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Go covers 313 Japanese Kanji characters in Understanding Kanji Characters,
which is about one-third of the required number of characters that
an elementary school student in Japan should know. Go utilizes the
ancestral pictograms to reveal the meaning of the characters. The
book includes:
- Lesson A – Easy Kanji. A study of characters
whose meaning is easily derived from their ancestral forms.
- Lesson B – Not So Easy Kanji. A study of
characters whose meaning is not so easily explained even though
we know their ancestral forms.
- Lesson C – Difficult Kanji. A study of characters
whose meaning is difficult to explain because the character is
formed to aid pronunciation and does not use an ancestral pictogram.
These characters must simply be memorized.
- Dictionary of 313 Kanji characters, with definitions
and ancestral pictograms.
- List of 214 radicals with definitions and
ancestral pictograms.
This compact book is perfect for anyone interested
in learning the meaning of Kanji characters. It is suitable for
young students learning in after-school Japanese programs to seasoned
tourists traveling abroad. |
