Title A guide to reading and writing Japanese : a comprehensive guide to the Japanese writing system / first edition compiled by Florence Sakade ; third edition revised by Kenneth Henshall, Christopher Seeley & Henk de Groot ; fourth edition revised by Janet Ikeda

Edition Fourth edition Published North Clarendon, Vermont : Tuttle Publishing, 2013 ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (355 pages) : illustrations Contents Frontcover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 Aim -- 2 This Book and the Modern Japanese Writing System -- 2.1 About the Characters Selected -- 2.2 How Characters Are Read in Japanese -- 2.3 Writing Characters -- 2.4 Romanization -- 2.5 Kana Signs and Combinations -- 3 Layout Details -- 4 Final Notes -- 5 Select Bibliography of Main Works Consulted for This Edition -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- The 1,006 ESSENTIAL CHARACTERS -- Grade One: Characters 1�80 -- Grade Two: Characters 81�240 -- Grade Three: Characters 241�440 Grade Four: Characters 441�640Grade Five: Characters 641�825 -- Grade Six: Characters 826�1,006 -- Section 2: The 2,136 General-Use Characters -- Radical Index -- Index of Readings -- Other Ebooks -- Backcover Summary This is an essential study tool for students seeking to learn Japanese and dramatically improve their kanji and kana. Students have been reading and writing Japanese for centuries, and they build their knowledge most successfully when they rely on a trusted resource. Today's most trusted--and readily available--resource is A Guide to Reading and Writing Japanese. This classic, best-selling learning and reference work, trusted by beginning and intermediate students learning Japanese since 1959, is now being offered as a fourth edition and is thoroughly revised and up-to-date. Having a knowledge of the full set of General Use characters, which this guide includes, will allow reading of any Japanese newspaper with ease and confidence. Key features on this revised edition include: The most recent changes prescribed by the Japanese Ministry of Education. Covers all the 2,136 characters in the 'General Use' / Joyo Kanji set. Detailing coverage of the 1,009 'Essential' Japanese characters arranged by grade for children in the first six years of grade school. The Kanji characters based more on their frequency in everyday language than the complexity of their composition Notes Includes indexes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 30, 2014) Subject Japanese language -- Writing. Japanese language -- Self-instruction Japanese language Japanese language -- Writing Genre/Form Electronic books Self-instruction Form Electronic book Author Sakade, Florence, editor Henshall, Kenneth, editor Seeley, Christopher, editor De Groot, Henk, editor Ikeda, Janet, editor ISBN 9781462914821 1462914829

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