the resource you need to master the basic Japanese characters (kanji) and the hiragana and katakana syllabaries (known collectively as kana). This book features:All 2,136 official Joyo kanji with readings and meanings
Up to 5 useful compounds for each kanji
Brush & pen forms, too — not only printed form
19 convenient tables summarizing key info about the language
Easy access to all kanji via 3 indexes: by radical, stroke count, and readings.Complete, compact and essential, this is the resource you need in order to use and master kanji. This new edition reflects the recent update by the Japanese government of the official Joyo kanji list. Joyo means "daily use," and these 2,136 kanji are the ones that every Japanese person learns in public education. Japanese Kanji and Kana is perfect for the student who wants to get an A in Kanji and Kana class or for the more casual learner who has an interest in the Japanese Language. The kana and kanji are presented in an easy to understand format that will help you to learn Japanese quickly and retain what you have learned. A concise indexing section also allows the book to function as a Japanese dictionary and plenty of extra space is allowed for writing Kanji and writing Kana. All the characters are written clearly making reading kanji and reading kana effortless.