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The Japanese Kanji Kentei
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The Japanese Kanji Kentei
When studying for the Japanese kanji tests, it is important to write kanji as well as read them. When writing kanji you are forced to iamgeine and recall the structure of the kanji, whereas reading the kanji only makes you able to recognise it not reproduce it. Most kanji have certain characteristic points that you will learn unconsciously and use to identify the kanji. Like, when you look at a car you know it is a car, not a house, but be able to recognise a car doesn't mean that you are able to draw it afterwards.
Kanji practice sheets
For this purpose I have developed some practice sheets that can be used to train the first 1000 kanji. There are six levels, and each level has an overview sheet and a practice sheet.
- The overview sheet has all kanji for that level listed, each on one line, with some example words. The idea is that you first scan through this sheet and see if you recognise all the kanji, if there are some kanji you don't recognise maybe you can use the example words to recall them.
- The practice sheet lists all the example words again but in a random order. On one line is written four example words including the reading in kana, but the kanji that you are going to practice has been substituted by an underscore. Underneath the correct word is written in blue, so you can use a transparent blue plastic sheet to cover the corect words while you write your guess.
I have chosen relatively few example words, but enought to cover the most common readings and meanings of the kanji.
List of all 1006 kanji on one page
Problematic kanji
It often happens when you read a Japanese text, that you accidently mistake one kanji for another, either because they look alike, are pronounced the same or simply because their meanings are closely related. Examples of each group are:
- 丘 兵 the kanji look similar
- 状 条 both are pronounced じょう, or
- 場 所 both mean place
The following pages will take you through some groups of kanji that I have found were hard to distinguish. Some historical information might help you to get a better udnerstanding of why the kanji look the way they do.
Feel free to send me your comments or suggestions to other groups of kanji.
- Hands in the top
These kanji all have a radical, or part of a radical, in the top that means hands. One of the difficult things to remember is the number of horiizontal strokes in the hand radical, and how the vertical strokes intersect the other strokes. See the kanji!
- Three types of skin
There are three similar looking radicals that are formed like an upside down L, with 又 attached. and placed in the right side of the kanji. Here are all the kanji in each of the groups. See the kanji!
- Various other groups
Here are about 50 other groups that I haven't sorted. Each group has two or more kanji that are easy to mistake for eachother. See the kanji!
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