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Sometimes part of a kanji indicates how it may be pronounced. Looking out for these patterns can give a boost to reading skills. Foreign learners often focus on meaning when they study kanji. At a ...

Yes, it’s true. Japanese has three completely separate sets of characters, called kanji, hiragana, and katakana, that are used in reading and writing. That first rendering of “Tokyo” is in kanji, with ...

Kanji are ideographs; this means that the whole character conveys a meaning or idea (whereas in the Roman alphabet system, letters are grouped together to make words). In the right-hand column are ...