.: Kanji : 漢字 :.

Well, I was thinking about “Kanjis”, there is a long time that I don’t study it, so I will try to do a review about it. Just to remind, the Japanese writing system uses three main scripts: Kanjis, Hiragana and Katakana. The Kanjis was “imported” from China and the Japanese got about 50.000 Kanjis. Fortunately, “The Japanese Ministry of Education designated 1,945 characters as Jooyoo Kanji, which are the most frequently used characters. It would be very helpful to learn all Jooyoo Kanji, but the basic 1,000 characters are sufficient to read about 90% of the kanji used in a newspaper (about 60% with 500 characters).” (source: http://japanese.about.com/library/blqow27.htm)

Ok, Let’s go, I will try to study 12 Kanjis each time I post a kanji study.

 I will follow the book “Shin Nihongo no Kiso”.

山 : やま : Yama

川 : かわ : Kawa

日: にち : Nichi

月 : がつ : Gatsu

田 : でん : Den

木 : ぼく : Boku

口 : くち : Kuchi

目 : もく : Moku

耳 : みみ: Mimi

人 : ひと : Hito

子 : こ : Ko

女 : おんな : Onna

Those kanjis are very simple, so I won't study they today, maybe next time.