- May 2, 2012
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Hi everyone,
I have 2 questions regarding studying kanji. I've already tried to find the answers on my own with little luck.
1st question: Each Kanji character has an ON and a KUN reading. Sometimes there can be many different readings for a character. I use http://jisho.org as my source for the readings of each character. So what I have been wondering, when you learn a new kanji, which reading's should you learn. It's impossible for me to learn every reading for every kanji. Should I just learn just the 1st reading listed under the kun and on? Are these the most common readings. Or should I learn the 1st and 2nd as well. Out of the 150 kanji that I've studied so far, I know the readings for some of them, but for some of them I only know the English meaning.
One thing about English, an A is an A no matter how you look at it.
2nd question: Under the kun and on readings, there are periods in some of the readings. What are these for? I'm not talking about the commas that separate each reading. I've been trying to find an answer for this.
Thanks,
Jeffrey
I have 2 questions regarding studying kanji. I've already tried to find the answers on my own with little luck.
1st question: Each Kanji character has an ON and a KUN reading. Sometimes there can be many different readings for a character. I use http://jisho.org as my source for the readings of each character. So what I have been wondering, when you learn a new kanji, which reading's should you learn. It's impossible for me to learn every reading for every kanji. Should I just learn just the 1st reading listed under the kun and on? Are these the most common readings. Or should I learn the 1st and 2nd as well. Out of the 150 kanji that I've studied so far, I know the readings for some of them, but for some of them I only know the English meaning.
One thing about English, an A is an A no matter how you look at it.
2nd question: Under the kun and on readings, there are periods in some of the readings. What are these for? I'm not talking about the commas that separate each reading. I've been trying to find an answer for this.
Thanks,
Jeffrey